In 1913, Washington took the revolutionary step necessary to unburden itself financially. The 16th amendment to the Constitution universalized a tax on income. Every individual or business had now to send a portion of their income or their profit to Washington. The federal income tax gave Washington politicians the freedom to create and finance projects that had universal goals. Washington found the key to free itself from the drudgery of national rule. Let the states rule! Let everyone have citizenship in the United States and also in the state where they choose to live! Two citizenships are better than one! Let everyone be free to live and work and create wherever they will. But let every worker and every businessman send a portion of their earnings to Washington and let them not demand their contributions back! Washington learned to rule as little as possible and the citizens and businesses of states learned not to demand back from Washington their monies. Every citizen learned he was on his own to either make it or not according to the degree of intelligence, initiative and energy he could devise. Washington learned it was on its own too and it found that the safest way to keep the rivers of money flowing to it was to act as universally as possible. Washington alone of world governments acts as little as possible as the government of a nation. It does the things in the US and in the world that states should not be trying to do because they can not do them well and because they have plenty of things they should be doing that they alone can do well.
Daniel McNeill’s play,The Body Is A Legal Drug, will have 7 performances during the Midtown International Theater Festival in New York in July and August at the Davenport Theatre 354 West 45th Street. 212-956-0948.
tickets $20.00 : https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/27845
Loving the one your’re with can come back to haunt you. A new comedy about finding your true identity.
Performances: July 18 2:30 pm. July 20 6:30 pm. July 24 6:30 pm. July 26 7:00 pm. July 28 8:30 pm. July 31 8:00 pm. August 2 3:30 pm.
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