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The 16th Amendment: How the U.S. Federal Income Tax Became D.C.’s Favorite Political Weapon

The American Revolution was sparked in part by unjust taxation. After all, the colonists in Boston rebelled against Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” and summarily tossed English tea into the harbor in protest in 1773.

Nowadays Americans collectively spend more than 6 billion hours each year filling out tax forms, keeping records, and learning new tax rules according to the Office of Management and Budget. Complying with the byzantine U.S. tax code is estimated to cost the American economy hundreds of billions of dollars annually – time and money that could otherwise be used for more productive activities like entrepreneurship and investment, or just more family and leisure time.

The majority of these six billion hours sacrificed by Americans to Washington each year goes to complying with a tax that didn’t even exist until 100 years ago – the federal income tax.

Worse still, this tax has become a political weapon for Washington to incentivize certain activities (home ownership, charitable giving, etc.) and to punish others. It’s a tax that follows Americans wherever they go in the world, and it’s one that was originally sold to the American people by President Woodrow Wilson as a means of “soaking the rich” during the so-called Gilded Age.

How did a country that was founded on the concept of limited government come to embrace such a draconian policy? And what does it say about Washington that tax reform has become synonymous with class warfare and corporate lobbyists?

Read on to learn the history of the 16th Amendment – which authorized the federal collection of an income tax – and how that power has ultimately meant the growth of Washington at the expense of just about everyone else.

The rest is here:

https://ammo.com/articles/us-federal-income-tax-guide-16th-amendment-history

Truth

They haven’t seen anything yet

“Furious voters are losing trust in governments and will wreck the world order, warns IMF

The problems were highlighted in a blog by IMF deputy managing director David Lipton.

He wrote: ‘National governance has in many respects fallen into disrepute – witness the turmoil resulting from recent elections in many countries.’

Lipton said this resentment will make it far harder for taxpayers’ money to be used to shore up banks during the next crisis.

And he warned that if a future recession harms ordinary workers and small businessmen, states will come under pressure to financially support these people as they did for the banks in 2008.

This could push up public sector debt to dangerously high levels.

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No shit

And now, from one of our very own congress critters..

Poor Mittens