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Marx and Engels
==Background==
==Background==
It deserves note that [[Adam Smith]], an early proponent of a laissez-faire economy, suggested that small amounts of progressive taxation could be beneficial to society whereby the rich are taxed more heavily than the poor. The name is a technical economic term and has nothing to do with causing progress.
It deserves note that [[Adam Smith]], an early proponent of a laissez-faire economy, suggested that small amounts of progressive taxation could be beneficial to society whereby the rich are taxed more heavily than the poor. The name is a technical economic term and has nothing to do with causing progress.
Progressive taxation is often times associated with [[Marxism]] due to the fact that both [[Marx]] and [[Engels]] were proponents of this form.<ref>[https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/ending-tax-socialism Ending Tax Socialism]</ref> The goal of the founders of communism was in their words: "to wrest, by degrees, all capital from the bourgeois, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state."
==Arguments for and against==
==Arguments for and against==
*[[Flat tax]]
*[[Flat tax]]
*[[Regressive tax]]
*[[Regressive tax]]
==References==
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{{Economic preparedness topics}}
{{Economic preparedness topics}}