I Should Have Known That

File this, from Constitution Daily, under “things that should have been obvious but I didn’t actually know”:

The 16^th Amendment. As the Drys fought to ban booze, a key step was the imposition of a national income tax, to replace taxes on liquor sales. The 16^th Amendment was ratified in 1913, providing a clear path to Prohibition. Somehow, after Prohibition was repealed, the government forgot to repeal the income tax!

So there ya go. Maybe I actually did know this, but forgot it. We’ll go with that.

 

 

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