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" ... All of this contributes to the impression that the income tax came in some part to “bind up the nation’s wounds.” Vindictiveness was too hard to stave off in the immediate aftermath of 1865. After a generation and a half, the Yanks would reduce the tariff and permit themselves to be taxed at their heart, on their income, and they certainly had more income than could be found in the realm of the old Rebs. Since the income tax at first would hit only high earners, and them modestly, it also was a gesture of comity towards the working class and gentleness all around. There even was a hint of relaxing the rapaciousness against African-Americans, as expressed by Underwood’s example. How reconciling it was to a nation that rather recently (only two score and eight years before) had been rent to its core. ... "
" ... Second, Nadella shifted away from “rapaciousness.” ... "