Quote Originally Posted by dawgday166 View Post
Didn't have income taxes back then. Tariffs, property, excise taxes back then and poll taxes on voters. No income tax. Gotta have taxes without a doubt but the national income tax didn't get passed as an amendment till 1913. It was briefly implemented during Civil War and in 1890's tho.
Tariffs use to be the only way the Federal Government got money.