[governsleastgovernsbest]

Woodrow Wilson, author of the "progressive income tax", which would only be levied on "the rich".

And wasn't the idea that the tax rate wouldn't exceed a couple per cent?

[an amused spectator]

And wasn't the idea that the tax rate wouldn't exceed a couple per cent?

Well, yeah - but nobody specified whether it was a couple of percent per annum, per month, per week or per diem. :-)