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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
We were a 1st world country with some of the richest people in the world long before the income tax.  |
You do know we started paying Federal income tax in 1862 right? We also had a few things happen, gold rush, war... needed that money to move! During the times of the Federal income tax is when our nation took off and grew the most.
I wouldn't really call us a 1st world nation back then when the rich got rich off the backs of slave labor, people were dying all over from shit, food, water, waste was horrible, crime was off the chart, people being robed for everything they had over a flake of gold. You were either rich, or dirt poor and did back breaking labor for scraps. A real pleasantville.
As I said though, percentage of people wise we have far more rich/wealthy people today than any other time in history.