It's a new year--2024--and once again I find myself fascinated by a letter from Ms Richardson. Her careful, thoughtful and accurate prose is almost always attention-making. Today's missive once more illustrates the value of studying, or at least reading, history. Presidential candidate N. Haley fumbled a question from a voter about the reason for the Civil War. (also known as The War Between The States) Richardson sets out the rather complicated developments that lead finally to a group of Southern states revolting against the ruling Republican Party of Lincoln and the federal government. As with many events in our history, the Civil War of 1861 was not Just a disagreement over slavery.
We begin this presidential election year in serious disarray. Some people, in the forlorn belief that our nation is falling apart push candidates who espouse authoritarian rule, not quite dictatorships but trending in that direction. The need for wealth as a measure of success and patriotism continues to grow and define our rules. Voters elect more and more "representatives" who appear to be primarily focused on their personal success to the detriment of good governmental progress. One example will suffice. Our world is vastly more complicated than it was in the 1920s. Yet our Internal Revenue Dept. is unable to modernize its technical and other operations to more completely and fairly tax our citizens and corporations.
As a result, individual citizens unable to afford elite tax accountants pay greater shares of government while may wealthy individuals and corporations are able to escape most taxes to finance the operation of our government.
Be well, keep you head up and be alert for kids in the intersection with their attention focused on their eell phones and not on surrounding traffic.
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