Thursday, February 10, 2011

Thomas Paine

The roots of modern American liberalism can be traced to American revolutionary Thomas Paine. Paine emigrated from England and was highly influential in both the American and French revolutions in the 18th century. He was an early advocate of progressive taxation and also proposed universal, free public education, a guaranteed minimum income, and other democratic ideas.
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