The Price of Liberty
by Emiliano Antunez

07/21/05

Webster's dictionary defines a serf as 'a person in feudal servitude, bound to his master's land.' The word serf conjures up images of shabbily clothed peasants tilling their master's fields or meandering about a medieval village in the shadow of the master's castle. But is serfdom something left behind in antiquity or did it simply metamorphose, making itself unrecognizable to the non-inquiring mind? Serfdom has stealthily survived throughout the ages into the 'modern' era, even here in The United States, the supposed 'home of the free.' Starting with what some (unfortunately not many) would consider the obvious, the Income Tax has turned every wage earner in America into a modern day serf...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp