03/14/05

Have you ever noticed how public (i.e., government) schoolteachers and textbooks extol the virtues of America's Founders in the 1770s for being tax rebels -- you know, people who broke the law by avoiding taxes on tea, tobacco, et cetera (Remember the Boston Tea Party?); but today the rebels' successors are treated as evil, immoral beings for depriving the government of money to support its welfare-warfare state? I wonder how many public (i.e., government) school students ask about the difference in treatment...

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0503f.asp

from Future of Freedom Foundation, by Jacob G. Hornberger


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp