This was quoted by Teddy Roosevelt. He was the man that wanted to put a stop to all of this non-sense of competition and corruption. How could he tell the difference between good trusts and bad trusts? These terms are more of opinions rather than facts. In one eyes, "Efficient and fair" is not a term in the business dictionary. As I remember something that was stated in the Howard Zinn Packet "the businessmen were ruthless" and that could mean a different thing to some people. "It's just business"
Another one is "Critics said a key source of corruption was the spoils system". This is extremely unfair to the public and to the people who wanted those government jobs. Instead of the rich bribing the government officials, the government officials were bribing the public political supporters. Washington was one of these people. He won office in an unfair, and in the wrong way. That is why corruption occurred in the country. These types of Presidents would be in favor of big businesses, and this would cause unfair competition and favored competition.
The third one is "One such reform was called recall" Recall is when people want to remove an official through votes. This may have made it easier to get rid of corrupted political officials, but was it that effective? The bosses and people like them could bribe the public, money for votes, similar to the spoils system and corruption-- wait, that is corruption! recall wasn't not only that effective in getting rid of government officials, but if people start thinking and acting like the rich and the government officials, the more power you give them, the more they will be hungry for."The poor want to get a meals and houses over their heads, fair citizens want to be rich, and the rich want to be kings."
The fourth one is "Many Progressive reformers back at a graduated income tax". This is when the citizens of the United States would pay taxes depending on their income. This would be pretty legitimate for a law to be passed like this, but there are also many problems to this. Some people can choose how much they make in a month, for example; Most doctors make their money depending on whether the patient pays them or not, and some doctors have patients that don't have insurance, so they probably did 300,000 dollars worth of work, but only gotten 200,000 dollars as a result because some of the patients would be in debt. Some doctors would only want to do 15 patients a day, rather than 40. One month they can make a lot of money, and some others not so much. Graduated Income tax is not the correct way to tax people.
The final one is "'The Jungle' told grisly details about meatpacking industries'" This book described how some sick animals and rats were ground up in the meat. Teddy Roosevelt did not allow this, and exposed the conditions to meatpacking plants, and the public forced Congress to have closer inspections of meatpacking houses. But is this really effective? For all we know, they could be using meat from bad chickens not even knowing it- still in this country meat is not that closely inspect. I remember reading a newspaper article, that a meatpacking company opposed these inspection. Such anger might be allowing them to mix bad meats, getting people sick? They need serious inspections and the result on labels on the meat, if they want reliable poultry.
Another one is "Critics said a key source of corruption was the spoils system". This is extremely unfair to the public and to the people who wanted those government jobs. Instead of the rich bribing the government officials, the government officials were bribing the public political supporters. Washington was one of these people. He won office in an unfair, and in the wrong way. That is why corruption occurred in the country. These types of Presidents would be in favor of big businesses, and this would cause unfair competition and favored competition.
The fourth one is "Many Progressive reformers back at a graduated income tax". This is when the citizens of the United States would pay taxes depending on their income. This would be pretty legitimate for a law to be passed like this, but there are also many problems to this. Some people can choose how much they make in a month, for example; Most doctors make their money depending on whether the patient pays them or not, and some doctors have patients that don't have insurance, so they probably did 300,000 dollars worth of work, but only gotten 200,000 dollars as a result because some of the patients would be in debt. Some doctors would only want to do 15 patients a day, rather than 40. One month they can make a lot of money, and some others not so much. Graduated Income tax is not the correct way to tax people.
The final one is "'The Jungle' told grisly details about meatpacking industries'" This book described how some sick animals and rats were ground up in the meat. Teddy Roosevelt did not allow this, and exposed the conditions to meatpacking plants, and the public forced Congress to have closer inspections of meatpacking houses. But is this really effective? For all we know, they could be using meat from bad chickens not even knowing it- still in this country meat is not that closely inspect. I remember reading a newspaper article, that a meatpacking company opposed these inspection. Such anger might be allowing them to mix bad meats, getting people sick? They need serious inspections and the result on labels on the meat, if they want reliable poultry.
