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Thread #123266 Message #2712280
Posted By: Richard Bridge
30-Aug-09 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
Subject: BS: A nation founded on injustice?
It occurs to me to mention (in the context of the injustice of the US health market) that the US constitution appears to have survived only as a result of an injustice and the use of the US army against its own citizens. I speak, of course, of "the Whiskey rebellion", (sort of 1792-ish) in which the US army was used to enforce an unjust tax (one that cost small producers twice as much per barrel as large ones) against its own citizens.
Without that revenue, the adoption by the US of the debts of the renegade states arising from the civil war would have been unfunded and the Union would probably have foundered.