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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (243072)	3/21/2008 5:48:26 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794001

I always thought it was Wilson, but looks like Roosevelt and the Progressive Party started the ball rolling toward the Federal Income Tax... Look at this link and see from the tiny amount when it started to where it is today... This is in LESS than 100 years.... tax.org 1901-1932: The Income Tax Arrives The first 30 years of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of the modern income tax. More energized than demoralized by the Supreme Court’s invalidation of the 1894 income tax, fiscal reformers mounted a powerful campaign to resuscitate the levy. By 1913, they had engineered ratification of a new constitutional amendment, clearly establishing the federal government’s authority to levy an income tax. In its first two years, the tax was modest, providing only a small part of the government’s total revenue. But World War I transformed it, moving income taxes to the center of federal finance. Democrats and progressive Republicans remained the strongest advocates of income taxation, but even mainstream Republicans came to accept the levy. By the early 1920s, it was firmly established as a centerpiece of the federal tax system. Other info... en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org