Check out this sly gubmint propaganda (?)...

[trotsky]

The Library of Congress' "This Day in History" page (this link will only be valid for today, April 15th):

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/today.html

Homer S. Cummings, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee during the Woodrow Wilson administration, counted the income tax among the most notable accomplishments of the Democratic Party. Provision for an income tax, he observed in "Achievements of the Democratic Party," in American Leaders Speak, 1918-1920, relieved the law "of the reproach of being unjustly burdensome to the poor."

Arthus Botsford, interviewed in "Connecticut Clockmakers," an American Life Histories, 1936-1940 interview, had a different point of view. "If you got money in the bank, they want to know just how much, and how much interest is comin' on it, and everything else. It may be only two dollars, and if you got money in the bank, they want to know."

[hfojvt]

1. I love the income tax

to people who complain about it, and how much they have to pay, I say "try not making so much money". Of course, these days you can make hundreds of thousands from the sale of a house or millions from dividends and not pay any taxes on it. So the money thing does not always work. Plus having kids is a huge tax break now too.

[redqueen]

2. I do, as well.

I enjoy roads, libraries, parks, and another opportunity to help the less fortunate.

[zbdent]

3. Wasn't the income tax ratified

during the years that most of the states were heavily Republican? In response to the South losing the Civil War. The US went to Dem after the Market crash of 29. Back before all the neanderthal racists left to join the Repukes in the 60s.

[trotsky]

4. It was ratified at a time when the Republican party was arguably

the more liberal of the parties. Right after Teddy Roosevelt and his national parks and "trust busting", etc.

A key bit of info left out of this is how the wealthy themselves thought it was only responsible of them to contribute more, since they could afford it and we were getting into (or were already in) WWI. They were the ones who really led the fight to get the amendment ratified.