A look back to the pre-IRS age of well-being

Supposedly the good old days weren't so good. I've seen a book (possibly The Good Old Days: They Were Terrible!) that tells why in great detail -- for instance, it tells the amazing, revolting extent to which horse manure pervaded city life. There is no question in my mind, however, that life was drastically better for all kinds of people. Factory workers were shamelessly exploited, but even pennies were actually worth something. A host of social ills that plague news headlines today didn't exist. Minorities lived in intact families for the most part; the black middle class grew healthily until the civil riots movement brought the blight of welfarism and started fomenting war between the races.

The turn of the twentieth century was indeed America's golden age -- for the rich, the gilded age. So-called Reconstruction was in low ebb (it has never really ended) and American youth weren't dying on foreign fields for the furtherance of any misbegotten Big Ideas. I don't imagine I'd enjoy living on the average person's food fare of that time, but ah, to know it was all organic at regular prices? This norm of all prior eras is a distant fantasy in the age of MSG, HFCS and EDTA in our typically GMO foods, when the family farm is a mere shadow of its former self.

Enjoy this article -- note the tax factors!

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