Jeffrey Tucker speaks of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and Fair in Chicago within the context of wealth creation through private enterprise and the extremely limited role of government. Everything was “looking up”. Entrepreneurial wealth creation through innovation was the order of the day – until 1913 and 14, thanks to the creation of the Funny Money Machine and the delusions of grandeur held by the “public servant” sociopaths. Imagine… no Income Tax. You earned it. You kept it. No wonder things were “looking up”. A “Gilded Age” indeed with currencies backed by gold and silver. No counterfeit printing press in sight for the abstract and destructive mischief of the State.
