"So whereas Tea Partiers sometimes associate their objections to federal taxes with a desire to 'get back to the Constitution,' federal taxation is one of the Constitution's central purposes. And we can thank the wunderkind Alexander Hamilton for proposing the legislation by which the first U.S. Congress imposed the first federal tax ever on an American product."
William Hogeland in Salon wishes Alexander Hamilton a happy tax day.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Necessary and Proper
Labels:
1790s,
economic history,
finance,
Hamilton,
political history
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