Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

This whole thing can be done, as far as we can see at the present time, with a tax standard.

Excerpts from the Press Conference

06/14/1937

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I don't see why not.

I think this is going to be the dullest for news on record.

I do not believe that our present system of taxation completely meets this test.

A tax upon inherited economic power is a tax upon static wealth, not upon that dynamic wealth.