Quote (Prox1m1ty @ Feb 2 2023 12:34pm)
A war on historical accuracy
LOL'd.
the only "war" in that era was the mexican border dispute, but i doubt it would have been worth a literal amendment to fund it even with the Germans backing them, fucking Germans. Why is it always ze germans?
then the real war to follow WW1 wasn't exactly American by design.
Quote (Santara @ Feb 2 2023 01:13pm)
Yes.
accurately i think its worth stating the expansion of income tax and increasing percent of the federal budget that goes to "defense" is by design. but the claim that income taxes themselves were designed to fund wars seems dubious at best.