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To: FLT-bird
So your argument is that because the SCOTUS lacked the guts to hear a case before the income tax was repealed, it was therefore Constitutional?...

I never said that. I simply asked when the court found the Civil War income tax unconstitutional.

332 posted on 03/26/2026 7:04:31 AM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
I never said that. I simply asked when the court found the Civil War income tax unconstitutional.

Well then this whole exchange has simply backed up what I said from the start which is that in a war, governments will resort to anything they think necessary to win. The fact that the Confederate government later imposed high tariffs to raise money for the war of national survival they were engaged in does not mean they somehow never wanted a high tariff or did not really object to high tariffs being imposed on them.

333 posted on 03/26/2026 7:11:42 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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