Yep. These are things the "Founding" Generation never would have stood for:

Slavery has yet to be abolished:

> One pithy definition of a slave is: one who does not own the fruits of his own labor. That’s interesting to consider in light of the fact that, for a modern working person in America, “Tax Freedom Day” doesn’t come until about halfway through the year. For those first six months, folks work just to pay their total, annual tax bill. And, whenever they want to, their masters can raise that percentage as they see fit. By contrast, the total tax burden on the American colonies at the time the *Declaration of Independence* was signed was about 3%. Their “Tax Freedom Day” would be in the second week of January. And they went to war with the taxing authority.