Interesting. Who originated the federal income tax. NOT Democrats. It was those darn Repubicans.

From Wikipedia

On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft (A Republican), in an address to Congress, proposed a 2% federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.

An income tax amendment to the Constitution was first proposed by Senator Norris Brown (A Republican) of Nebraska. He submitted two proposals, Senate Resolutions Nos. 25 and 39. The amendment proposal finally accepted was Senate Joint Resolution No. 40, introduced by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (A Republican) of Rhode Island, the Senate majority leader and Finance Committee Chairman.

On July 12, 1909, the resolution proposing the Sixteenth Amendment was passed by the Sixty-first Congress and submitted to the state legislatures. Support for the income tax was strongest in the western states and opposition was strongest in the northeastern states.[

In 1910, New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes (A Republican), shortly before becoming a Supreme Court justice, spoke out against the income tax amendment. While he supported the idea of a federal income tax, Hughes believed the words "from whatever source derived" in the proposed amendment implied that the federal government would have the power to tax state and municipal bonds. He believed this would excessively centralize governmental power and "would make it impossible for the state to keep any property"

The presidential election of 1912 was contested between three advocates of an income tax.[20] Taft (A Repubican); Theodore Roosevelt (A Republican) and Woodrow Wilson (A Democrat)

On February 25, 1913, Secretary of State Philander Knox proclaimed that the amendment had been ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states; thus, it had become part of the Constitution. The Revenue Act of 1913 was enacted shortly thereafter.

According to the United States Government Printing Office, the following states ratified the amendment:

1.Alabama (August 10, 1909)
2.Kentucky (February 8, 1910)
3.South Carolina (February 19, 1910)
4.Illinois (March 1, 1910)
5.Mississippi (March 7, 1910)
6.Oklahoma (March 10, 1910)
7.Maryland (April 8, 1910)
8.Georgia (August 3, 1910)
9.Texas (August 16, 1910)
10.Ohio (January 19, 1911)
11.Idaho (January 20, 1911)
12.Oregon (January 23, 1911)
13.Washington (January 26, 1911)
14.Montana (January 27, 1911)
15.Indiana (January 30, 1911)
16.California (January 31, 1911)
17.Nevada (January 31, 1911)
18.South Dakota (February 1, 1911)
19.Nebraska (February 9, 1911)
20.North Carolina (February 11, 1911)
21.Colorado (February 15, 1911)
22.North Dakota (February 17, 1911)
23.Michigan (February 23, 1911)
24.Iowa (February 24, 1911)
25.Kansas (March 2, 1911)
26.Missouri (March 16, 1911)
27.Maine (March 31, 1911)
28.Tennessee (April 7, 1911)
29.Arkansas (April 22, 1911), after having previously rejected the amendment
30.Wisconsin (May 16, 1911)
31.New York (July 12, 1911)
32.Arizona (April 3, 1912)
33.Minnesota (June 11, 1912)
34.Louisiana (June 28, 1912)
35.West Virginia (January 31, 1913)
36.Delaware (February 3, 1913)

Ratification (by the requisite 36 states) was completed on February 3, 1913 with the ratification by Delaware. The amendment was subsequently ratified by the following states, bringing the total number of ratifying states to forty-two of the forty-eight then existing:

37. New Mexico (February 3, 1913)
38. Wyoming (February 3, 1913)
39. New Jersey (February 4, 1913)
40. Vermont (February 19, 1913)
41. Massachusetts (March 4, 1913)
42. New Hampshire (March 7, 1913), after rejecting the amendment on March 2, 1911

The legislatures of the following states rejected the amendment without ever subsequently ratifying it:

Connecticut
Rhode Island
Utah
Virginia

The legislatures of the following states never considered the proposed amendment:

Florida
Pennsylvania- Hey - don't blame me. I'm from Pennsylvania

Sowing what you reap.

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One of my uncles had a story about the first time he had to pay the income tax..

It was in 1927 (plus or minus one year). He owed about $5.00. Three weeks after he filed his tax, the government sent him a thank you note. Every year after that when he filed he would wait for a note, but none ever came again.

It was an isolated experience...memorable...

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Yeah, that had me knitting my brows but, darn it, Christine beat me to it.

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Sanity is not statistical

I admit it was something of a patchwork response, but I thought it contained some purls of wisdom.

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Sanity is not statistical

Once you start paying taxes you are already 'stitched up' and spend the rest of 'taxing' days looking for 'loop' holes.

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