Showing posts with label 16th Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 16th Amendment. Show all posts
Thursday, August 19, 2021

The horror: Share paying no income taxes spikes from 44% in 2019 to 61% in 2020

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 Stereotypical story here . No one ever talks about how little Americans make. In 2019, you'll be happy to know, 61% of individual wage ...
Saturday, November 4, 2017

How to tax the rich and only the rich as originally intended in 1913, and solve a lot of problems

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In 1913 when the average Joe made about $800 a year, the first income tax under the 16th Amendment didn't worry him because he didn...
Monday, March 20, 2017

We told you in October 2012 that the income tax makes big government POSSIBLE

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Here : As an invention of progressivism the income tax eventually worked a revolution in government by allowing government to grow to ...

Brian Domitrovic and Larry Kudlow aren't the first to tell you the income tax made big government possible

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Their book, JFK and the Reagan Revolution , released in September 2016, makes the point well, as does this article in Forbes: And sur...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Repeal the income tax of 1913: It facilitates the massive growth of our enemy the administrative state

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After the passage of the income tax in 1913, outlays doubled from $2.9 billion in 1911 to $5.7 billion by 1917, and they keep doubling a...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

Dear Rush Limbaugh: Publius Decius Mus doesn't get it at all, and neither do you

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From the conclusion of the anonymous conservative intellectual, here : "The possibilities would seem to be: Caesarism, secession/...
Sunday, June 9, 2013

Nolan Finley Of The Detroit News Wants To Junk The IRS, And The Income Tax

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THIS IS NOT NOLAN FINLEY Here : "[R]eplace the income tax with a national sales tax. You’d pay tax on the money you spend instead of th...
Friday, October 28, 2011

Federal Revenues Came From Tariffs and Land Sales in First Half of 1800s, From Tariffs and Excises in Second Half

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A largely forgotten fact when discussing the history and meaning of US tax policy. Gary M. Anderson and Dolores T. Martin examined the role ...
Tuesday, October 25, 2011

The 1913 Income Tax Enabled Stark Increases to Government Revenues to Pay for WWI

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Revenues went up by a factor of 6 in three short years, and dramatically reversed federal reliance on tariffs, excises and other taxes of on...

By 1875 One Third of Federal Revenues Came From Taxes on Alcohol

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According to Daniel Okrent's Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition : After lapsing in 1802, the alcohol excise was reimposed unde...

Before The Income Tax, Federal Tariffs and Real Estate Taxes Punished Farmers

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From a helpful history of the estate tax from the IRS, here  (emphases added), which is unaware of the significant federal revenue contribut...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Prohibition: An Alliance Between Evangelical Christians and Criminals

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So said George Will last year in his review of Daniel Okrent's book which details how the women's war on men's drinking inspire...
Monday, May 2, 2011

Income Taxes are for Chumps, Capital Gains Taxes are for the Rich

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[Bruce] Bartlett, a former member of the Reagan White House, isn’t against the wealthy paying higher taxes. He’s that rare conservative who ...
Thursday, April 28, 2011

Rush Limbaugh Can't Think Before 1913

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"Look, in a classic sense, Trump's not a conservative, folks.  You don't promise to raise tariffs on the ChiComs 25%.  That...
Friday, December 10, 2010

The Religious Origins of the Income Tax's "Standard Deduction"

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The standard deduction was designed to make it easier for people to claim their charitable contributions, without itemizing them. Note how t...

Why Rush Limbaugh Can't Tell The Truth About Income Taxes

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Rush claims no one in America is undertaxed. He doesn't want to mention, of course, that nearly half of America doesn't pay income t...