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Show Income Tax Has Never Had Great Popularity Imaginative petrous seein never to tire of conjecturing as to which of modern man's accomplishments would most astound our ancestors. lue motorcar or the airplane Is usually the favorite, but if one could select a chosen few, comprising many of the kings of England along with their councilors, probably the achievement achieve-ment which would bulk lurgest In their eyes would be the collection of the income tax. Starting with Edward III, who distinguished dis-tinguished himself by collecting .$130,-000 .$130,-000 by u graduated capital levy In 13121 without causing a revolution, the history of the efforts of the rulers of our race to yoke us with this burden Is interesting. Edward Ill's levy was very modest, says A. G. D. In the Winnipeg Win-nipeg Free Press. It ranged from $30 to 8 cents, according to the position of the taxpayer. Richard II his ill-starred grand-sou grand-sou almost lost his throne before he hud got firmly seated on it, because he levied a still more modest tax, ranging rang-ing from $o to 8 cents. Wat Tyler, before he was murdered, so convinced the rulers of Britain that nn Income tax was not a practical form of taxation taxa-tion that it was more than 200 years before such a levy was aguin attempted. |