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A progressive tax should chiefly aim to end the influence of primogeniture
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- Thomas Paine Pamphleteer and revolutionary (1737 to 1809)
But the chief object of this progressive tax (besides the justice of rendering taxes more equal than they are) is, as already stated, to extirpate the overgrown influence arising from the unnatural law of primogeniture, and which is one of the principal sources of corruption at elections.
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↗Rights of Man (1791-1792)gutenberg.org
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