Status Updates From Glenn Beck's Common Sense: ...

Thomas Paine "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

Thomas Paine "Were we all one way of thinking, our...dispositions would want matter for probation."

Thomas Paine "The more men have to lose, the less willing they are to venture."

His reasoning was sound too, most countries in the world are either landlocked or only have a little bit of coast land. The countries that have a lot of coast land often lack the natural resources to build ships...it's true. HIs logic still stands.

On the other hand, he did point out something very true he said "Ship building is America's greatest pride, and in which, she will in time excel the whole world."

He was right. America does make the best ships, even space ships.

It's rather amusing that Paine has spent the last two pages saying the English navy isn't worth much because it only cost 3,500,000 pounds, and then he says as an incentive to America building a navy that "A navy when finished is worth more than it cost."

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"That so far as we approve of monarchy, that in America the law is king."

-Thomas Paine, Common Sense

This book is...very rambly.

Is there a cohesive point? No? I haven't found it yet.

On the other hand, yes, I absolutely agree, Flat tax rate. Let's do it. In fact, let's get rid of the IRS and make it all a flat sales tax. It would keep revenue about the same and decimate the man hours the government spends on collecting, checking, and prosecuting taxes and tax evasion, and save money in the long run.