There have been several times in US History where taxing the rich has been supported by both parties and across a vast swath of the ideological spectrum. Thomas Jefferson, darling of the Tea Party (a tax-lowering, libertarian movement now swallowed up in other movements) supported higher taxes on the wealthy via another means.
In Jefferson's time, tariffs taxed the rich, as noted in this 1811 letter to Thaddeus Kościuszko, a Polish leader who served in the American Revolution:
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied. The poor man, who uses nothing but what is made in his own farm or family, or within his own country, pays not a farthing of tax to the General Government.” --Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt was tagged in this post because his ideas were similar in his Square Deal remarks. His face sits near Jefferson's at Mt. Rushmore, SD.
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| Mt. Rushmore, Jefferson & Roosevelt This blog often mixes a bit of the silly with the serious. In life, the sublime and the ridiculous live side-by-side. When you go to Mt. Rushmore and look up at the Jefferson head, those are some noticeable nostrils! 👃 |
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