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Originally Posted by TheDoc
With Hearst, he made his money after the Civil War... I bet he used the new railway system and the pony express and enjoyed keeping his scalp on his travels  We also had Tariffs, some of the highest after the war and he would have had to deal with the first income tax as well. He was mayor of NY in the early 1900's, we had roads, city taxes, etc. |
This is his bio, and I think it disproves that academic quote that implied "Nobody in this country ever got rich" without the governments "help" or because of what the federal govt. did. Hearst and many other of the richest people in the country did just that. There was no strong federal govt. then:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hearst