How Was Government Funded before 1913 and IRS?

[Pericles]

what kind of life did people live before 1913?

A damn sight better than 98% of the rest of the world.

 

[pcosmar]

Can you be more specific? How much did women work?
What percentage of women worked?

Of course Women worked

 

[pcosmar]

So before 1920, there was no automotive industry, and we're surprised we didn't need the IRS to fund government?

Nope no streets or business either.


The city was rebuilt without FEMA too.

 

[Becker]

Nope no streets or business either.

what percentage of population had cars?
you want your streets and busineses to be like those of the time?

The city was rebuilt without FEMA too.

you want your cities "built" to standards of those days?

oh, you notice how many (few) people are walking in those films? How many of them are immigrants?

 

[aGameOfThrones]

Nope no streets or business either.


The city was rebuilt without FEMA too.

BTW, weren't there like 20 million Ford Model Ts built?

 

[pcosmar]

How many of them are immigrants?

Just guessing. Quite a few.. Most possibly.

Give it up Glen,, you're trolling.

 

[Becker]

BTW, weren't there like 20 million Ford Model Ts built?

was there? oh, you mean prior to competition, right?

 

[Becker]

Just guessing. Quite a few.. Most possibly.

Give it up Glen,, you're trolling.

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you don't know, because the context of population destroys your comparison.

there's plenty of underdeveloped and underpopulated US cities and counties that'll give you the 1910 experience.

Perhaps you can tell me what is so admirable and desireable of the 1906 lifestyle depicted in the film? Slow cars? Everybody wearing suits? Wide streets? What exactly am I missing today that's available on the film?

 

[pcosmar]

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What exactly am I missing today that's available on the film?

Liberty.

 

[Becker]

Liberty.

I knew you had no specific answer, sorry, I must be blind, I'm not seeing it. If that's liberty, I'm glad I don't have it.

 

[Anti Federalist]

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you don't know, because the context of population destroys your comparison.

there's plenty of underdeveloped and underpopulated US cities and counties that'll give you the 1910 experience.

Perhaps you can tell me what is so admirable and desireable of the 1906 lifestyle depicted in the film? Slow cars? Everybody wearing suits? Wide streets? What exactly am I missing today that's available on the film?

The ability to walk down that street without 1,000,000 replicas of that camera watching your every move.

I'd trade all the "convenience" of modern life to have that back.

That which was lost just in my own lifetime.

The ability to live without being under 24/7 surveillance.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I knew you had no specific answer, sorry, I must be blind, I'm not seeing it. If that's liberty, I'm glad I don't have it.

Well, that's how most people think.

The question is: by what authority do you claim to have, to make that decision for me?

 

[Anti Federalist]

The city was rebuilt without FEMA too.

So was Galveston.

And Chicago.

And Anchorage.

 

[Anti Federalist]

14,689,520

That's the total number of Model Ts produced.

 

[heavenlyboy34]

I knew you had no specific answer, sorry, I must be blind, I'm not seeing it. If that's liberty, I'm glad I don't have it.

Liberty is inconvenient sometimes, and you have to put up with a lot of nonsense, but it's better than being a slave.

 

[Lafayette]

lol

 

[Becker]

The ability to walk down that street without 1,000,000 replicas of that camera watching your every move.

oh, so the LACK of people being able to afford cameras is what you call "liberty" and "prosperity"?

I'd trade all the "convenience" of modern life to have that back.

What 3rd world country doesnt allow you to?

That which was lost just in my own lifetime.

The ability to live without being under 24/7 surveillance.

I beg to differ, there are plenty of cities, even in the US, where electricity is too expensive to have surveillance. You said you'd trade the convenience for that? Nothing is stopping you from living in an city where electricity is used for other purposes. (just ask the Amish)

I don't live under surveillance, the few hours of the day where I am seen, is of my own choosing.

 

[Becker]

Liberty is inconvenient sometimes, and you have to put up with a lot of nonsense, but it's better than being a slave.

ok then, you take liberty, I'll take convenience, and safety.

 

[Becker]

Well, that's how most people think.

The question is: by what authority do you claim to have, to make that decision for me?

What decision did I make for you or am stopping you from making?

 

[heavenlyboy34]

ok then, you take liberty, I'll take convenience, and safety.

If you prefer the comfort of slavery and tyranny to the animating contest of liberty, why are you on RPFs? You are directly at odds with RP's philosophy.