The income tax started out as a flat tax. Oddly, for nearly 150 we got along fine without taxing production. I like you, so I’ll be as polite as I can in responding. ANY income tax is stupid, an abomination, and was never intended for our people by our Founding Fathers. NO INCOME TAX IS ACCEPTABLE. EVER.
I am against all taxes.
So you want an income tax plus a new sales tax? Plus special favors for the inner cities to attract your job to go there? All of which will require new bureaucracies to administer.
No, the income tax of 1914 for calendar year 1913, before withholding started in 1942, was 1 to 6 percent on incomes of $3,000 annually and up. I forgot the threshold limit, maybe $10,000, then a huge amount.