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From: drp@ptsfb.UUCP (Dale Pederson)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: Selective Education (no personal income tax)
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 14:47:14 EST
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> > Some recent articles on this network is the first that I have ever heard
> > that the USA once existed without the personal income tax.  Talk about
> > selective education!
> 
> There were also two years that the government had a surplus of money;
> I remember 18xx but not what the xx was.  Does anyone know when these
> were, and whether this was before or after the income tax was established?

Personal Income Tax came into being around 1913, I don't have the exact
year immediately available.  Estate taxes first started around the same
time frame.  Many of the huge fortunes of the USA were begun in those
pre-income-tax years (e.g. Rockafeller (sp?)).