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Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.
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Actually Britain was more powerful and prosperous. We didn't come into power until after WW1 and more importantly WW2.
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We had absolutely no national debt...
We had the largest middle class in the world...
and Mom stayed home to raise the kids.
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I'm sure Mom was glad to raise the kids, when she was barred from taking real jobs and wasn't allowed to vote. Also, we didn't have military spending. If we kept our defense spending at the same levels, Mexico would be able to invade us today. Modern technology increased the power of centralized government, and those that didn't embrace some of that organization got crushed. We won WW2 because we had organization and centralized power. 1908 has past and we are never going back. Competing in the modern world requires a different system than what we had 100 years ago.