[Ads-l] Antedating of "Income Tax"

[Joel Berson]

I disbelieve the Tea Party.  It was the monarchial, reactionary Tory government of post-war Britain, I surmise considerably more in debt after that war than after its previous imperial wars, one of them being the French and Indian War, for which it had tried to tax the colonies, but its loss in its latest such war (as of Fred's 1788) put a stop to that.

But perhaps the Tea Party would accept George III as a substitute for Karl Marx.  After all, it was his tax that their eponym rebelled against.

Joel

      From: Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
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In Tea Party circles it is claimed that Karl Marx invented the concept of
"income tax."

So who ya gonna believe?

JL

On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:23 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> income tax (OED 1799)
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> 1788 George Edwards _The Aggrandisement and National Perfection of Great
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> itain_ I. 241 (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)  We shall ...
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> Income Tax.
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