Alejandro Belluscio (baldusi@hotmail.com) on 2/11/03 wrote:
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>Dean Kent (dkent@realworldtech.com) on 2/10/03 wrote:
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>>Interested in Illinois (@.com) on 2/10/03 wrote:
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>>>If my HIStory is correct, the federal gov. tried to get income tax from citizens
>>>way before the Great War, and only when the Supreme Court rejected income tax as
>>>unconstitutional did the federal government pass an amendment to the constitution.
>>>And this was in 1913, again before the War To End All Wars.
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>>I guess I was thinking of the War Revenue Act(s), rather than the Sixteenth Amendment.
>>After looking about, it turns out that an income tax was imposed during the Civil
>>War (1867 to 1872), and then repealed. Subsequent attempts to reimpose one were
>>rebuffed by the Supreme Court, as you indicated, until ratification in 1913 of the 16th Amendment.
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>>Immediately after the 16th Amendment passed, Congress imposed an income tax - but
>>it affected less than 1% of the population. It was the War Revenue Act that brought
>>the graduated income tax that we have come to know and love. In other words, it
>>was a tax imposed to pay for the war, and was simply built upon and never repealed...
>>so I think the original comment still stands. :-)
>Well, I think that the 'problem' you see is on the level of taxation and not on
>the 'method' of taxing. I'd love to explain the economics, but I'll refrain for
>it being OT and quite boring for the general people. But let's just say that very
>efficient (since it get's most of the incentive of the economy intact) and it's
>correctly applicable to the federal government (else you could get your legal address
>to wherever has the lower tax while actually working somewhere else). It's a lot
>better than salary tax, customs tax, public utilities tax, revenue tax and some
>other much worse kludges that I have the pleasure of pay in my not voted goverment
>that we Argentinians happen to enjoy nowadays. And we didn't had a 'no taxation
>without representation' campaign in our history so generaly the people is not aware of this little right we should have.
>Regarding the level of taxation, I'll alse refrain myself because Americans don't
>usually like my views about their government and what I belevie to be it's true interest.


Isn't salary tax equivalent to income tax? And revenue tax similar to sales tax? I assume customs tax is tariffs right?

What do you mean by saying that income tax is very efficient / 'incentive of economy intact'?

The slogan 'No taxation w/o representation' was not actually true in the new Republic since a very small amount of the populace could have their views represented. It was a conflict over competing visions of the 'new continent.

Please do share your views about the level of taxation here and the federal government.

Sincerely,