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Epic_Caramel 2 points ago +2 / -0

Believe it or not for most of our early history we didn't have a universal income tax the way we do now. There was a temporary one during the civil war and that's about it prior to the 1900s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States#Early_federal_income_taxes