Negative.
This country was founded by the colonies’ Uber rich, because they didn’t want to pay taxes. Mission accomplished.
Seriously only a handful of the founding fathers were based, or even liberal.
The most powerful founding fathers were obscenely wealthy slave owners who used their power in government to keep the wealthy on top, reduce taxes, and even personally stop attempts to end slavery.
The avg American pays ~40% of their earned income to taxes either through income tax or all the other taxes that are payed day to day
Yes…the average American pays ~40% of their income in taxes. The uber rich Americans pay much much less, if anything at all.
The magical world where wealth accumulation isn’t income because reasons.
Because thw ealthy make the rules.
The rich dont because for decades conservatives successfully convinced half the population that if we feed the rich some more oats, itll trickle down to the rest of us. Well guess what? The only thing that trickles down from an overfed horse is piss and horseshit.
fuck the founding fathers
No, fuck the people that take the founding fathers as infallible - when it suits their argument. The FF did what they did, and at the time it was groundbreaking, but they didn’t count on populist stupidity taking what they wrote and amplifying the worst parts of it ad nauseam.
And DEFINITELY couldn’t have predicted the route modern technology would take us
They’d have thought it was sweet as fuck until they realized we knew disaster was coming and did fuck all to stop it.
Not even the things that would still make us money.
I think they call that necrophilia and is generally frowned upon
Them powdered wigs get me excited in my britches
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duh. saying i’m not a fan of the founding american government doesn’t mean i’m pro 1700’s british monarchy
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What moldy brainlet saw this and thought it relates to them?
The US has daddy issues.
Some of us are, but most of us aren’t. DC citizens have been doing it for so long they put it on their license plates.
I live in NYC. I’m nowhere near England, as far as I can tell. I would love to visit England one day, though. Much love to any Londoners or English people reading this.
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A sepia-tone picture of 3 of the founding fathers of America: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the former two of which are seated and the third is standing around a small circular table covered in paperwork, quills and ink.
Over the image is the text:
"We are now living in a country
our founding fathers fought to escape"
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