Published in January 1776 in Philadelphia, nearly 120,000 copies were in circulation by April. Paine's brilliant arguments were straightforward. He argued for two main points: (1) independence from England and (2) the creation of a democratic republic. Paine avoided flowery prose.
FDR's New Deal policies were based on Keynesian economics, which promoted the massive infusion of money into the economy to promote employment and spending. Roosevelt created the welfare state to accomplish this task. The statement is False.
