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Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes

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The Rise and Fall of the Income Tax

By 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was established and taxes on personal income became official. But just four years later, the system started to shift. The Roosevelt administration deliberately tied that income tax to the effort to beat the empire of Japan and Nazi Germany. We pick up the conversation with historian Molly Mitchell Moore.

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