This nation, before the E. Mandell House/Woodrow Wilson income tax and then Commie-traitor Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal killed the free market in this country.
Laissez-faire unregulated capitalism was what made this nation the industrial and economic powerhouse it became in the latter 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Yeah, it also created vast wealth for the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, Fricks, Westinghouses, et. al.
But since they took the initial risks, they deserved their rewards.
Are you really this OBTUSE, or are you just having a bad day?
Do you know by any chance, what was the tax source of federal government before the introduction of income tax? Do you?