Question: Thomas Paine and income tax

Here's a question that I noted some years back
when first I read this book and it has pestered
my mind ever since. Can anyone answer this?

In Iorwerth Prothero's ARTISANS AND POLITICS
IN EARLY 19TH CENTURY LONDON: JOHN GAST
AND HIS TIMES (U. of Louisiana Press, 1979), the
author makes the claim that Thomas Paine wanted
the British taxation system to be "replaced by an
income tax which above £23,000 a year should
be 100%."

Is Prothero correct? Honestly, I don't recall it, if so.
As I recall, Paine proposes a tax of 20 Shillings per
pound for the £23,000 estate and hoped it would
encourage the break-up or sell-off large holdings.

Laurie Anderson does Thomas Paine.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/reviews/album-laurie-anderson-homeland-nonesuch-2003151.html

And another warm thanks for the link to frequent contributor
and Paine friend Harvey J. Kaye.

Thomas Paine, folk music, and human rights.

Thanks to historian and Thomas Paine biographer
Harvey J. Kaye for forwarding this very fine article at:

http://www.folkworks.org/content/view/35703/106/

Paine portrait vandalized 2.

Don't miss the latest details. Just click on the link to the right of this post entitled "A Mystery of Two Portraits of Paine" or just click this link http://kenburchell.blogspot.com/p/mystery-of-two-paine-portraits.html

Thomas Paine portrait vandalized.

 An attempt has been made to contact the curators at the museum
in order to determine the nature of the "portrait" (most likely a print)
and details of the incident.

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/12/1676872/vandalism-discovered-at-central.html

Thomas Paine on vice.

"An association of vices will reduce us more than the sword." Thomas Paine, American Crisis IX, 1780.

Thomas Paine on property rights.

"There could be no such thing as landed property originally. Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity on any part of it." Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice, 1796.