The focus should be on taxing progressively using a transparent structure that yields the kind of buoyant revenues we need from personal income taxation.

They do not stop a government using progressive income taxation and provides the long-run supply of capital needed to fund business investment.

Many states' constitutions were interpreted as barring direct income taxation, and franchise taxes were seen as legal ways to evade these bars.

The voluntary pension insurance fees or transfers to a personal pension account are credited in earned income taxation up to 5000 per year.

The founders of the party saw that as being unfair to the poorest in society and wanted to increase the reliance on income taxation instead.