The masses must at last come to believe that only excessive taxa-
tion of the rich can relieve them of the "burdensome leisure class" and
can thus be brought to accept such a thing as an income tax, a Marxist
principle smoothly slid into the Capitalistic framework in 1909 in the
United States. This even though the basic law of the United States
forbade it and even though communism at that time had been active
only a few years in America. So successful was the income tax law,
that had it been followed thoroughly, it could have brought the
United States and not Russia into the world scene as the first
Communist nation.
page 13. I wonder where that 1909 date comes from.