When did we have the Income Tax implemented?
When did we have sales taxes implemented?
The history of the income tax in America is an interesting read. Those control freak bastards tried for decades, but the popularity of Marxism in the late 1800s lent a lot of impetus to the statists, not to mention the big government tendencies of Wilson.
Once again, Mojave is only telling part of the truth. Marx had a lot to do with the taxation of income, at least in popularizing it.
BTW, the first state sales tax in the United States went into effect in West Virginia on July 1, 1921.