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To: hanamizu
I think it was during WWII that withholding was introduced as well.

Correct. To fund the war. It was supposed to be temporary.

20 posted on 04/14/2017 10:25:00 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: Hyman Roth

It was supposed to be temporary.


Well, three quarters of a century could be thought of as ‘temporary’. But I think the temporary phone tax of the Spanish American war lasted even longer.


25 posted on 04/14/2017 10:32:03 AM PDT by hanamizu
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