[ml/nj]

there was no income tax until the Sixteenth Amendment was ratified in 1913.

ML/NJ

[cherry]

its the govt employees....all of them...military included....

being a fireman, a soldier, a teacher, etc...used to be more vocation than money maker....now, they live like kings and queens and the govt pays them the same way even when they "retire" at age 55 or younger for military...