The Income Tax: Lessons from the Sixteenth Amendment

Tags: Law, Taxes and Spending

05/08/2023 Mark Brandly

The passage of an income tax in the early twentieth century was an enormous shift toward a far more centralized and powerful US state.

Original Article: "The Income Tax: Lessons from the Sixteenth Amendment"

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