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twetch#2022 6.4y

1sNJWU…Qwas Key · twetch

During the Civil War Congress passed the Revenue Act of 1861 which included a tax on personal incomes to help pay war expenses. The tax was repealed ten years later.

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twetch#15875 6.4y

148sxa…cGeq Key · twetch

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fuck that shit was weak!

also known as the Underwood Tariff or the Underwood-Simmons Act
re-established that shit frawg and you know it!
it was signed off by Yo Mama Woodrow Wilson in 1913 the same year as

en.wikipedia.org Revenue Act of 1913 - Wikipedia

twetch#15875 6.5y

twetch#15875 6.4y

148sxa…cGeq Key · twetch

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welcome back to slavery motherfucker

twetch#15632 6.4y

1GSFgv…GE3F Key · twetch

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Alcohol tax used to make up ~ 40 percent of US Government revenues. After prohibition was introduced in some states 1914 and nationwide in 1920, US needed another way to raise funds and hence income tax was reintroduced. Never to be repealed again :-/

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