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Libertard History Lesson: Far-leftist Thomas Jefferson supported progressive taxation, said property rights derive from governments and believed that private property accumulation violates the natural rights of man! Seriously, dude, it’s like he’s reading straight from the Leninist handbook!

books.google.com -- While it is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from Nature at all ... it is considered by those who have seriously considered the subject, that no one has, of natural right, a separate property in an acre of land ... Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. ... 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 or property in geometrical progression as they rise. Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.