Quote from: Surly1 on Jul 14, 2024, 05:15 PMInterestingly, the tax was repealed11 years later. It proved impossible to collect.
What was impossible to do in the 18th century with GW was possible with the creation of the Internal Revenue Service in the 19th, which had its beginning just prior to the War of Northern Aggression in 1862. The Federal Goobermint simply did not have a big enough bureaucracy in the era of Washington to do enforcement. Said office was necessary to raise the money to fund the Union Army of the Industrialists of the north. This enabled them to get backing from the European bankers and give the "Greenback" value. You will recall the 2nd Bank of the US had been "killed" by Jackson prior to the Civil War and there waas no central bank again until Da Fed in 1913. The power of taxation gave the northern banksters credit with the Rothschilds. This of course is why the southerners hated the "Revenooers", who were agents of the northern banks.
The Civil War was the victory of the banks and the rich over the poor, not the victory of freedom over slavery. We all became slaves at its conclusion.
RE