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The income tax was sold to normies as something only The Rich™ would pay, and that tariffs disproportionately hurt The Poor™. That lasted for a hot minute until the rest of us plebs had to pay income tax too.
Now we have articles on how Trump's tariffs will "punish The Poor™".
Second verse, same as the first.
I just have to emphasize the obvious, that federal spending was much much lower. The evil of income tax is that it was effective enough to enable our Byzantine apparatus. If we kept peacetime spending at the same per-xapita levels, income tax would merely be an ignored soft-evil.
Wasn't it something incredibly absurd like only 3% or even 0.3% would be affected? I could be misremembering, though. But, yeah, at the time they said it wasn't going to be an 'everyone tax.'
Which should be a general warning about any and every government program.
When income tax was established, it was going to be pretty much only on the top 3% or so. When Social Security was established, it was expressly forbidden to be used as a "national identification number", and was a guaranteed payout. No government program fails to scope creep or expand its budget.