The income tax amendment to the Constitution, its sixteenth, radically diminished property rights in America. Income earned from labor was no longer a working person’s property as Rick Lynch explains. By 1913, private property had been under attack for a long time, as Tom Bethell explains in his excellent book The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages. Our society’s intellectual and political leaders undermined respect for property, downgraded its importance and spread new doctrines that produced support for the income tax, enough support to pass an amendment to the Constitution that directly contradicted much of the spirit and … Continue reading Arguments For Federal Income Tax in 1910