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Summary: The first U.S. income taxes were levied in 1861 to help fund the Civil War. That tax, along with the Wilson Gorman Tariff income tax, was repealed in 1895, but in 1913, a constitutional amendment was passed allowing the government to levy federal income taxes. Find out how the government uses taxes to fun national defense and public services with information from a political analyst and blogger in this free video on taxes.
Bill Scher is a professional political blogger and one of the six original bloggers to have famously met with Bill Clinton at his Harlem office. He works for several Washington DC...read more
"Hi, this is Bill Scher from LiberalOasis.com. What is the history of the United States income tax? Well taxes are essential to having a functioning government that provides for the national defense, it provides services to all its citizens and the income tax is the most fair way to make sure that the citizens fund their government on the basis of who has the greatest ability to fund government without undercutting their quality of life or providing for their families. Well the very first income tax was levied in eighteen-sixty-one, to help fund the Civil War. And there was a income tax after that passed in eighteen-ninety-four called the Wilson Gorman Tariff. However those provisions were struck down by an eighteen-ninety-five Supreme Court decision. And so the US government's ability to fund its operations through income tax was severely restricted between then and nineteen-thirteen. In nineteen-thirteen an amendment to the United States constitution explicitly gave the United States government the authority to levy federal income taxes which have been a staple and a main revenue source for the United States government and its operations and services ever since."
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