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“Later surveys would show the 1950s generation to be in many ways one of the least religious groups in American history, and this may end part count for why they’re success-while genuine and admirable in many cases-was fleeting. Sooner or later, a safety foundation of civic virtue, unsupported by deeper spiritual commitments, would crumble.”

“. . . allowed the government to conceal the total tax burden from the public and make it easier to steadily raise taxes, not just during the war, but for decades. it was the burden of laying aside money that had focused the public attention on taxation levels.“

“Other insidious changes in the taxation found their way into the code, the most damaging of which involve the introduction in July 1943 of withholding taxes from paychecks of employees. That subtle, described sympathetically by one text as ‘an innovative feature’ where ‘no longer would taxpayers have to set aside money to pay their total tax bill… at the end of the year. . .’l

“Virtually every one of the new deal programs in someway made the people more dependent on government-not more independent, or self-sufficient-and when the government was run by Democrats, the logical conclusion voters had to draw was whatever they got from government ‘came’ from the Democrats.

“Americans showed they need a chicken soup for this soul-stories of courage, hope, and optimism-not another application of leeches or dose of castor oil masquerading as social commentary.“

“New studies suggest this(minimum wage and maximum hours of 1938 Faur Labor Standards Act) might have prolonged the great depression: minimum wage laws in the 1950s in 1960s were closely correlated with minority teenage unemployment at the time, suggesting the laws encouraged to discrimination.“

Quote with each new government initiative, reliance on the federal government grew, and the party that would promise to maintain, or even expand government assistance, could count on the votes of large numbers of American, who saw the opportunity to tax others for their own benefit.”

“The fact that some historians identify two different ‘New Deals’ reflects the utter lack of blueprint or consistency to Roosevelt’s programs. It’s served as a convenient cover for the fact that Roosevelt flitted from program to program, without any overarching plan, aside from the presumption that government could and should do things that citizens previously had done themselves.”

“The fact that they were imposing what were, in reality, upper class values on people who did not have the means to maintain them did not stop the reformers… as with her fellow progressives, she believed redemption, came out through religion, but through social action(often mandated by government.)