politics

Just a reminder that the first US Federal income tax was a temporary measure instituted during the Civil War in 1861 at a rate of 3% on incomes over $800. It was repealed a decade later. They tried to bring it back in 1894 but it was ruled unconstitutional the very next year. 

Undeterred the Government ratified the 16th amendment in 1913 to allow for an income tax. The income tax that followed was also supposed to be temporary for war time funding like the civil war one, and was taxed at rates less than ten percent.

Never trust that a "temporary measure" from the Government will actually be temporary. So as hard as it is for people today to imagine a country without federal income taxes, it is not unprecedented.

I want privacy and the freedom to do what I want, when I want, and where I want as long as I am harming no one. Why is that so much to ask? $ANON

Currently, there are countries where their citizens are exempt from paying taxes.