Quote Originally Posted by nynco View Post
At the time of the fall of Rome. All taxes had been shifted to the middle class (like today) the middle class was driven into debt slavery (like today) and the upper classes felt so deserving that they never served their nation in things like the military (like today) and then Rome fractured along political fault lines.

Rome did not end in 400AD. Half of it did.

Prior to that a political split happened. The small gov libertarians took over the Western Roman empire and the bigger gov public good type people took over the Eastern half.

The Western half ended around 400AD

The Eastern half lasted till 1400AD

Chew on that...