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

On the recordJune 18, 1935
A tax upon inherited economic power is a tax upon static wealth, not upon that dynamic wealth.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Message to Congress on Tax Revision

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