Free Traders love income taxes and hate tariffs. The bastards....
Yup!
The income tax is a failed experiment.
It should go the way of that other failed constitutional experiment, prohibition.
A century is enough for the property tax and sole proprietorship tax.
No time is short enough for impact fees and homeowners’ association fees, and national sales taxes are a radical communist answer.
Income and real property taxes are just the rent you pay for the privilege of living on king government’s land, and the bar to entry to join the speculative class. Outside of the internet, where have you seen the next Thomas Edison? Maybe in china or india, but not here. Multiple generations have been taught that we cannot compete against cheap foreign labor, and now that is coming back to bite us in the ass.
Alexander Hamilton is not to blame for what we see now.
Liberals, beginning in earnest with Woodrow Wilson onward, ARE.
Taft proposed a Constitutional amendment for an income tax in 1909. It was passed by the House and Senate, and then ratified by the states in early 1913.
How did they get this past the people?
By claiming it to be only a very small percentage of income and that it only applied to the very wealthy.
My, how times change when you consider the politician's thirst for ever more revenue to spend.