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If you’re feeling down because of yesterday’s healthcare ruling, here’s something to cheer you up.
If you’re feeling down because of yesterday’s healthcare ruling, here’s something to cheer you up.
“Can a people tax themselves into prosperity? Can a man stand in a bucket and lift himself up by the handle?” –Winston Churchill, Speech at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England (1904)
Many are calling yesterday’s healthcare ruling upholding Obamacare as a “tax” the largest tax-increase in history. It may very well be that, if implemented, by the end of this decade we will look back on Obamacare and its bureaucracy and see that it certainly was the largest tax-increase in U.S. history. However, Politifact.com is reporting that, at the very least, Obamacare is the largest tax-increase in two decades.
The Fourth of July is just around the corner. In honor of our upcoming Independence Day, we are publishing daily quotes from our nation’s founders highlighting the high esteem they had for religion, religious liberty, and virtue.
The following is a Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Congress on October 26, 1781, under the direction of Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence.