On The 100th Anniversary of the Income Tax

[Chris]

This was the beginning of the end of freedom in the US:

On The 100th Anniversary of the Income Tax (http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/10/on-the-100th-anniversary-of-the-income-tax/)


Woodrow Wilson signed the Income Tax into law one hundred years ago today. As direct taxation of Americans was prohibited by the Constitution, a constitutional amendment was necessary before what would become the Revenue Act of 1913 could be legally imposed. The income tax, and the enabling amendment, were sold to the voters as necessary for a tax on rich people that would mean lower taxes and cheaper goods (due to lowered tariffs) for everyone else. Only one percent of the population was subject to the tax then, and the tax rate was one percent. The voters need not worry, they were told, because regular people would never ever pay the income tax.

A Brief Income Tax Reader:

Frank Chodorov :: Income Tax: Root of All Evil (http://mises.org/document/990/)

The Origin of the Income Tax - Adam Young – Mises Daily (http://mises.org/daily/1597)

Real Tax Reform – Laurence M. Vance – Mises Daily (http://mises.org/daily/2552)

The Consumption Tax: A Critique – Murray N. Rothbard – Mises Daily (http://mises.org/daily/1768)

“The Tax Was Most Popular Before It Was Laid” :: The Circle Bastiat (http://bastiat.mises.org/2013/04/the-tax-was-most-popular-before-it-was-laid/)

1040 Plunder – Lee S. Wishing – Mises Daily (http://mises.org/daily/1779)


Chodorov's is perhaps the best.

[Codename Section]

Wilson was a piece of shit.

[Green Arrow]

The same guy who gave us the Federal Reserve also gave us the income tax and set a worldwide precedent for the use of nuclear weapons on innocent civilian populations.

Yeah, not exactly the most morally upstanding of people, that's for sure.

[The Xl]

I echo the sentiments the two gentlemen above me have in regards to Wilson.

[Contrails]

The same guy who gave us the Federal Reserve also gave us the income tax and set a worldwide precedent for the use of nuclear weapons on innocent civilian populations.

Yeah, not exactly the most morally upstanding of people, that's for sure.

Could you explain the highlighted text?

[Codename Section]

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[Green Arrow]

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Always loved Lysander Spooner.

[Green Arrow]

Could you explain the highlighted text?

...no, no I cannot. I was totally thinking about Truman there for some reason when I was talking about Wilson.

Well, that's embarrassing.

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[Codename Section]

...no, no I cannot. I was totally thinking about Truman there for some reason when I was talking about Wilson.

Well, that's embarrassing.

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Well, but Wilson was a rat bastard so that was probably why? :D

[Green Arrow]

Well, but Wilson was a rat bastard so that was probably why? :D

Yeah, really. He would have done it too :tongue:

[TheInternet]

I'm sure anyone who was arguing "slippery slope" 100 years ago was told it was a logical fallacy.

[Chris]

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A citation you are no doubt familiar with:

"But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: 'Your money, or your life.' And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat. The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the roadside, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful. The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a 'protector,' and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to 'protect' those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful 'sovereign,' on account of the 'protection' he affords you. He does not keep 'protecting' you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villanies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave."

~Lysander Spooner