Abe also instituted an Income Tax, which was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.. History never ceases to amaze me..
The Civil War-era income tax was held constitutional by the SCOTUS, in a case called Springer v. U.S. It was the 1895 income tax which was held unconstitutional.
133 posted on 08/25/2004 2:46:39 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian
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