tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11148260.post111560021900666870..comments2023-09-06T08:56:14.610-04:00Comments on Eidelblog: Beware, the tax glutton comethUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11148260.post-1115690546107064412005-05-09T22:02:00.000-04:002005-05-09T22:02:00.000-04:00Well I hoped you were being sarcastic, heh. It's l...Well I hoped you were being sarcastic, heh. It's like when one of my best friends and I talk, when occasionally I'll say some screwball things to play devil's advocate. He once thought I really have flipped and turned socialist!<BR/><BR/>"Glutton" was meant as a pun, since Detroit wants to tax food. Taxes, of course, have been around forever. I think they started earlier than the 1940s, and even before FDR. In one of my <A HREF="http://eidelblog.blogspot.com/2005/03/now-this-is-times-we-know.html" REL="nofollow">entries</A>, I pointed out that Hoover was doing the same thing FDR did: tax hikes and massive spending increases. Of all the things, FDR had campaigned on a platform that libertarians and (true) conservatives would agree with:<BR/><BR/>"He ran on a Democratic Party political platorm that most people in this room, I would suggest, would have supported. He thought that the federal government was intruding too much in local and state affairs. The platform said that government spending had to be cut, the budget had to be balanced, and regulation had to be reduced. And that the United States had to be sound, upon a solid currency backed by gold. Of course, when he took office in March of 1933, Franklin Roosevelt began to implement policies that were exact opposite of that."Perry Eidelbushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09707615907666584863noreply@blogger.com