Posted by Dinah on June 28, 2012, at 17:31:28
In reply to Re: Welcome USA To Socialism Healthcare Bill Passed » Dinah, posted by europerep on June 28, 2012, at 17:22:40
You don't know me one bit. And you know what? That's perfectly ok with me, particularly after your post about Phillipa.
I happened to be alive during the ninety percent marginal tax rates and stagflation of the Carter presidency. 16-18% interest rates! I thought Reagan's decrease of the top marginal tax rate to 50% or so was fabulous. The later reductions to already low rates I saw more as pandering to the electorate. I seem to remember one under the Clinton administration that I particularly disapproved of.
Keep thinking whatever you like.
"I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent."
Source: Letter of Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, March 13, 1789.
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