Matt wrote:

That's right. I'm not sure of the tax acts for delegation, but the 14th
Amendment states:

16th amendment.

I always wondered how an amendment like that could get ratified.

Wilson had just taken the presidency, and he sold Congress on the idea of a
graduated income tax as alternate income for reduced tariffs. As far as the
public was concerned, these taxes would target only people like the Vanderbilts.
Later measures introduced by Wilson were anti-trust laws, child-labor laws, and
the establishment of an 8-hour workday for people such as railroad workers.
These efforts to rein in big business were quite popular.

George Patterson
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