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The first US income tax was in 1861, I find it hard to believe "we got along" when we held a significant portion of the population as literal slaves.
by minikites 5y ago
The first US income tax was in 1861, I find it hard to believe "we got along" when we held a significant portion of the population as literal slaves.
- mc32 5y agoThat's very true for the south. Yet, the north still got on and did even better than the south. Never the less, you can go to any other place which didn't have slaves and they still got on without income taxes. And, if you go to parts of the middle east where slavery exists today, income taxes have not prevented it, so it's beside the point.