Representative James Garfield, who later became president, called a graduated tax unconstitutional.

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The truly poor could get assistance through a graduated tax.

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If we want to defer tax on all savings as long as possible, we would need to go to a graduated consumption tax.

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The ban on stockmarket repatriations was replaced with a graduated exit tax.

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He split the difference and instituted the first graduated income tax, raised inheritance and business taxes, and sold war bonds and other instruments, like the three-cent Victory Stamp signed by Wilson that's on display here.

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We demand a graduated income tax.

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The decline, he says, began with the Progressive era of the early twentieth century, in particular with the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson, when both the Federal Reserve System and the graduated federal income tax came into existence.

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