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Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by culturestate on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:02AM (#35383209)
> The country ran just fine with 0% income taxes until 1913.

Sure, apart from that whole Civil War fracas in the mid-1800s and the ensuing decades of reconstruction.

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Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by brigandish on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:31AM (#35383438)
The Civil War was a fight over the efficiency and ability of the country to run itself via taxes or not?
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Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by culturestate on Friday March 31, 2023 @02:41AM (#35383501)
My point is that regardless of the tax regime, America pretty clearly did not run "just fine" in that era.
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Re:Tax preparation industry alarmed over plan for IRS free t... by brigandish on Friday March 31, 2023 @03:10AM (#35383694)
It seems that you could also say it didn't run fine if there were an invasion, for much the same reasons, but that wouldn't, in most cases, make it a valid critique of the way things were being run, especially with regard to the actual subject here, which regards the tax regime.
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