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The Great Tax Wars-Book Review – Outline
Thesis statement: “The Great Tax Wars” is a historical record of the antiquity of
America during six decades that were marred with conflict over wealth, power, and equity that
eventually bred the income tax system of the American people. It gives a story of the perilous
time of unprecedented changes, from the era of Abraham Lincoln and the onset of civil war and
continued through the reign of Theodore Roosevelt and culminated in World War 1 under the
leadership of Woodrow Wilson.
The author task: The renowned journalist and editorial writer Steven R. Weisman has tasked
himself to walk us through the terrible historical journey of the income tax, how it endured trial,
travails and persisted to the current global phenomenon of fiscal policy.
Abraham Lincoln: instituted the first American’s income tax to pay the Union Army aimed at
weakening the harsh resentment toward bankers, trade merchants, and the factory owners who
benefited from the civil war upheavals.
Congress: repealed the income tax after the war ended but was again reinstated in 1894 to avert
the economic recession that was plaguing the economy at the time.
Supreme Court: outlawed income tax as the contravention of the constitution, bringing the
court into worst wrangle it barely survived at the expense of reviving the dissension that was
there between regions and regions, farmers and workers against industrialists.
President Roosevelt: accredited for the modern presidency and was a controversial man who
always had an edge in bulldozing progressive reforms.
President William Howard Taft: his endeavors were reinforced by the ratification of the
Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and eventually, the tax was enacted in 1913 under his
leadership.
President Wilson: under his leadership populism paradigm, progressivism and financial
demands of the final war christened as ” War To End All Wars” produced a new revenue
structure for the federal government through War Revenue Act of 1917.
Running head: THE GREAT TAX WARS
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