2007-07-12 03:20:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
But what about income tax, travolta?
2007-07-12 03:27:22 · update #1
Very unlikely. But he also would not have supported our bloated Federal government either.
2007-07-12 03:23:04 · answer #1 · answered by Brian 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it since there was no federal income tax untill after WWll. Interesting, isn't it? The people were told the income tax would be used only to pay for the war and would be dissolved as soon as it did. The later congress' realized they had an endless supply of money to buy voter with. What people don't realize is, the more government wants to "give" us, the more it costs us in taxes.
Edit:
Travolta, those quotes are about property taxes, import taxes and estate taxes.
I question that last quote, it sounds like Jefferson was a big believer in "emminent domain". If thats true, he felt that the government could just come and take any land they want for "public good". I don't believe he would have supported that.
2007-07-12 03:29:43 · answer #2 · answered by madd texan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably not. However he would support state income taxes. His vision was that the states should be more independant of the Fed. In which case, these days, the 'Kansas-like' states would be bankrupt.
For some reason- republicans think a sudden end to income taxes would leave them with more money. Granted they would have a higher dollar amount, but that dollar would be worth a lot less.
If the government never told you how much they were taking in taxes, you'd never even notice. Republicans just march in lock step to a flawed ideology. In the end they're just looking to keep the fat cat fat. Also known as aristocracy and Thomas Jefferson was dead set against that.
2007-07-12 03:47:22 · answer #3 · answered by Incognito 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Didn't Theodore Roosevelt, a great Republican President (though no fan of Jefferson, yet stuck between him and big Jefferson fan Abe Lincoln on Mount Rushmore) also support a progressive estate tax, and a graduated income tax to boot?
2016-05-20 09:13:31 · answer #4 · answered by ann 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He would.
Thomas Jefferson is quoted saying he supported an progressive estate tax based on the size of the estate.
I'll find the quote for you.
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Haven't found that exact quote yet, but I will find it. I will also reference each of the bottom qutoes straight from the Library of Congress. Stay tuned...
"Whenever there is 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." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785. ME 19:18, Papers 8:682
"We are all the more reconciled to the tax on importation, because it falls exclusively on the rich...In fact, the poor man in this country who uses nothing but what is made within his own farm or family, or within the United States, pays not a farthing of tax to the general government...the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone..."
- Thomas Jefferson, 1811.
"[The] unequal division of property... occasions the numberless instances of wretchedness which... is to be observed all over Europe." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785. ME 19:17, Papers 8:681
"I am conscious that an equal division of property is impracticable. But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1785. ME 19:17, Papers 8:682
2007-07-12 03:24:05 · answer #5 · answered by trovalta_stinks_2 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Are you refusing to pay tax?
Are you refusing to support our troops by not paying tax = no weapons!!!?
Are you an American?
I am whiter than you because I don't complain!!! I just obey and make fun of less pale skin folks.
Yes, Thomas Jefferson would have supported the income tax so he could hire more black women!!!
2007-07-12 03:33:49 · answer #6 · answered by Whitest_American 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thomas Jefferson is dead, dude. This is a democracy: the people decide. Jefferson would have wanted it that way.
2007-07-12 03:24:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Don't you rich boys and rich boys' b-kissers think you should pay for the Iraq war, since you have more property to protect?
2007-07-12 03:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by topink 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, he wouldn't support much of anything in our modern government.
2007-07-12 03:23:44 · answer #9 · answered by firstythirsty 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋