It was voluntary and controlled locally, and later found to be unconstitutional.
I know what I'm talking about Larry. -----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:18 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama That's just a myth Tim. Income taxes existed at the start of the Civil War, it was the primary means that the Federal Government paid for the conflict. unlike the south which could not, and tried to fight the war using traditional methods that failed miserably. . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Early_Federal_i ncome_taxes On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:21 AM, LRS Scout <lrssc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You know this country was founded by a revolution started essentially over > taxes right? > > Did you also know that it wasn't until WW 1 that the federal gov't even had > the ability to levy income taxes against individuals? > > I still say that if we did a true constitutional review. Got rid of every > law and agency not in it, and limited our gov't to just what it contains, we > would be able to subsist (the gov't) on tariffs and other non-income taxes. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:58 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama > > > http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002677-503544.html > > "The president went over the laundry list of tax cuts instituted in > Washington over the past year. > > "In all, we passed 25 different tax cuts last year. And one thing we > haven't done is raise income taxes on families making less than > $250,000 a year -- another promise that we kept," he told supporters > at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. "So I've been a little > amused over the last couple of days where people have been having > these rallies about taxes. You would think they would be saying thank > you." > > The tide of craziness that seems to be sweeping America is incredible. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316243 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
