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What do we mean by left wing or right wing? People started using
the language of a political spectrum when early twentieth-century
political parties began to distinguish their platforms by offering
different approaches to income distribution. The Terrific Engine
examines how income taxation modernized political language over the
period from the 1911 election through the Second World War. David
Tough controversially argues that income taxation was established
by popular demand, first to replace existing taxes and then to
address income inequality through equalizing social programs. And,
in establishing a clear basis for party differences, income
taxation made elections significantly more democratic.
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