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Re:US lawmakers vote to cut food stamp benefits from 2014 by maratd on Friday September 20, 2013 @05:46PM (#6420699)
> Yeah, we have historically low tax rates for the modern era.

This is false. The charts frequently used to support this all conveniently exclude the 19th century.

Yeah, after socialism became a fad, we began to tax the living daylights out of anything that moved and had money. Go back to the 19th century and you'll see a different story.

Re:US lawmakers vote to cut food stamp benefits from 2014 by gte910h on Saturday September 21, 2013 @10:08AM (#6422963)
>> modern era. > exclude the 19th century.

As they should