How the Myth of the 'Robber Barons' Began—and Why It Persists

The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) ^ | Friday, September 21, 2018 | Burton W. Folsom

[Svartalfiar]

The years when this happened, from 1865 to the early 1900s, saw the U.S. encourage entrepreneurs indirectly by limiting government. Slavery was abolished and so was the income tax.

Wait, what?!?!?! The Income Tax was abolished around 1900?!?!?!!

[TBP]

There was an income tax enacted in the 1860s to fund the war. It ended in 1900. A few years later, the progressives reinstituted the income tax via the 16th Amendment.

[Rastus]

You can’t even get the left to say, “Those regulations we’ve put on factories and cars has really helped, but we need to do more.” Decades and decades of environmental regulation and I have never once heard anything but doom and gloom, we’re all gonna die, Republicans hate the earth.