Obama Care

[Beemnseven]

Originally Posted by BringBackJoeT

1) Okay, then, for starters, we can agree that you were flatly wrong with your original post.

To be fair about the statement regarding the income tax, I think the point was that it was a measure to raise revenue only for an extraordinary purpose -- in this case to pay for the Civil War. It was never meant to be the primary source of funding for the routine functions of the federal government. That didn't happen until 1913 with passage of the 16th amendment.