The great tax wars : Lincoln to Wilson, the fierce battles over money and power that transformed the nation / Steven R. Weisman.
Publisher description: A major work of history, The Great Tax Wars is the gripping, epic story of six decades of often violent conflict over wealth, power, and fairness that gave America the income tax. It's the story of a tumultuous period of radical change, from Abraham Lincoln and the Civil...
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- "Circumstances most unpropitious and forbidding" : the Civil War begins
- Chase has no money" : the Union's income tax is enacted
- "Every man's duty to contribute" : the agony of the South
- "There is no tax more equal" : the Union saved, and America transformed
- "The communism of combined wealth" : politics and the panic of 1893
- "Fraught with danger to each and every citizen" : enacted by the people, rejected by the court
- "A peculiar obligation to the state" : Theodore Roosevelt proposes an income tax
- "The Congress shall have power" : the sixteenth amendment is launched
- "It will lighten the burdens of the poor" : the sixteenth amendment is ratified
- "Here at last was fruition" : the income tax is enacted
- "What did we do, what did we do" : Woodrow Wilson raises revenue for an impending war
- "The dawn of a day of righteousness" : the income tax, the Great War and the counterreaction.