Civil War, Part II

[Occhidiangela]

Tom Paine was consistent enough. You're just reading him through the filter of your own beliefs about what constitutes vassalage.

To him, that meant being ruled by a Monarch, in whose government you had no voice. To you, it apparently means taxes.

(Edit: Perhaps you misunderstood. I don't mean Tom Paine believed in these things early in his life. Quite the contrary, what I linked you was published when he was sixty. I mean he believed in these things before belief in them was widespread.)

-Jester

Thomas Paine was quite the writer and propagandist.

Now, for the fun part of his career: how much time did he spend trying to put into practice his words and ideals?

As any number of folks, Jefferson not the least of them, find out it is in the implementation of these grand ideas and thougths that the truth gets revealed. And a little thing called friction.

Occhi