non-imposition

Updated: May 20, 2025

Their non-imposition, taken together with the entire character of our taxation program, the burden of which falls to an enormously preponderant extent upon the mainly industrial States and the business classes, not only proportionately, which, of course, is just, but discriminatingly, which is not just, seems hardly explainable except on the theory that the intention of those who were primarily in charge of framing that program was punitive and corrective and that they were influenced though I am willing to believe unconsciously by sectional and vocational partiality.

Otto Hermann Kahn - Government Ownership of Railroads, and War Taxation