The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection
Learn about what other founding fathers thought about taxes and other facets of the new government through The Federalist Papers.
Thomas Jefferson's Vision
United States Capitol Building circa 1800Jefferson had specific ideas for how to make a republican democracy that did not perpetuate the aristocracy systems of Europe.
In his own words:
"I considered 4 of these bills, passed or reported, as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican."
"another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.”