Taxes: The price we pay for a civilized society?

[Acala]

Our current Federal income tax has its roots going back to 1862.

Yes. A temporary income tax was enacted (to support war, of course) but then repealed after the civil war. So what I said was true: the era from the close of the civil war to 1913 was free from Federal income tax AND saw perhaps the greatest increase in prosperity in world history.

[Danke]

Yes. A temporary income tax was enacted (to support war, of course) but then repealed after the civil war. So what I said was true: the era from the close of the civil war to 1913 was free from Federal income tax AND saw perhaps the greatest increase in prosperity in world history.

No, that Income tax act (along with many others) is still very much alive. The was a portion that the Pollock case decided that was unconstitutional, but the 16th A fixed that part. The Income tax was only temporarily suspended in 1873.

[Neil Desmond]

With all this crime, poverty, homelessness, warmongering, killing of unborn children, deception by the press, government & law enforcement corruption, huge prison population, etc., our society is far from civilized; if that's what taxes is for then I want a refund for breach of contract!