Yeah, but we had other taxes, more specifically, really heavy import/export and excise taxes.Originally posted by killramos
The country ran just fine before the war when it was 0...
So, in order to lower the 50% Excise taxes for beaver pelts for the multi billion dollar corporations, they had to get the revenue elsewhere, hence... income tax.
PS, but did we have massive highways, infrastructure projects, educations, healthcare, unemployment, disability etc prior to ww1?
Honest question, I don't know the answer
I mean we built the rail system just 25 years prior with slave wages, so that's fine, I guess....