ALEXANDER HAMILTON: TAXAHOLIC! Dec 27, 2016
Commenting on the decline of true liberalism, libertarian giant Ralph Raico wrote the following shortly before he recently passed away, “In America, the liberal country par excellence, the chief aim [of classical liberals] was to fend off incursions of government power pushed by Alexander Hamilton and his centralizing successors…” Profound and deleterious consequences of the actions of that damn taxaholic continue to haunt Americans to this day. As America’s first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton’s policy of taxing whiskey sparked the so-called Whiskey Rebellion. “The tax was resisted by farmers in the western frontier regions who were long accustomed to...
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