Quote – Andrew W. Mellon.

One of the foundations of our American civilization is equality of opportunity, which presupposes the right of each man to enjoy the fruits of his labor after contributing his fair share to the support of the Government, which protects him and his property. But that is a very different matter from confiscating a part of his wealth, not because the country requires it for the prosecution of a war or some other purpose, but because he seems to have more money than he needs.

Andrew W. Mellon, Taxation: The People's Business. (New York: The Macmillan Company, April 1924), 71-72.

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