In his story "Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow," published in the mid-1950s:

"Good morning, sir. I represent the Society for the Propogation and Eventual Adoption of the A.D. Spooner Graduated Income Tax Plan. As perhaps you know, this plan calls for an income tax which increases in inverse proportion to income, so that the wealthy are exempted and the poor taxed out of existence. Within five years, Mr. Spooner estimates, poverty would be eliminated; within ten a thing not even of memory."

The Wall Street Journal should stand reproached for its timidity.

cordially,