America is a land of taxation that was founded to avoid taxation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.
The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.
People really have to believe in their tax system. They have to believe that there is an equitable distribution of the burden, but there is also an important investment based upon the potential achievements that come from us paying our taxes.
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
The American taxpayers are a powerful force. They don't want their taxes raised.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
I am opposed to any individual taxes until we eliminate all of the unconstitutional agencies, and I suspect we wouldn't need a tax after that.
The United States could transform its property tax system into a progressive tax on net worth without asking permission to the rest of the world.
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