Excerpt from Progressive Taxation in Theory and Practice
Speaking, therefore, the distinction ought to be drawn, not between proportion and progression, but between two kinds Of proportion - regular proportion and progressive proportion. Again, the progression, if we adopt the term, may itself be either proportional or progressive: a pro portional progression being an increase Of the rate at an arithmetical ratio, a progressive progression being an in crease at a geometrical ratio.
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