Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
Agrarian Justice - WikipediaAnd it's Paine, he was mostly a socialist to you, and I doubt you mean Mason (who wouldn't sign the Constitution). As for Jefferson, he took a knife to the Gospels to remove all the BS about Jesus.Is this liberal nation, founding using liberalism, annoying you again, Korean girl?
You fascists democrats are not "liberal," you are Stalinists. You have nothing in common with Jefferson, Mason or Payne. You are identical in view to Mao, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin. You call the founding fathers "old dead white guys" as you spit on the liberal notions they espoused, while you rush to embrace the feudal structures of a government that owns all and rules over an enslaved peasantry.
You are a totalitarian thug, the polar opposite of "liberal."
Paine a socialist?
{His basic contention was that the enormous increase in taxation suffered by the people of England in the past few centuries was due to "extravagance, corruption, and intrigue." Maintaining that of the total annual tax bill of 17 million pounds, only one million and a half was necessary, he proceeded to show how the remaining taxes should be disposed of. First of all his plan provided subsidies for children so they might be sent to school, provision for aged persons, payment to families for childbirths and marriages, funeral payments, and accident benefits.
Paine said that the tax on houses and windows should be abolished, and also the commutation tax because these placed heavy burdens upon persons least able to bear them. Instead of the small indirect taxes which lay so heavily on the poor, he thought the principle of the luxury tax should be applied to incomes. He said, "Admitting that any annual sum, say, for instance, a thousand pounds, is necessary to support a family, consequently the second thousand is in the nature of a luxury, the third still more so, and by proceeding on we shall arrive at a sum that may not improperly be called a prohibitable luxury. It would be impolitic to set bounds to property acquired by industry, and therefore it is right to place the prohibition beyond the probable acquisition to which industry can extend; but there ought to be a limit to property or the accumulation of it by bequest." He then proposed a system of graduated taxes upon incomes. The object of such a tax in Paine's mind was twofold: It would first of all eliminate those arduous duties imposed on the poor by the rich which has been screened too much, and secondly it would break up the large estates and return their substance to all the heirs and heiresses which "hitherto the Aristocracy have quartered . . . upon the public in useless posts, places and offices."}
Thomas Paine and Income Taxes ~ ECONOMIC THEORIES
George Mason was a staunch advocate of economic liberty. So much so that a university is named for him.
And someone who refused to sign the document that founded this nation means - he's not a Founder.
You are calling property tax "socialism?"
Are you insane?
Why did Mason refuse to back the Constitution? Do you know sparky? I'll give you a hint, the issue caused a civil war later when you filthy scum democrats refused to give it up....