Income Tax Act

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“The question for the country now is how to secure a more equal distribution of property among the people. There can be no republican institutions with vast masses of property permanently in a few hands, and large masses of voters without property.... Let no man get by inheritance, or by will, more than will produce at four per cent interest an income ... of fifteen thousand dollars] per year, or an estate of five hundred thousand dollars.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”
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