Paine called for independence and identified "there is something absurd in supporting a Continent to be perpetually governed by an island." We have enjoyed for 200 years the benefits of that pronouncement. Thomas Paine wrote his first public defense for the working man in 1772. As a result he had lost his job as an excise man by 1774. Soon thereafter. Ben Franklins vision for our Nation included Thomas Paine and consequently he urged him to emigrate to Pennsylvania. where he became an influential and successful publisher of Pennsylvania Msvgazine. Incidently. Paine never became a rich manas he might have had he not donated the proceeds from his widely successful "Common Sense" and "The American Crisis" to the cause of our revolution along with his rather meager salary as a soldier.
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