the original income taxes in the 1800s got slaughtered by SCOTUS, but when the first one that didn't get overturned passed congress, it was only on the ultra rich. 10 years later, they lowered the threshold to cover half the population. since then, the tax rate has only gone up as more and more things become taxable.

really all this does is make it so company owners also have a marketing arm that pays a shitload to a lifestyle agency and the owners are the beneficiary, deducting practically everything.