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[quote user="jeaton"]  The column to the left was the last part of a speech made by Eastern Airlines President Eddie Rickenbacher on April 12, 1962.  Interestingly, he advocated repeal of the 16th Amendment of the US Constitution which clarified the right of the Federal Goverrnment to collect income taxes.  He actually proposed this position as a means of ending the cold war between the US and the USSR as it would be left to the individual states to provide for the national defense.  His position was that the USSR would then have to defeat each of the 52 states and since they could not get the US in one fell swope, they would no longer be interested in continuing the battle.[/quote]I think the establishment of a common defense preceded the federal income tax by a few years, so the idea of abolishing the federal income tax does not necessarily correlate with a lack of military funding.  We'd probably have a national sales tax on top of the usual tarriffs.Besides, Wisconsin would have surrendered long before the first Russian bomber could have gotten off it's Siberian runway![;)][quote]I can see it now.  No federal taxes, two lane highways and 37 Class 1 railroads providing freight and passenger service to every city, town and crossroads in the country.  [/quote]No, we'd still have 6 or so Class I's over current lines favoring imports over domestic rail shippers along with two lane roads, etc.[;)][;)]
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