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Jefferson set up taxation according to one's ability to pay, so he was a socialist, too.
We have socialized police, fire protection, schools, libraries, roads, etc., etc. The U.S. military has socialized medicine. All of western Europe is socialist. It just doesn't work to pejoratively name-call someone or something socialist (except, I guess, to those who don't realize how pervasive socialism is here).
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