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Weisman, Steven R.
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Income tax -- United States -- History.
Taxation -- United States -- History.
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The great tax wars :...
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The great tax wars : Lincoln to Wilson : the fierce battles over money and power that transformed the nation / Steven R. Weisman.
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Weisman, Steven R.
New York : Simon & Schuster, c2002.
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Income tax -- United States -- History.
Taxation -- United States -- History.
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0684850680 :
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419 p. ; 25 cm.
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1. "Circumstances most unpropitious and forbidding" : the Civil War begins -- 2. Chase has no money" : the Union's income tax is enacted -- 3. "Every man's duty to contribute" : the agony of the South -- 4. "There is no tax more equal" : the Union saved, and America transformed -- 5. "The communism of combined wealth" : politics and the panic of 1893 -- 6. "Fraught with danger-- to each and every citizen" : enacted by the people, rejected by the court -- 7. "A peculiar obligation to the state" : Theodore Roosevelt proposes an income tax -- 8. "The Congress shall have power" : the sixteenth amendment is launched -- 9. "It will lighten the burdens of the poor" : the sixteenth amendment is ratified -- 10. "Here at last was fruition" : the income tax is enacted -- 11. "What did we do, what did we do" : Woodrow Wilson raises revenue for an impending war -- 12. "The dawn of a day of righteousness" : the income tax, the Great War and the counterreaction.
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