Manifest Destiny

Obama and Madison

Heather Cox Richardson makes observations on Obama’s recent speech at his foundation’s Democracy Forum.  You can read it here.  And you can read my reaction below. There is the pluralism and there’s chaos.  We are closer to chaos than to pluralism. James Madison lived in a time when the issues of the day revolved around trade and agriculture.  Some…
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Taxation and Manifest Destiny

From early on, the tax policy of this country was, “You need a bridge? Great! Let me sell this lot to Mr. Jones…okay, here’s your bridge appropriation.” We literally got used to getting things for nothing.