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ChicagoRonin

(630 posts) Tue Sep 29, 2020, 05:05 PM Sep 2020

Pro-tax US WWII era cartoon

The Spirit of '43 is an animated World War II propanganda film created by Walt Disney to encourage Americans to file and pay their income taxes faithfully in order to help the war effort. The repeated theme in the film is "Taxes... To Defeat the Axis." [link:

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Pro-tax US WWII era cartoon (Original Post) ChicagoRonin Sep 2020 OP

"Pay Your Taxes, Beat The Axis." Aristus Sep 2020 #1

Here's one that more of us can relate to (possibly) FakeNoose Sep 2020 #2

Since that bygone era, Americans have made heroes out of thieves Cirque du So-What Sep 2020 #3

"Every dollar you spend for something you don't need is a dollar spent to help the Axis." mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2020 #4

Aristus

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1. "Pay Your Taxes, Beat The Axis."

Reply to ChicagoRonin (Original post)

Tue Sep 29, 2020, 05:13 PM

Sep 2020

There was a time when paying one's taxes was viewed as patriotic. Then f*****g Reagan came along and told everyone that tax was theft, and only welfare queens benefit from general taxation.