The only advice I would give anyone in the Federal Govt is to fuck off and die. I have had it up to my fucking eyeballs with the worthless Federal Govt. The only thing the Federal Govt is going to do is bankrupt this nation no matter who is President.
.." 16 Countries With No Income Taxes
There are plenty of countries with no income tax around the world. Keep in mind as you read our breakdown of each that you may not be able to get residence or citizenship in all of them, and some of them aren’t exactly the most liveable places to relocate to."....
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.." The financial requirements of the Civil War prompted the first American income tax in 1861. At first, Congress placed a flat 3-percent tax on all incomes over $800 and later modified this principle to include a graduated tax. Congress repealed the income tax in 1872, but the concept did not disappear."..
.." Throughout the 1860s, 1870s, and 1880s, farmers formed such political organizations as the Grange,
the Greenback Party, the National Farmers’ Alliance, and the People’s (Populist) Party. All of these groups advocated many reforms (
see the Interstate Commerce Act) considered radical for the times, including a graduated income tax."...
.."In 1894, as part of a high tariff bill, Congress enacted a 2-percent tax on income over $4,000. The tax was almost immediately struck down by a five-to-four decision of the Supreme Court, even though the Court had upheld the constitutionality of the Civil War tax a"...s recently as 1881."...
.." In 1909, progressives in Congress again attached a provision for an income tax to a tariff bill. Conservatives, hoping to kill the idea for good, proposed a constitutional amendment enacting such a tax; they believed an amendment would never receive ratification by three-fourths of the states. Much to their surprise, the amendment was ratified by one state legislature after another, and on February 25, 1913, with the certification by Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, the 16th amendment took effect. Yet in 1913, due to generous exemptions and deductions, less than 1 percent of the population paid income taxes at the rate of only 1 percent of net income.
This document settled the constitutional question of how to tax income and, by so doing, effected dramatic changes in the American way of life."....