Civil war Quote by G. Edward Griffin

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government…

— Alan Keyes

It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war,…

— Walter E. Williams

“(which did not exist before the creation of the income tax in 1913)”

— Thomas Piketty

The Founding Fathers realized that "the power to tax is the power to destroy," which is why they did not give the Federal government…

— Ron Paul

“In the United States, the Supreme Court blocked several attempts to levy a federal income tax in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries…

— Thomas Piketty

“the history of the income tax, which began as a tax only on the 0.1 percent and was never designed to target the poor.”

— Jane Mayer

“Before Congress instituted the federal income tax in 1913, following the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, America’s tax burden fell disproportionately…

— Jane Mayer

It used to be that we taxed property - zapped farmers basically. And there were very rich people who didn't pay that much tax.…

— T.R. Reid

“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum roll, please)…

— Neal Boortz

“We see then, in the first years of the Constitution, that some of its provisions—even those paraded most flamboyantly (like the First Amendment)—might be…

— Howard Zinn

Congress realized that it was inherently unfair to penalize Americans by requiring them to pay taxes on taxes they had already paid.

— Tom Suozzi

The nation ought to have a tax system which looks like someone designed it on purpose.

— William E. Simon