Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian, two of his greatest works are: "Resistance to Civil Government" and "The Mask of Anarchy". His ideals can be summarized by this statement: “the Government should not have more power than the bestowed by its citizens”.
Henry David Thoreau was even imprisoned for refusing to pay taxes in protest for the Mexican-American War and the slavery.
1.-Thoreau was an idealist; he opposed the oppression and tyranny from the government and I think that more people like him should exist for we need more free thinkers to defend the common citizen from the oppressive government we sometimes have.
2.-One of the things that Thoreau would definitively not approve is the taxes imposed by the government to international commerce and the aggressive way the president is creating an economic war against any other country that thinks differently. And the reason to be sure about this is because he hated capitalism and the power that the government takes for granted. The president deciding over people´s will is something Thoreau hated no end.
