{"id":3915,"date":"2009-11-18T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/?p=3915"},"modified":"2009-11-18T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T01:23:31","slug":"the-road-to-serfdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/the-road-to-serfdom\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Serfdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>One milestone in the march to megagovernment was &#8220;the passage in 1913 of the Sixteenth Amendment, which permitted a federal income tax. Prior to enactment of the income tax,&#8221; Moore explains, &#8220;Congress&#8217; power to spend was held in check by its limited power to tax.&#8221; Another milestone &#8212; or millstone &#8212; was &#8220;the ascendancy of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal agenda to the White House during the Great Depression. One after another,&#8221; Moore recalls, &#8220;constitutional safeguards against excessive government were ignored or misinterpreted.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americasfuture.net\/1997\/sept97\/97-0928a.html\"><strong>&#8212; Behind the Headlines<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Has no one learned the lessons of the 20th Century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One milestone in the march to megagovernment was &#8220;the passage in 1913 of the Sixteenth Amendment, which permitted a federal income tax. Prior to enactment of the income tax,&#8221; Moore explains, &#8220;Congress&#8217; power to spend was held in check by its limited power to tax.&#8221; Another milestone &#8212; or millstone &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"The Road to Serfdom - Politickles","description":"One milestone in the march to megagovernment was \"the passage in 1913 of the Sixteenth Amendment, which permitted a federal income tax. Prior to enactment of th"},"_slim_seo_primary_term_category":0,"_slim_seo_primary_term_post_tag":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1270,1293,1288,2122,12,1787,24],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-big-government","tag-direct-election-of-senators","tag-income-tax","tag-new-deal","tag-obama","tag-obamacare","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/politickles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}