How did this country survive for more than 100 years without an income tax?

WHERE DID THE ROADS COME FROM?

No entitlements?

Fighting multiple wars, no less.

I need to find a good book on the history of the federal income tax. I'd love to know how they rationalized it. I imagine it was kinda like Obamacare getting passed.

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I need to find a good book on the history of the federal income tax. I'd love to know how they rationalized it. I imagine it was kinda like Obamacare getting passed.

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Same time as the FED.

the creature from jekyl Island is a great book on the topic.

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I need to find a good book on the history of the federal income tax. I'd love to know how they rationalized it. I imagine it was kinda like Obamacare getting passed.

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The most interesting tidbit about the process was the problem of actual collection. Tax collectors have been attacked or killed throughout history.

The govt went to the president of Sears and Roebuck for advice. He came up with the idea of withholding. 'Don't ask them to send it in. Take it before they get paid.'

Tarrifs

Yeah. I know the FED, Income Tax, and the endless war cycle all started at the same time. I'll look for that book.


Thanks,

It's is an antique monstrosity that was conceived of around the Civil War.

It has morphed from a revenue tool to a social control tool.

It needs to be abolished.

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with a consumption tax, we could fund everything we need

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I agree, so long as food and medicine (plus medical care) is exempt.

Everyone has skin in the game at that point--those of us with regular jobs, those who work in the cash economy, the deadbeat, the welfare baby mama--and can all share.

In theory socialists should like this idea as it is more in tune with their "shared sacrifice" views (of course, they only want the "little people" to do any sharing).