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I see, so the world started with George Bush?
j-mac
No but the 47% malarkey did and I just proved it to you.
And Turtle has been schooled on this many many times and should be able to recite it from memory by this time he has seen it so much.
The Progressive Income Tax was authorized by the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. And who do we have to thank for championing that bit of progressive taxation?
On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2% federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.
Upon the privilege of doing business as an artificial entity and of freedom from a general partnership liability enjoyed by those who own the stock.[19][20]
An income tax amendment to the Constitution was first proposed by Senator Norris Brown of Nebraska. He submitted two proposals, Senate Resolutions Nos. 25 and 39. The amendment proposal finally accepted was Senate Joint Resolution No. 40, introduced by Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, the Senate majority leader and Finance Committee Chairman.[21]
President Taft was a REPUBLICAN.
Senator Brown was a REPUBLICAN.
Senator Adrich was a REPUBLICAN.
Turtle rants, rails, whines and cries about the Democrats when the Progressive Income tax was sponsored and led by Republicans. He screams and yelps loudly about Democrats and the 47% who pay no federal income tax but 90% of the votes to create that situation came from Republicans and was in fact proposed by a Republican President just like the 16th Amendment was.
Yeah - I know - its a real bitch when the historical record bites you firmly in the backside like this. But reality is reality is reality.