104 Years of the US Tax Code

[longknife]

Where a picture is far better than words. And, where does it go? Read more @ 104 Years of the Tax Code Summed Up By One BRUTAL Chart

 

[g5000]

$17.1 billion doesn't even pay for a single weekend trip to Mar-A-Lago.

 

[my2¢]

What I also find interesting are the tax rates back when we actually paid for our wars instead of running up the credit card without intention of ever paying it back.

This is sort of cool: Here’s the US tax rate on your income for every year since 1913

Based on my 2012 taxable income and status of married filing a joint return up until 1940 my effective tax was 4% or less. It grew to 24% in 1945.

 

[Fenton Lum]

Empire's expensive, don't know what to tell ya, trillions on endless wars'll do that. Apparently a hollowed out society at home is the price of "exceptionalism".

 

[g5000]

Where a picture is far better than words. And, where does it go? Read more @ 104 Years of the Tax Code Summed Up By One BRUTAL Chart

I can't help but notice your propaganda outlet didn't make a comparison between tax expenditures then and now.

Tax expenditures are the single biggest reason tax rates are as high as they are.

It's what your propagandists DON'T tell you that matters.

 

[Rustic]

Where a picture is far better than words. And, where does it go? Read more @ 104 Years of the Tax Code Summed Up By One BRUTAL Chart

A progressive income tax has destroyed this country thanks to career politicians... fact

 

[longknife]

Does anyone here know how the government was funded BEFORE the income tax was established?

(It might blow you away)

 

[my2¢]

Does anyone here know how the government was funded BEFORE the income tax was established?

(It might blow you away)

I thought it was tariffs.

 

[Marion Morrison]

Does anyone here know how the government was funded BEFORE the income tax was established?

(It might blow you away)

I thought it was tariffs.

Me too.

 

[longknife]

The biggest source of government funding in the early years came from lotteries! In fact, that's how they paid the Continental Congress and Army.