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To: edwinland

Wilson was also the kind soul that brought us the federal income tax

(the campaign for which used the slogan: “the average working man will never pay a single dime in the income tax!”

it was sold as a “progressive” measure to punish the railroad, steel, and banking barons (you know, what the commies now call “the 1%”)


2 posted on 07/03/2020 4:09:52 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, theyÂ’re excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: faithhopecharity

“Wilson was also the kind soul that brought us the federal income tax”

It was Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, plus the 13th Amendment that both sponsored, but why let inconvenient fact get in the way?

Most everyone here believes it was Wilson anyway, because our usual empty headed celebrity conservatives all parrot that line.


14 posted on 07/04/2020 10:36:18 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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