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Which country introduced income tax first?

Why is it that in the first 130 years of this country we had no income tax and the country ran well, but for?

  • the past 100 years we have had an income tax and it seems like we continue to add more and higher taxes with higher National Deficits?

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    We didn't have nearly as much defense or entitlement spending.

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They couldn't build a modern naval fleet with a whiskey tax and the temperance ladies were beginning to threaten that.

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This is a stupid question, the difference is infrastructure, how do roads get built, taxes. How to we pay for military, taxes. How do we pay to upgrade utilities, taxes. You can compare then to now because look how far we have come.

King Midas

Ran well? You mean a low GDP compared to the rest of the world, Civil War, etc?

... we had a ton of recession and depressions? and a huge civil war? ran well?

Dawn of the Zombie g

are you gonna compare the nation in 2012 to the 18th century US?

lovelydays

YEAH--stage coaches worked fine , what are we doing with roads?

Gunny

In the first 130 years of this country we had slaves.

Well, to start your wrong. The first income tax in the US was 1861 and we've only had deficits for the past 40 years. The difference is that congress used to fund anything they passed. 7 trillion of the deficit is unfunded wars. 2 trillion is the drug benefit for medicare. Take those away and the debt is much more manageable.

nathan f

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