Another Attempt to Get Trump

Truth Matters

When the United States Constitution was written there was no provision for a federal income tax. The U. S. Government funded itself primarily through levying tariffs and excise taxes. One attempt at levying an income tax was made (to fund the military) in 1861 during the era of martial law and the chaos of the Civil War, but that was repealed shortly after the war ended and the nation reunited. There was another attempt in 1894 when the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act inserted a provision imposing such a tax. That income tax, however, was struck down by the Supreme Court the following year in the case of Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company.

In 1909 Congress finally passed the 16th Amendment to the Constitution authorizing the income tax. It was ratified by the states in 1913 and became law. Congress then passed the Revenue Act of 1913 and imposed an income tax of one half of one percent.

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