Looking back at Teddy Roosevelt. Alison Fish writes a retrospective…. [John Robb’s Weblog]
Predictably, the article goes on about what a great guy he was and cheers for the death tax. This sentence stands out:
bq. It was Republican President Teddy Roosevelt, after all, who introduced the idea of an inheritance tax in his speech The Man with the Muck-Rake, given exactly one hundred years, one month, and eleven days ago today.
Blame for the idea of an inheritance tax should actually go to the Communist Manifesto, which was published in 1848.
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