[traditional1]

Yes, but the tax rates were NOT un-equally applied, nor were there handouts of the earners' tax dollars to inner-city parasitic tribes, to keep them on the dole and voting for the handout-party.

Income taxes were used to pay for the costs of war, initially, and even into the 1900's.

[Jack Hydrazine]

The income tax imposed during the Civil War was later ruled as unconstitutional by the SCOTUS.