Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in February 1913, created the federal ...

It all started in 1913 with the ratification of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. In a moment of fiscal irresponsibility, the states approved a federal income tax without limits and without any ...

President Donald Trump pitched the idea of eliminating the federal income tax entirely to instead tariff and tax foreign ...

He made reference to a period prior to the 16th Amendment when the government was financed by tariffs rather than income ...

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

President Donald Trump has proposed abolishing federal income taxes, suggesting that tariffs and taxes on foreign nations ...

President Donald Trump authorized raising tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the People’s Republic of China. He has been roundly criticized by business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the ...

Donald Trump has once again stirred the debate on tax policy, recently advocating for eliminating income tax and returning to a tariff-based revenue system. "We're going back to the old days.

The Sixteenth Amendment, permitting the income tax, freed the government from dependence on the tax on liquor. The direct election of Senators, through the Seventeenth Amendment, made the Senate ...