“personal income tax had already been introduced (first temporarily during the American Civil War, then permanently in 1913)”
That’s from the page you linked, directly refuting the other nutjob’s claim, “There is no income tax data prior to ww2, because it was illegal to tax individuals. Everything you earned was yours.”
While its a short article from their site its informative , talking about how WW2 set the stage for where we are now with the income tax and how our government spending boomed since then with this new revenue stream https://taxfoundation.org/blog/world-war-ii-us-taxation/#%3A~%3Atext=WWII+Changed+How+We+Raise+Revenue&text=The+personal+income+tax+had%2Cas+a+share+of+revenue
That’s from the page you linked, directly refuting the other nutjob’s claim, “There is no income tax data prior to ww2, because it was illegal to tax individuals. Everything you earned was yours.”
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