[JohnGalt]

I'm still trying to wrap my mind around the 'Progressives' who gave the federalis the power of direct taxation and the power to 'print the difference' in the 19-teens.

Ugh.

[sheltonmac]

A direct tax on income is born (16th Amendment), state governments give up their representation in Congress (17th Amendment), World War I, Prohibition (18th Amendment); what a decade that must have been. Talk about a self-destructive generation.