11-05-2015, 11:38 AM
(11-05-2015, 11:25 AM)6andcounting Wrote: The IRS didn't exist until 1862 (under a different name) and the income tax didn't exist until the Civil War. And it wasn't until 1895 that a peacetime income tax was passed where the revenue could conceivably be used to build roads and not just bullets and cannons.
I'm pretty sure roads - among every other public service/utility - existed prior to 1895.
Indeed. Of course, there was no interstate system for the federal government to fund until even later and publicly maintained roads on the state and local level have had other taxation methods to use for them.
