On the eve of Tea Bag Day, a word from Thomas Paine

[LuckyTheDog]

On the eve of Tea Bag Day, I offer this, from Thomas Paine:

"All accumulation, therefore, of personal property, beyond what a man's own hands produce, is derived to him by living in society; and he owes on every principle of justice, of gratitude, and of civilization, a part of that accumulation back again to society from whence the whole came."

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[pansypoo53219]

1. render unto caesar

what is his.

[dflprincess]

2. Who would have thought it

Tom Paine was a socialist! No wonder we didn't hear much about him in history class.

[LuckyTheDog]

3. He'd have been a Marxist

Except that Marx had not been born at that time. Maybe Marx was a Paine-ist. :)