New members @Mark Osborne and @Rudi Strahl have joined our USA history community!!!! Please give them a welcome and introduce yourselves and where you are from. We cover a vast array of territory not only in the USA but also Austria! We all believe in the 1st Amendment and freedom of Speech in this community and love our local areas. We will be deep diving into battles of the Revolutionary War and further into interpretation and expanding our knowledge of the U.S. Constitution as we move along here

Why is it just accepted that personal income gets taxed in your opinion? Is it because if you don’t pay the IRS is there? Is it patriotic to fund our government through our own checks, which are taken out before we ever get them if you’re an employee? There was no federal income tax established in the U.S. Constitution until ratified in 1913, when Woodrow Wilson was President. At the time, it affected only 1% of all Americans. Tariffs and excise taxes were the main ways of funding the government before then. April 15th is not a national holiday! How do you think our government should be funded?

The 10th Amendment holds (paraphrased) “all rights not granted in the U.S. Constitution are reserved to the States” New Jersey, where I live, has a different culture and economy than Texas, for instance. In other words, just because the Constitution does not explicitly say a specific right does not mean you don’t have them. Each State has autonomy to a large extent. How is your State unique? Should States be left alone to run themselves from the Capital, Washington D.C. ,which may be far away and unresponsive to their particular region’s needs?

A special Top 7 U.S. Presidents presentation for Presidents’ Day. I changed the time to 11am EST. I look forward to it and tell me your opinions and tweaks you would make to the list. Enjoy our community’s and my YouTube channel’s 1st livestream. 👍

On Friday, February 13th, at 1pm EST, on https://www.YouTube.com/@localhistorywithmike , I will have our 1st livestream. discussing the Top 7 most influential USA Presidents, 1789-Present. All members and non-members are invited to the live event, to agree or disagree with my selections in real time, and I welcome all opinions, the 1st Amendment exists in our community “Patriot History”, which I cemented on my Liberty Bell video, where I said my full name in public to show we are UNAFRAID! Who would you consider America’s most important and influential President and why?