“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes”
228 years ago, Ben Franklin claimed that the only constants in the world were the fact that you are going to die, and the fact that you are going to pay taxes
This year, April 15th is a holiday in Washington, DC:
Emancipation Day is an official public holiday in the District of Columbia. It usually falls on April 16, but when April 16 is a Saturday – which it is in 2016 – then Emancipation Day moves to the previous day (Friday).↩
The U.S. has a really conflicted history with the income tax. For most of American history, there was no income tax at all. At one point it was ruled unconstitutional.
Today, income tax is the federal government's main source of revenue. That raises a question: How did something that was once so strange to us become so central?
The answer includes a few wars, a Supreme Court justice on his deathbed, and Donald Duck.
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