+1CByrneIV wrote:I think you can go back even further, to Alexander Hamilton for that. It's just Lincoln did a better job of it.Scott Free wrote:Oy vey! If that ain't the pot calling the kettle black! Hell, he was the one that started the whole fascist state crap in the United States!I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. -- Abraham Lincoln
The Republican party was the phoenix that rose out of the ashes of the old Whig party of Hamilton, et.al., which was smitten by the British 'Mercantalist' system. The mercantalist system was where favorable government treatment and taxpayer funds went to large, politically connected companies (sound familiar?).
More from Prof. DiLorenzo on Hamilton: http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo107.html