I thomas jefferson lay this out in 1816
letter to Sam Lee Samuel Christian a
lawyer he said those seeking profits
really given total freedom would not be
the ones to trust to keep government
pure
in our rights secure indeed it has
always been those seeking wealth where
the source
of corruption in government no other
depositories a power have ever yet been
found which did not end up
and a and in converting to their own
profit the earnings those committed to
their church
indeed it has always been those seeking
wealth with the source
corruption in government he went on to
say I am NOT among those who fear the
people I think about ally can all our
efforts to stop voting all across the
republican party
you know I am NOT among those who fear
the people they and not the Rich
are our dependence for continued freedom
we must make our election between
economy and liberty or profusion and
servitude
otherwise as the people love England are
in keep in mind this was
you know during the the missus little
pre Victorian but basically in England
you had
no middle-class you had the rich
very small bridge class here very small
middle class which was the
the doctors and lawyers and bankers and
and and shop owners
the mercantilist in the professions
and then you had a very large class of
working people who are the working poor
said Jefferson says otherwise
as the people love England are our
people like them must come to labor 16
hours in the 24
and the 16th being insufficient to
afford as Brad
we must live as they do now I know
peeling potatoes
have no time to think no means a call in
the Miss managers to accounts
are we talking about today right if you
can reduce people a poverty they can't
even get into the streets to call you
note to editors:
to no means to call in the Miss managers
to account
but be glad to obtain subsistence
to get this just think about this for
meh
about the people who are so
you know please that they got a job as a
manager or murder some
but be glad to obtain subsistence by
hiring themselves to revert their chains
on the NEX
a bar fellow sufferers he said a totally
free market
would transform the country quote until
the bulk
up the society is reduced to be near
automatons
misery and two halves knows
sensibilities left but person in
and suffering then indeed begins
the Bella omnium in Armenia is a phrase
this is a
verbatim he lifted that out I've I love
leviathan by Thomas Hobbes the bell
Omnia & Omnia
though that the war of all against all
flat
then begins indeed the bellum omnium it
in Omnia which some observers see Simon
Hobbs
observing to be so general in this world
have mistaken for the natural incentive
the abuses stayed up man
which gets back to my old
ref about you know the whole
conservative worldview is based on top
is is
world view their hobbs is assumption
that the natural state of man
is that you've got rulers and the ruled
the you got predators and prey
and Jefferson was say no that's not the
natural state of man
or mankind for humankind
me you know to use the that language if
it's time
so I think that I think that we need to
be gone we need to be seriously looking
at what teddy roosevelt was sayin
here's here's a in eighteen 1785
is a letter to James Madison from Thomas
Jefferson
another means of silently lessening the
inequality
of property is to exempt all from
taxation below
a certain point and attacks the higher
portions of property
in geometrical progression as day
ride its
in 1784 taxes should be proportioned
to what may be annually spared by the
individual
and as noted earlier as well rises so
should taxes
geometrically
in 1826 letter to William B Giles
jefferson warned
back then right 1826 E B this is steve
is an old man that this was a year to
before he died
he said some conservatives my phrase he
was talking actually about the
the John Adams wing the federalists he
said they now look to a single
and splendid government have an
aristocracy
founded on banking institutions and
money didn't corporations
under the guy is and cloak up their
favorite branches
manufactures commerce and navigation
to modern day equivalent to that would
be are the oil barons friend called the
Rams
the defense industry
they now look to a single in splendid
government of an aristocracy founded on
banking institutions and moneyed in
corporations under the guise Inc local
their favored branches a manufactures
commerce
navigation riding in it and a ruling in
over the plundered Plowman and bigger to
Yeomanry the Plowman the farmer the
Yeomanry
the allman is the the worker
this will be to them
a next best blast scene to the monarchy
have their first aim and perhaps the
surest
set stepping stone to it
Thomas Jefferson who died bankrupt
had some understanding no you know what
was going on
with these guys and then this is
this is my favorite his quote this is
April 6th 1816 his letter to
just milligan if the overgrown wealth
up an individual say a
daddy coke who founded her help found
the the John Birch Society
and bequeath millions to his sons if the
overgrown wealth have an individual be
deemed
dangerous to the state
the best corrective is the law
%uh equal inheritance to all equal
degree
an inheritance tax
now he was also at that point he was
back one of the first pieces of
legislation proposed a thirty years
earlier 35-40 years earlier when he was
in the house a purchases and Virginia
was to do away with the for getting the
the older can't name for it but they had
a law
that said that the first the oldest male
inherited everything and he would he was
the oldest son up his
his father and he and Ben when his
father died he inherited his mother
and his a brother and sisters
basically inherited responsibility for
things like you know teenager
and he fought against that law
primogeniture yeah its core
primogeniture
and he was a big upon level of
primogeniture
