[ClearCase_guy]

At their 1896 convention, Democrats endorsed such a tax as the best way to ensure that the “burdens of taxation” be “equally and impartially laid” so that “wealth may bear its due proportion of the expenses of Government.” By 1908, both parties supported a national income tax.

If politicians really wanted the wealthy to shoulder their portion, then we would have a wealth tax. But we don't. The wealthy are doing just fine -- they have their land, their homes, their businesses. That stuff is not part of the discussion. The income tax? Wage earners pay that. People trying to get ahead pay that. The income tax helps to keep them in their place, and helps to protect the wealthy from uppity folks.

[Jean2]

When this stupid bitch doesn’t mention in her article about the robber barons is that it was they who lead the charge for the progressive income tax in the first place.