Why do some people call Thomas Paine a liberterian when he was clearly a LIBERAL?

Question

in the modern sense of the word?

In his Rights of Man, Agrarian Justice, and Age of Reason, founding father Thomas Paine argues for:
- public education for every single child
- a pension system for the elderly
- a minimum wage
- the right to bargain
- secular government
- progressive taxes (meaning shift taxes to the rich)
and even
- a government work program

HERE IS CALLING FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION

"After all the above cases are provided for there will still be a number of families who, though not properly of the class of poor, yet find it difficult to give education to their children; and such children, under such a case, would be in a worse condition than if their parents were actually poor. A nation under a well-regulated government should permit none to remain uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that requires ignorance for its support..."
- Rights of Man
http://www.constitution.org/tp/rightsman2.htm

"By adopting this method, not only the poverty of the parents will be relieved, but ignorance will be banished from the rising generation, and the number of poor will hereafter become less, because their abilities, by the aid of education, will be greater. Many a youth, with good natural genius, who is apprenticed to a mechanical trade, such as a carpenter, joiner, millwright, shipwright, blacksmith, etc., is prevented getting forward the whole of his life from the want of a little common education when a boy."
- Rights of Man

Lindsey,

Exactly. Modern liberalism traces its root directly to the founding fathers. The founding fathers were the radical LEFTISTS of their generation.

Since then, American has only gotten even more liberal. So while today's left-wingers are in general more liberal then the founding fathers (we believe in equal rights for women and minorities and gays), it was the founding fathers who laid down the foundation:
- expansion of equal rights to more and more people
- government for and by the people
and
- secular pluralistic government

azred,

Liberterians don't believe in public education, social security, labor rights, or progressive taxes.

Answer 1

He would be considered to have a liberal ideology according to his writings.

Answer 2

He sounds pretty Libertarian to me.

Answer 3

look up what liberals or libertarians are.

That makes no sense.

Answer 4

Well. He was clearly a hypocrite.

Answer 5

You are life-challenged, aren't you?