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Old 11-06-2014, 11:36 AM
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Woodrow Wilson and XVI Amendment - this is when the DISASTER struck this country!!! February 1913
Actually, Lincoln started the ball rolling......

"Income Tax, despite the remonstrations of many Republican pundits and politicians, was not the brainchild of Woodrow Wilson but of Abraham Lincoln, whose congress enacted the Revenue Act of 1861 as a temporary measure to fund his government during the Civil War. Income tax remained in force after the war, funding reconstruction until the Supreme Court declared the Income Tax Bill of 1894 unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co (1895). Fifteen years later, another Republican U.S. President would champion federal income tax, this time as an amendment to the Constitution of 1787. Specifically, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2% federal income tax on corporations by way of excise duties. The President also proposed, on June 16th, 1909, a constitutional amendment to legalize income tax. Less than a month later, the resolution now known as the Sixteenth Amendment, was passed by the 61st U.S. Congress."
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