> Citizenship-based taxation was brought in as a way of punishing deserters during the civil war and simply never dropped. Have a resource for this? From what

> Citizenship-based taxation was brought in as a way of punishing deserters during the civil war and simply never dropped. Have a resource for this? From what I remember, income tax started around the 1910's with the 16th amendment and grew to take out a large portion of citizens' income when prohibition severely cut sales tax proceeds from alcohol.