Thomas Jefferson
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Legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise. 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's letter to James Madison, founders.archives.gov. October 28, 1785.

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