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If Obama can be called a Socialist by some...by the same criteria, so must Reagan. But the Ideas go back much further, and are primarily Republican.
[h=6]"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 or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. If for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be provided to those excluded from the appropriation." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, October 28, 1785
"I believe it can be sustained, because it does not increase the tax upon the 'many poor' but upon the 'wealthy few' ... If, however, the wealthy should ... complain of the change, ... they are not sufficiently numerous to carry the elections." - Abraham Lincoln, Letter to William S. Wait, March 2, 1839[/h]
[h=6]"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 or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right. The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on. If for the encouragement of industry we allow it to be appropriated, we must take care that other employment be provided to those excluded from the appropriation." - Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, October 28, 1785
"I believe it can be sustained, because it does not increase the tax upon the 'many poor' but upon the 'wealthy few' ... If, however, the wealthy should ... complain of the change, ... they are not sufficiently numerous to carry the elections." - Abraham Lincoln, Letter to William S. Wait, March 2, 1839[/h]
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