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Theodore Roosevelt Tax Plan to Curtail Rising Oligarchy

Theodore Roosevelt Tax Plan to Curtail Rising Oligarchy

Inheritance Taxes Can Succeed Where Wealth Levies Cannot

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Nov 01, 2021
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Theodore Roosevelt has returned to public consciousness in recent years. In part this is a cyclical phenomenon. When people sense a failure of national leadership, TR tends to emerge as a standard if not an ideal.

In our moment there’s an additional factor: many of our national challenges echo those of the early twentieth century.

Roosevelt emerged as a …

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