Josh Hill wrote:
> Depends on the tax. Some are regressive, in that they hit the poor
> hardest. But the income tax was always intended to be progressive --
> in fact, when first enacted, it applied /only/ to the rich. As Teddy
> Roosvelt put it, "The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation
> to the state." That's a principle that's been followed since ancient
> times.

In Republican Rome, only the rich were drafted. The shift to an 
all-volunteer army made up mainly of the poor was one of the main steps 
that led to the Republic's collapse.

-- 
John W. Kennedy
"The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and 
Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. 
The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being 
corrected."
   -- G. K. Chesterton
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