Blue_Jackets_fan wrote:
blauSamstag wrote:
Indeed. Thomas Paine would beat the crap out of most tea partiers.
Andrew Jackson would probably shoot them.
Care to explain why?
Paine was a fairly radical redistributionist. This is why i suspect that Glenn Beck has never actually read anything he wrote.
Paine proposed that the landed gentry should be forced to pay a tax to the unlanded, for usurping their birthright. Specifically:
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[C]reate a national fund, out of which there shall be paid to every person, when arrived at the age of twenty-one years, the sum of fifteen pounds sterling, as a compensation in part, for the loss of his or her natural inheritance, by the introduction of the system of landed property. And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age.
Jackson was a big proponent of federal power, generally considered to be the father of the democratic party, and somewhat of a violent, crazy badass. He got the nickname "old hickory" by carrying around a stick that he often beat people with.
He believed in universal sufferage for all white men and the abolition of the electoral college.
I'll grant you that his fiscal sense wasn't too keen and his opposition of the fed caused the panic of 1837 - which you'd think would bring him kinship with the teabaggers - but i don't think they would really get along.
Upon seeing a medicaid recipient complain about federal influence in their lives, he probably would have beat them within an inch of their lives with his cane at the very least.