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SPECIAL: Roger Lowenstein on Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

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We Need a Central Taxing Power

America's distrust of centralized power and distrust of big government goes back right to the founding. It was a key part of the south's, you know, attituded and then financing, or failure to finance itself during the civil war. And this goes back toa atula revolutionary waran kowrwe we gained our political independence by fighting rebellin against the central power,. The original political framework was designed to avoid anything centralth ark as a confederation. If you talk to em say europeans, a yo. They are astonished that we don't have am a national health carris, not even a it does not even controversial t them.

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