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The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s.
Thomas Piketty
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The U.S. is the country that invented progressive taxation of income and of inherited wealth in the 1910s and '20s. — Thomas Piketty

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Thomas Piketty was a Economist from France (1971–present).

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Thomas Piketty lived from 1971 – present.
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