Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “The Act of Congress which we are impugning before you is communistic in its purposes and tendencies, and is defended here upon principles as communistic, socialistic - what shall I call them - populistic as ever have been addressed to any political assembly in the world.” ~ Joseph H. Choate (1832-1917) American lawyer, diplomat, attorney who successfully challenged the Income Tax Act of 1894Source: United States Supreme Court, Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. (1898)