Mark Small

The Boston Tea Party was a reaction to the 1773 Tea Act - the effect of which, actually, was to reduce taxes to the Colonies on tea. Ferling, p. 94. American history has been anti-tax. Colonists resented any taxation. 9/24

U.S. politicians only are popular if they promise “no” or lower taxes. Former VP Walter Mondale said he’d have to raise taxes. Mondale lost to Reagan who, in eight (8) years, increased the national deficit from $994 billion to $2.9 trillion. 10/24

People love “free” things. As already noted, until the 1960s students in California did not pay tuition for college. In Indiana tuition at I.U., in the early 1970s for in-state students only was twenty dollars ($20) per credit hour. 11/24

When I went it was 35 a credit hour.

You're younger than me. Of course in my day campus transportation by burro was inexpensive - the lawns were well-fertilized, though.

I'm old as dirt. 56

I guess I'm from a stratum of soil a couple of layers beneath you. I'm older than dirt.

Funny how fast life is.