BillyPilgrim
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But how can you ensure reimbursement for the expenses of financing WWI (1914) and the Communist Revolution (1917) without the Income Tax?
Why "Whatever You Want" Keeps You Single
She says the movie looks dumb; you suddenly agree. She tests you with a little attitude; you apologize for nothing.
You think you're being easy to get along with. She reads something else entirely: a man with no edges. Nothing to hold on to. No friction, no tension, no reason to wonder what he really thinks.
The "22 Rules" taught me to push back — playfully, calmly, without needing her approval. Strange things happened after that.
What is this "taxation is theft" meme I read from american users on twitter?
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"You'll Never Feel READY to Walk Over"
Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
BaronOfHair
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This is similar to the late Vincent Bugliosi's book "The Prosecution Of George W Bush For Murder". A goverment levying irrational and unnecessary taxation that keeps many citizens broke may not qualify as "theft" in the classical sense, in the same way The White House launching an invasion of a foreign nation on transparently fallacious pretexts which results in millions of civilian deaths may not count as "murder", at least not in the way we typically think of that word
Both are living testament that once you get elected to the highest offices in the land, you needn't sweat committing a felony in public and before the cameras... Our judicial system will subject itself to remarkable feats of intellectual contortion, in their efforts to rationalize not sanctioning you, same way they would any ordinary citizen
Millard Fillmore
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I had read that Lincoln enacted an income tax to pay for the Civil War. Maybe it was temporary.
In any case states and local governments still levied taxes before the federal income tax, no?
taiyuu_otoko
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From investopedia:
The first personal income tax was imposed by Congress in 1861 in order to raise revenue for the Civil War. Congress repealed the tax in 1872. The idea was brought back in the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Congress' right to impose a federal income tax. The amendment was passed by Congress in 1909, ratified by the states, and took effect on Feb. 25, 1913. That first year, less than 1% of the population paid income taxes. The rate: 1% of net income.1