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That is your opinion which you have NEVER been able to substantiate with any verifiable evidence.
As Shakespeare said in his play ACCOUNTANTS, LIARS and OTHER ROGUES - "a tax is a tax is a tax".
It is interesting to not that for all your carping and complaining about the nature of the income tax today, your insistence that we go back 150 years gives us a income tax which exempts lower income workers, provides for taxation of higher income workers at a graduated level and hits the rich earner far harder than anyone else.
And 150 years ago was the date YOU selected.
As to a temporary war....... as a nation grows, its standing in the world changes, its agenda changes, its priorities change and its needs and demands change. We no longer wear those stupid tri-cornered hats of the Revolutionary period and few Americans today could cope with life in 1860 America. Ch...ch... cha .... changes. Get used to it.
The point is simply that the income tax you so hate today was structured similarly in the time you chose - 150 years ago.
and as usual you miss the main point-it was a temporary measure to pay for what was an extremely costly war. it was never intended to be permanent.