>This is why a "progressive" income tax is so unfair. It must be abolished.
>We must change the culture's attitude toward this socialistic idea or it
>will represent -- and I don't exaggerate -- the end of our free republic.
Karl Marx & Fred Engels wrote:
>Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be
>pretty generally applicable.
>
>1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of
>land to public purposes.
>2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
>3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
>4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
>5. Centralization of credit in the banks of the state, by means of a
>national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
>6. Centralization of the means of communication and transport in the
>hands of the state.
>7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the
>state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the
>improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
>8. Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment of industrial
>armies, especially for agriculture.
>9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual
>abolition of all the distinction between town and country by a more
>equable distribution of the populace over the country.
>10. Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of
>children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of
>education with industrial production, etc.