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One of the big issues with instituting an income tax is it changed the relationship of every citizen with the government. Other than the postal service, the av
by jcadam 5y ago
One of the big issues with instituting an income tax is it changed the relationship of every citizen with the government. Other than the postal service, the average citizen almost never dealt with the federal government directly. Now, everyone knows and despises/fears the IRS.
- vineyardmike 5y agowho cares ? Thats not the world any significant group of persons have every lived in? We first got an income tax during the civil war, and the 16th ammendment before the 1920s. Thats the relationship we've had with the government. How many people alive "almost never dealt with the federal government directly" at any point in their life?