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Victoria C. Woodhull: “When a person worth millions, dies, instead of leaving it to his children, who have no more title to it than anybody…”

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When a person worth millions, dies, instead of leaving it to his children, who have no more title to it than anybody else’s children have, it must revert to the people, who really produced it.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull proposes that wealth should revert to the public rather than being inherited by the wealthy.

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