Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes
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The 16th Amendment to the Constitution Codified Income Tax
The 16th Amendment to the Constitution would codify an income tax. It was passed in 1913 after a Supreme Court ruling, but most people weren't paying it. That changed when the US gets into the First World War and there is debate over who's paying for that war. The income tax pays for not one but two world wars.
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