Union Bile Runneth Over

There's no question that there have been times and places in which unions were necessary. But the United States in 2011 is not one of them. The entire union movement in the US would be dead as a doornail right now other than for government worker unions which are basically an arm of the democrat party and which whose interests are opposed to those of the people they claim to serve. They are demanding recognition as an aristocratic class with wages and benefits beyond those of the people paying for same and the people in growing numbers of states are fed up with it.

You might consider that the problem here is not one of the unions taking too much, but of so many of the people having so little by way of wages that taxes on income no longer can support the government and demands on government services...

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You might consider that the problem here is not one of the unions taking too much, but of so many of the people having so little by way of wages that taxes on income no longer can support the government and demands on government services...

The United States made it until 1913 WITHOUT income taxes of any sort. You might want to ask yourself how that could have been.....

Some of the answers:

http://www.webofdebt.com

UNION THUGGARY ROUNDUP

...The concept of taxing income is a modern innovation and presupposes several things: a money economy, reasonably accurate accounts, a common understanding of receipts, expenses and profits, and an orderly society with reliable records. For most of the history of civilization, these preconditions did not exist, and taxes were based on other factors. Taxes on wealth, social position, and ownership of the means of production (typically land and slaves) were all common. Practices such as tithing, or an offering of firstfruits, existed from ancient times, and can be regarded as a precursor of the income tax, but they lacked precision and certainly were not based on a concept of net increase....

...In order to help pay for its war effort in the American Civil War, the United States government imposed its first personal income tax, on August 5, 1861, as part of the Revenue Act of 1861 (3% of all incomes over US $800).[9][verification needed] This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in 1862.[10][verification needed]

In 1894, Democrats in Congress passed the Wilson-Gorman tariff, which imposed the first peacetime income tax. The rate was 2% on income over $4000, which meant fewer than 10% of households would pay any. The purpose of the income tax was to make up for revenue that would be lost by tariff reductions.[11] Also, the Panic of 1893 is said to have something to do with the passage of Wilson-Gorman.

In 1895 the United States Supreme Court, in its ruling in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., held a tax based on receipts from the use of property to be unconstitutional. The Court held that taxes on rents from real estate, on interest income from personal property and other income from personal property (which includes dividend income) were treated as direct taxes on property, and therefore had to be apportioned. Since apportionment of income taxes is impractical, this had the effect of prohibiting a federal tax on income from property. However, the Court affirmed that the Constitution did not deny Congress the power to impose a tax on real and personal property, and it affirmed that such would be a direct tax.[12] Due to the political difficulties of taxing individual wages without taxing income from property, a federal income tax was impractical from the time of the Pollock decision until the time of ratification of the 16th Amendment in 1913....