Some stuff » procedural error https://blog.yhuang.org here. Wed, 27 Aug 2025 08:50:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 the sixteenth amendment not properly ratified? https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=97 https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=97#comments Sat, 02 Feb 2008 06:12:32 +0000 admin http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=97 A lot of people seem to write about that, claiming procedural error. That’s not what I care about, actually.

I am interested to know why people in the late 19th century clamored for an income tax. It seems strange. It looks like the farm lobby in the West at that time wanted a graduated tax to redistribute income, so I can understand some states being for an income tax, but three-quarters of the states? It seems difficult even to raise tax rates today, so where were the “tax protestors” back then?

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