Talk:Alexander Hamilton

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Some thoughts…..

Before anyone starts claiming that “taxes placing the United States on a sound financial footing is a liberal falsehood,” please note that I have provided references, and nearly any good college level U.S. history text will agree with this. If you want evidence from a primary source, please consult Hamilton’s Report on Public Credit, which can be found in the American State Papers, Finance, vol. one, 1789-1802 which can be found here http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsplink.html

In keeping with conservapedia’s commandment # 1, everything in this article is “true and verifiable.” If you do think something in this article is incorrect, please have, as I do, the intellectual integrity to cite your sources. --1048247 12:49, 6 May 2007 (EDT)

Not to quibble, but how does removing a "pro-tax bias" with an anti-tax bias any better? Jrssr5 10:08, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

History has a liberal bias?

Who is this guy to tell us to get off his talk page? Will he block you if you put it back on, 104etc?-BillBuck 11:50, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

I am a little surprised by the reaction. Nearly any scholar will cite excise taxes as ONE of the reasons that the U.S. retired its war debt. It also caused agreat deal of resentment. That was what the Whiskey Rebellion was about.

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I'm adding a bibliography I compiled and new material-- all written by me but some appeared in Wikipedia or Citizendium.org RJJensen 22:22, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

Leading Intellectual

I think "a" leading intellectual rather than "the" leading intellectual understates Hamilton's role a bit. The other examples were not really his equal as an intellectual.--Aschlafly 22:43, 7 September 2008 (EDT)

well it depends what you mean by an "intellectual" rather little of Hamilton's career was spent as a writer (1788 on Fed Papers and 1792 on three big reports is about it, along with a couple essays in 1775.) I think John Adams was more widely read, for example, and Franklin was a world-famous scientist. Noah Webster likewise was a major intellectual. RJJensen 23:35, 7 September 2008 (EDT)