You may rephrase it, the end result is the same.
More people being taxed, for the benefit of the government.
To the detriment of the people and their sense of responsibility to keep a check on government spending.
They went from 8 million to 35 million people being taxed, and it STILL wasn’t enough.
“You may rephrase it, the end result is the same. More people being taxed, for the benefit of the government.”
I didn’t rephrase anything, I was quoting someone.
The observation that the income tax had gone from being a “class tax” affecting millionaires to a “mass tax” affecting everybody was made by Henry Morgenthau the Secretary of the Treasury.
“They went from 8 million to 35 million people being taxed, and it STILL wasn’t enough.”
A little bit of historical perspective is necessary.
The 8 million taxpayers in 1941 were supporting a peacetime America in its 13th year of Depression.
The 35 million taxpayers in 1943 were supporting an America fighting a two-front global war while engaged in the greatest build up of war materiel in world history.
That increased taxation paid for WWII, during which a full one tenth of the US population was in uniform and many more worked in civilian support.