Coolidge

by Amity Shlaes

the reason seems to be in the never satisfied mind of the American and in the ever desire to shift in hope of something better and in the vague idea of the working and farming classes that somebody is getting all the money while they get all the work.”

Income taxes were to be avoided because they were a symptom of fiscal weakness, “the resort only of nations which are always wrestling with financial deficits.” “Surely,” Morrill went on, “we cannot afford to decorate the annals of our Republic with a vile copy of this foreign excrescence.”

“no man’s income is permanent enough to admit of taxation, it will easily be a source of corruption.”

“If we wish to erect new structures, we must have a definite knowledge of the old foundations.”