[slowhandluke]

It would have gone from 3% of net to 3% of gross to 3% of wealth which would be redefined as "income" every Jan. 1.

Maybe, but probably not. Had there been a limit in the 16th Amendment, it would have meant that the Progressives weren't that strong, or the anti-Progressives not that gullible.

I just think that we would have had a slower progression, had the conservatives been a bit more conservative in their grant of new taxing power.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

You discount the 97 years since.