[hinckley buzzard]

Just so the casual visitor doesn't get the wrong impression--the "Spanish American war tax" was repealed at the end of the war in the Phillipines, 1902. The federal excise tax has been reinstated and reduced or repealed several times over the last century, reinstated by LBJ during Viet Nam, and renewed since.

[discostu]

True. But when I’ve seen it called out on a bill it’s been listed as “Spanish American War tax”, probably because the law keeps getting reinstated rather than a new identical law written. One way or the other we’re paying a tax for a war that’s been over a long time, and they even tell us that, and nobody cares. Which is why I don’t think these Obamacare surcharges are really going to rile up the masses.