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The first president to call for progressive taxation
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."
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."
The first American President to ever call for progressive taxation was [[Theodore Roosevelt]].<ref>1907 State of the Union address</ref> His hand-picked successor Taft was able to get the measure started, as well as having it enshrined as a constitutional amendment.
==Arguments for and against==
==Arguments for and against==