[Georgia Girl 2]

If you ask the average person on the street they will tell you we have always had the income tax. Most people don’t know that the income tax was devised to supposedly pay for w
WWI and it was supposed to sunset in 5 years. Before that the US ran very well on a sales tax.

[patlin]

You are COMPLETELY WRONG in your assumption that the ‘income’ tax began to pay for WWI. UTTERLY WRONG!

And the fact is, from its inception in 1862, the vast majority of Americans have never been subject to the income ‘excise’ tax!

http://losthorizons.com/Documents/The16th.htm