It used to be cool to pay taxes

There’s been a YouTube clip making its away around the blogosphere.  It was made by an American multinational with a very clear agenda: the Walt Disney company wanted Americans to pay their taxes.  Made in 1943, the clip emphasizes the patriotism of paying taxes over the narcissism of indulgent consumption.  I’ve put the best quotes below and the clip after the jump.

Memorable quotes:

It’s your dough, but it’s your war too.  You must save for victory.

Spend for the Axis?  Or save for taxes?  Just remember, every dollar you spend for something you don’t need is a dollar to help the Axis.

Every dollar you sock away for taxes is another dollar to sock the Axes.

Taxes to bury the Axes.

Taxes for [...] all kinds of battle wagons.

Taxes to bring to earth the evil destroyer of freedom and peace!  This is our fight, the fight for freedom – freedom of speech, of worship, freedom from want and fear.  Taxes will keep democracy on the march!

To my modern, jaded ears, it’s unbelievable that anyone, much less a giant corporation, would argue in favor of taxes, but I did not make up any of those quotes.  I almost fell out of my chair with that last quote, which, void of context, sounds like it could come from the mouth of GWB or Bill Kristol himself.  A war-loving patriot telling people to pay for their war -what audacity that politicians expected citizens to pay for war!  Pay for war? Ha – only communists don’t believe in debt financing!

The clip is below the fold.