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Felix Adler: The Maximum Wage Prophet

Felix Adler was the founder of the Ethical Culture Society. This short study analyses a New York Times article on a conference given by Adler in 1880 on the subject of social reform. In this conference, given at a time where there was no income tax in the United States, Adler proposed a graded tax on incomes in response to J.S. Mill’s flat tax proposal. However, Adler also pushed the logic of progressivity to its natural outcome and suggested an income cap, a tax-bracket at which the rate of taxation is 100 %. To my knowledge, this is the first documented proposal for an income cap, what is sometimes referred to nowadays as a “maximum wage”.