{"id":32609,"date":"2021-04-07T10:09:07","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32609"},"modified":"2021-04-07T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T15:09:44","slug":"quote-of-the-day-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/07\/quote-of-the-day-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>But it was Lincoln\u2019s Republicans who first provided the justification for investing in the nation. In the midst of the deadly Civil War, as the United States was hemorrhaging both blood and money, Republican lawmakers defended first their invention of national taxes. The government had a right to \u201cdemand\u201d 99% of a man\u2019s property for an urgent need, said House Ways and Means Committee Chair Justin Smith Morrill (R-VT). When the nation required it, he said, \u201cthe property of the people\u2026 belongs to the [g]overnment.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/heathercoxrichardson.substack.com\/p\/april-6-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Professor Heather Cox Richardson<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quite the thing for a Republican to say. But I do wish Richardson had given a source for context.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But it was Lincoln\u2019s Republicans who first provided the justification for investing in the nation. In the midst of the deadly Civil War, as the United States was hemorrhaging both blood and money, Republican lawmakers defended first their invention of national taxes. The government had a right to \u201cdemand\u201d 99% \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/04\/07\/quote-of-the-day-16\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32611,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32609\/revisions\/32611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}