Let us go back to 1909, when the American people were offered a plan for destroying nations that had been formulated again by a filthy degenerate named Mordechai, alias Karl Marx. Now it's true that the promoters hired a few journalists, liberal professors, and other intellectual prostitutes, to prove conclusively that the proposed income tax could never under any circumstances exceed four per cent. on the income of millionaires and could never affect anyone else, for the obvious reason that no federal government could possibly spend so much money. But the point is that a majority of the American people -- the inheritors of a free government based on the premise that government must be limited to essentials and must be tied down by the chains of a stringent constitution restraining the exercise of all powers except those deemed absolutely necessary for national defense -- those American people believed that hogwash. In effect, what the promoters were telling them in wheedling tones was, 'Come, little boobies, put your heads into the noose and we'll do you lots of good.' And the boobous little boobies stuck their necks into the noose, and so the country is now under the regime of the great White Slave Act, and that's why we are where we are today.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The author claims a plan to destroy nations was proposed in 1909 by Marx and promoted by hired intellectuals to sell an income tax. He argues Americans lost faith in limited government.
- In plain terms
- A tax plan was sold to Americans using false promises and hired voices.
- What can you take from it?
- Intellectuals can be hired to sell harmful policies.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do intellectuals influence policy?
- Is the income tax a betrayal?
Another view
The historical claims about Marx and the income tax are presented without evidence.
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