Quote Originally Posted by barnesfoto View Post
or is it "McDonnel" ....


"It was Thomas Jefferson who called for "A wise and frugal Government which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry ....and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned..." He was right.

more:http://voices.washingtonpost.com/vir...nnells_re.html
it was also Jefferson who suggested a progressive income tax with a geometric increase in the rate. he was right there, too"

Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise [[Letter to Madison, 1785)