Slavery

Run time: 02:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn14RwuJJRg   Posted on YouTube: June 27, 2010 By YouTube Member: Barber4Congress Views on YouTube: 72042   Posted on DU: June 30, 2010 By DU Member: populistdriven Views on DU: 397

 
Rick Barber is a moron. Lincoln created the income tax to pay for the civil war.

the free meal, medical care, that our brave men and women need now, because they sacrificed so that Mr. Barber could practice speeches with men in costumes.

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Late Update: As commenters have pointed out (and indeed, a history buff like myself is ashamed to admit he didn't think of it first), Lincoln was a lifelong champion of the traditional Whig policies of "internal improvements" -- that is levying taxes, usually through tariffs, to fund infrastructure projects throughout the country, and incorporating the principle of central banking. In addition to prosecuting the Civil War, Lincoln's administration put all of those policies into effect, as his Republican Party's political coalition was built upon the foundation of the northern Whigs.

Late Late Update: Let's make this whole thing even funnier. Rick Barber, who has declared that the income tax is a tyrannical act that forces Americans to spy on themselves for the government, has invoked the name and image of Abraham Lincoln -- who implemented the first income tax in this country's history, in order to pay for the Civl War.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/rick-barbers-new-ad-features-lincoln-condemning-slavery-of-taxes-and-welfare-video.php

Sounds more like something that should be on Teabagger's Underground. What is wrong with paying our bills? That is what taxes are and nothing more.

seems simple enough.