Commerce was a tyranny that Jefferson warned about. We've always had
tariffs and other taxes. The idea that the USA is supposed to be an
unregulated commercial Utopia is a robber baron myth.

On 5 Sep 2004 13:24:31 -0700, (RHF) wrote:

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The last thing the corporations want is for the population to know
what the founding principles of this country are.

This country was started to provide a place where government and
commerce served the people. Not the other way around.

DAVID- You have it slighly distorted:

This country was started to provide a place where government
served the people. (For the People, By the People, Of the People)

This country was started to provide a place where the people
could participate in commerce freely. (Without unnecessary or
excessive government interference; be it regulation or taxes.)

~ RHF
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