Data is cherry-picked? Oh, I'm sorry I took information that was relevant to our bigger gov't. If you remember our country has been fighting tooth and nail each incremental growth in Federal gov't power (The Feds fought the Democrats, the Old Republicans the Democrat-Republicans and so on), add to that including any late 1700s/early 1800s income tax (if there was one) would be odd since the ability of the gov't to actually collect could easily be called into question. But, the real reason is that most of the graphs I found on median income tax (not just top-bracket which is ACTUALLY skewed) started in mid-1970s.
"Obama didn't really do any of those things, the Federal Reserve did, and government has no say in Fed Policy."
Who had to bail-out the banks/auto-companies?
. 1913 the 16th amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the U.S. tax system. The amendment gave Congress legal authority to tax income and resulted in a revenue law that taxed incomes of both individuals and corporations. The nation had few taxes in its early history. From 1791 to 1802, the U.S was supported by internal taxes on distilled spirits, carriages, refined sugar, tobacco and snuff, property sold at auction, corporate bonds, and slaves.
