T. COLEMAN ANDREWS
(Thomas Coleman Andrews)
This is a classic quotation of political techniques during the Red Scare of the 1950s and 60s and to a lesser extent continues today. Whatever a politician disapproves of is labeled as Communism or Socialism. If a major communist documents was in favor of the target of the politician, that is offered as ‘proof.’ At the time this statement was made, almost every single one of the democracies and dictatorship that were in the Anti-Communist block led by the U. S. had an income tax. There were a number of communist countries that did NOT have an income tax. Racial discrimination was prohibited in many Communist documents, so any one who urged an end to legal discrimination was accused by Southern segregationists of being communists and urging communism for America. See {619998} for the same technique used for the same opposition to the income tax almost a century earlier.
Thomas Coleman Andrews was an accountant, state and federal government official, and an independent candidate for President of the United States in 1956.
