re: #610 swamprat

I think I’ll side with the Constitution, and give Teddy a pass on this one.

Are you arguing against progressive taxation with all this “surrending liberty” stuff? I don’t see the connection.

By the way, since we’re quoting founding fathers, here’s Thomas Paine promoting a progressive tax scheme:

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But the chief object of this progressive tax (besides the justice of rendering taxes more equal than they are) is, as already stated, to extirpate the overgrown influence arising from the unnatural law of primogeniture, and which is one of the principle sources of corruption at elections.

The more things change, the more they stay the same…