Did not know that. And the withholding tax was implemented as I understand it during WWII, and was to have been eliminated once the war was over.
Have a memory of the LAST broadcast/commentary done by David Brinkley was a diatribe against the NEVER rescinded withholding tax— because the government had the money “up front” and it was too much of a good thing to give up. Will have to find the broadcast on this. Brinkley was derided by his own outgoing network about his “outdated ideas”. Seriously- this happened and was suppressed or written out.
Right. There was a telephone tax enacted in 1898 to pay for the Spanish-American War.
The tax wasn't eliminated until 2006.