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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPro-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."
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Pro-tax US WWII era cartoon (Original Post)
ChicagoRonin
Sep 2020
OP
"Every dollar you spend for something you don't need is a dollar spent to help the Axis."
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2020
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Aristus
(71,876 posts)1. "Pay Your Taxes, Beat The Axis."
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.
FakeNoose
(40,730 posts)2. Here's one that more of us can relate to (possibly)

Cirque du So-What
(29,525 posts)3. Since that bygone era, Americans have made heroes out of thieves
culminating in the rise of Donald F. tRump.
mahatmakanejeeves
(68,804 posts)4. "Every dollar you spend for something you don't need is a dollar spent to help the Axis."
Well, gosh, they're not quite so judgmental about hoarding now.
