• NABDad@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    What they are trying to conserve is not how it is, it’s how it was.

    You know, back before the Civil War when they could own people.

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      4 days ago

      Back when taxes for rich people were about 80%? And a family could live comfortably on a single salary. Or be wealthy with a job with a degree requirement? Oh, not those times, just the slaves, huh.

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        4 days ago

        Exactly. They don’t want to go back to a time when you could be happy, healthy, and raise a family.

        They want to go all the way past those times to Antebellum America, when there were no Federal income taxes (US government raised most of it’s funding from things like tariffs…sound familiar?), when kids died from diseases that we’ve since been able to prevent with vaccines, and when you had to have the kids that survived work the mines to keep the family from starving.

        They wish they was in the land of cotton.