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Kitty Yonker Derian
Sparks, NV · 23 days ago

Look to the HISTORY OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION. People stood in bread lines for an entire day for BREAD, its why the phrase A CHICKEN IN EVERY POT" FDR. FRANKLIN DELANOR. ROOSEVELT STATRED SOCIAL SECURITY FOR THE WORKERS WHO HAD NOTHING AFTER WW2 it was never a hand out everyone since the. has EARNED ALL OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS it was never ever , meant to FUND THE GOVERNMENT. OR THE PRESIDENT. IT IS OURS, WE PAID INTO THE FUND FOR DECADES, for retirement for medical. for OUR NEEDS not to be stolen by the government or used to fund wars, that's a lie that THE WELL IS DRY FOR FOOD BENEFITS? That's a big fat lie too, that Republicans can spend 60 million on a Halloween party 40 BILLION on a forgien country that desperately needs help? 900 MILLION ON A BALLROOM? who knows how much was spent on renovation of the Lincoln bathroom or how much ybe DEMITIO LITION OF THE HISTORIC EAST WING.cost the taxpayers? THAT IS. WASTE. FRAUD AND VERY MUCH ABUSE OF THE TAXPAYERS MONEY

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Betty Kloss
Hamilton, OH · 22 days ago

That just who Trump is. Nothing matters to him but him.

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D. Sgustipated.
Rancho Santa Fe, CA · 24 days ago

Here’s just a few reasons why taxes are benefiting the American people. Roads, bridges, parks, fire departments, police departments, social security, and Medicare. Conservative means never asking how or why.

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Thomas Payne
Medford, OR · 23 days ago

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Jackway Randy
DeWitt, MI · 10 days ago

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Douglas j Edwards
West Union, OH · 22 days ago

TAX THE RICH AMERICA

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Crystal Conerly
Ponchatoula, LA · 24 days ago

we didn't have subways b4 1913 the roads were made of dirt. We took horses everywhere we went bc there was no need for gas. We did not have all those branches of military either. They still got paid bc of taxes

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Bruce Robertson
St. Petersburg, FL · 22 days ago

Back then, almost all the US government's money came from tarriffs. Then progressives in both parties came up with income taxes in the form of the 16th Amendment. It must have seemed like a good idea at the time.

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ipad1356
Rutherfordton, NC · 22 days ago

The government back then was largely supported by tariffs

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Gutz7
Raymondville, TX · 24 days ago

that's why all members of congress is worth multiple millions of dollars on a hundred thousand dollar salary

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Floyd Francis
Morehead, KY · 23 days ago

Without taxes, it would be harder for politicians to enrich themselves with your money.

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Tania Trevino
22 days ago

haven't u ever wondered how these politicians who make $200k a yr live in huge mansions, lavish vacas that cost more than a new car, private jets, designer everything, $100k cars ECT...duh that's where our taxes go. you don't get $10+ million in a cpl yrs making $200k a yr with a family and a home and bills...so yea....that's why they extort us. to fund their lavish lives

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AMERICA 76
Independence, MO · 19 days ago

Greed

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McKraken
Truckee, CA · 21 days ago

Jekyll Island. Start there. A secret meeting took place on Jekyll Island in November 1910 involving a small group of influential bankers and policymakers, whose discussions eventually led to the creation of the Federal Reserve System. The group included Senator Nelson Aldrich and representatives from major financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan and Rockefeller interests. To avoid public and press scrutiny, they disguised the meeting as a duck-hunting trip.

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Jared
Mayer, AZ · 18 days ago

Tariffs. Also we weren't funding lgbtqia+ sesame street for Bangledesh children.

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William Kane
Kingsland, GA · 24 days ago

Yup tariffs paid for everything! The dimacrat party decided to eliminate tariffs and tax everything!!

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BRAD IsHear
Columbia, MO · 23 days ago

Much of our taxes is used to fund the lifestyles of the political class. That is why they enter politics making a couple hundred thousand & leave muti millionaires.

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Keith S
Royersford, PA · 19 days ago

Do you know why, tariffs!

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P J
Taylorsville, UT · 22 days ago

Most elected officials are ripping us off

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TheRock
Dayton, OH · 22 days ago

corrupt politicians

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Nora Gillikin
Beaufort, NC · 24 days ago

What happened to those days. Bring them back!

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James Klekowski
Chicago, IL · 22 days ago

Because billionaires and corporations buy their politicians early and often!

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Jeremy Cobain
Neptune Beach, FL · 18 days ago

to make politicians rich. duh

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Jeremiah Groovy
22 days ago

The money keeps flowing towards the rich. Once the money finally stops flowing upward the country will collapse. Greed destroys nation's.

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Huey Davis
Covington, LA · 19 days ago

We had so much gold then. Not so much anymore!

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Katherine Hubbard Kelly
Jacksonville, FL · 19 days ago

We shouldn’t

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triggerman2
Kirksey, KY · 22 days ago

If you privately invested what you pay in taxes. Everybody would be millionaires instead of congress

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Kevin O
Groton, CT · 20 days ago

because the democrats love spending other people's money

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bluegrass70
Covington, KY · 19 days ago

it was called tariffs. main source of federal income.

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Carmen Traverso
Middleburg, FL · 23 days ago

correct 👍👍👍👍

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Kilgore Trout
Compton, CA · 20 days ago

it was President Hoover that coined the term a chicken in every pot

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Ron Wallace
Kenosha, WI · 21 days ago

people had no healthcare no jobs no food unless you grew it , 100 people sat out of a business to hope for a job only 1 got that day a whole family lived in 1 house 4 or 5 families , you traded eggs and other farm things for other things u lived off the land as a farmer that is gone now , u paid taxes at store and for your farm and tolls there were barely any roads in 1913 , brick roads and mud holes with hay down or tar and gravel the rich were mega rich thats what repubs want again carnage, Vanderbilt, ford, Winchester,

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RFsocal
Riverside, CA · 6 days ago

Back then 97% of the population were working by the age of 12 if not sooner Everything was relative to income and only 1% bought things they really didn’t need. The industrial age was just starting and WW1 was just ahead. No welfare programs to create a class of lazy nothings and no freebies handed out by the low class D’rats just to buy votes.

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Mch7978
Sylva, NC · 22 days ago

so we can pay for scumbags to work the system..

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big Dee
Birds Landing, CA · 22 days ago

The Democrats got involved and social program started and they needed income tax to cover social programs

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James Jones
Calhoun, TN · 8 days ago

Extorted? FDR sold the US citizens into slavery. It's called the Federal Income tax. It did not exist before FDR. He went to the Rothchilds Bank(Now the Federal Reserve) for a loan to get the US back out of Bankruptcy. The bankruptcy still exists in the form of a Federal Deficit and to pay the loan back it's called Federal Income tax. Don't pay it and see what the "slave owners" have to say about it. Slavery because we are not paid a United States Constitutional "legal currency" such as gold or silver and being handed "promissory" noted called "dollar bills."

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Neil Jones
Stuart, FL · 10 days ago

it was in place to make the rich even richer......THE ROCKEFELLERS, ROTHSCHILDS, MORGANS, GETTY'S, AND ALL UNDER THE FEDERAL RESERVE.

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Rick Bryant
Kingston, OK · 7 days ago

We Americans back then we're not giving out welfare, snap and trying to support the rest of the world

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Ben Dover
22 days ago

that's odd, that is the exact year the federal reserve was created and the federal reserve act which gives the federal reserve immunity from audit. the federal reserve has nothing to do with the fed government and they have been enslaving and robbing Americans for decades.

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Sherry Humphreys
Rockford, IL · 24 days ago

Because our government stopped serving us and using us as their cashcow to fill all their demented powertripping dreams of power greed and turning to criminal activities to line their pockets to become millionaires off the backs of the people. Then trying to destroy the constitution that protects us from a corrupt government

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Steven Horvath
Downers Grove, IL · 22 days ago

Because they can.

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Benjamin Anonuevo IV
Marionville, MO · 7 days ago

tariffs do work😆

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Barbara Glaze
Atlanta, GA · 22 days ago

We pay politicans to waste our wealth on other countries who hate us.

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Guest
10 days ago

racist hateful soulless bigots

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Brenda Spivey
Kemp, TX · 9 days ago

imagine that

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Jarimiah warner
Ukiah, CA · 9 days ago

said the guy who does illegal gas work and gets arrested

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David Graber
Oklahoma City, OK · 24 days ago

Well, they’re talking about the Snapp benefits now the government asked for list of all Snapp reciprocates! 29 states gave him a list 21 states said no in fact two of them are suing the government for even asking! What they found so far Snapp benefits were going out to 5000 people who are dead. They found one guy receiving snap benefits from six different states.! They just started digging fraud and waste and this is the only country in the world or you have $1100 iPhone yet you think you need 300 and some dollars every month extra! I bet you they all have cable too and I haven’t had cable in 20 years! And I still get more than 40 stations for free!

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Mikey Mat
Greenwood, LA · 2 days ago

Because your paying for 20 million illegals and 40 million Leeching Americans on Snap, Welfare, and LIning Democratic politicians pockets with Trillions of dollars of overseas programs that dont exist!

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Willard Salyers
Pahrump, NV · 2 days ago

because we keep adding hogs to the trough like ICE and the list goes on.

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look away
3 days ago

the citizens allowed that

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Sandy McKee
Redding, CA · 7 days ago

Greedy lawmakers

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Sean Caldwrll
New Brighton, PA · 10 days ago

It just about the crooks

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Tidy Manjytis
Casper, WY · 10 days ago

Let us pick what we want to pay into. If the government wants the money, make them really sell it.

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Jim Szaloy
Tucumcari, NM · 11 days ago

Income tax is actually illegal except in a time of national emergency. That's the way the founding fathers set it up. It was enacted then has never been repealed

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Pete Wolf
York, NE · 11 days ago

because you let it continue!!!

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tbone3276
Barnstable, MA · 11 days ago

Dumbacratic corruption happened!

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Right is Right
Canyon, TX · 12 days ago

The Makers have had enough of the takers.

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Ed Selvick
Scottsdale, AZ · 12 days ago

So the politicians can get rich