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The issue of taxation stated in the farewell adress

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Answer from: lowkstahyna

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In a passage that could serve today as a principled tweet of moral guidance, Washington warned against “ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear.” He further reminded his fellow countrymen, and by extension today’s citizens and policymakers, that “towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant.” This “choice of difficulties,” he noted, “ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.” In modern times, we would call this a “pay-as-you-go” philosophy. It is a philosophy that is now very much at risk. When Washington said we should “cherish public credit,” he was not saying that we should pile it on but that we should “use it as sparingly as possible” to avoid “the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned.” Washington also called for citizen engagement and understanding of budgetary issues, observing: “The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate.”

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Of course it could have been avoided. a great many scholars argue it happened because of truman's use of fear to gain support. his predecessor fdr was the most popular and charismatic president ever. truman was a machine politician chosen as the least offensive choice around for vp. had henry wallace remained vp and then president, the cold war might not have happened. or had dewey been defeated in the primaries by robert taft, and then taft defeated truman in 48, the cold war also might not have happened. taft was somewhat isolationist, opposing nato and the korean war. wallace believed truman to be unnecessarily provocative in his dealings with the soviets.of course for strong anti communists, they claim the soviets would see any sign of weakness and try to take over the world. but this is a conspiracy theory not backed by evidence. most communist movements were local and not controlled by moscow. stalin had just lost over 20 million people and was exhausted and paranoid. his number one fear was a rearmed germany allied with the us, and truman made his nightmare real with the marshall plan. truman's blunders are at least half responsible for the cold war and neither wallace nor taft would have made them.on top of that, stalin was dying and in poor health. his successor khrushchev was a reformer who ended the forced labor camps, set many political prisoners free, criticized stalin, and declined to build a powerful soviet navy to confront the us. stalin actually proposed a neutral united germany. a paranoid american gov't turned him down, guaranteeing a continued cold war for decades more.

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