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DEMOCRATS- Stealing Your Money Since 1913

Let’s get one thing straight: the federal income tax as we know it today is a 20th-century invention, not some eternal fixture of American life. For the first 137 years of the Republic, the United States ran just fine, fought wars, built railroads, and became the world’s richest nation, mostly without taxing citizens’ wages directly. Then came 1913, the year everything changed.

**The 16th Amendment & the Revenue Act of 1913**
After a Civil War-era income tax (1861–1872) was allowed to expire and an 1894 attempt was struck down by the Supreme Court in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., progressives finally got their wish. On February 3, 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified:
> “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

Eight months later, the Revenue Act of 1913 was signed by President Woodrow Wilson, a DEMOCRAT. The tax started small, almost comically so by today’s standards:

- Only 1% on incomes above $3,000 ($4,000 for married couples) ≈ $90,000 and $108,000 in 2025 dollars.
- A “surtax” that climbed to 6% on incomes over $500,000 (about $15 million today).
- Fewer than 3% of Americans even had to file a return.

Politicians swore it would never touch the average worker. Treasury Secretary William McAdoo called it a tax on “the very rich.” Famous last words.
**World War I: The Foot in the Door**
By 1918, the top rate hit 77% to fund the war. Millions of ordinary Americans were dragged into the system for the first time via payroll withholding (yes, withholding started in 1917, not 1943). When the war ended, rates came down, but the precedent was set: Washington now had a permanent claim on your paycheck.
**The New Deal & World War II: From “Rich Only” to Everyone** FDR (DEMOCRATIC) needed cash for his alphabet-soup programs. In 1935, the top rate jumped to 79%. By 1944–1945, it reached a staggering 94% on income over $200,000. More importantly, the tax base exploded. In 1939, about 7% of Americans paid income tax. By 1945, over 70% did. Payroll withholding, made permanent in 1943 under the Current Tax Payment Act, turned employers into unpaid IRS agents and made taxpaying feel inevitable instead of voluntary.
**Post-War: The Permanent Leviathan**
Rates eventually fell (top marginal rate hovered in the 70% range through 1950s–1980), but the system never shrank back to 1913 levels. Every economic crisis, every war, every new federal program became an excuse to keep or raise rates. Reagan’s (Republican) 1986 reform slashed the top rate to 28%, the lowest since the 1920s, but Bill Clinton (DEMOCRAT) raised it to 39.6%, George W. Bush (Republican) cut it to 35%, Obama (DEMOCRAT) to 39.6% again, Trump (Republican) to 37%. The headline rate bounces around, but the core truth remains: the federal government now takes a cut of nearly every dollar most Americans earn.
**The Numbers Today (2025)
- Top federal marginal rate: 37% + 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax for high earners.
- Add state income taxes (0–13.3%) and payroll taxes (15.3% combined, half “paid by employer” in theory).
- The average American now surrenders roughly 30–45% of their income before they even see it.
- The IRS collects over $2.2 trillion in individual income taxes annually, more than the entire federal budget in 1990 (adjusted for inflation).
**The Bottom Line**
In 1913, Americans were promised a tiny tax on the ultra-wealthy that would never grow or touch the working man. One century later, the income tax is the federal government’s largest single revenue source, and withholding makes it almost impossible to escape. The politicians who sold the 16th Amendment as a limited measure on “robber barons created the most efficient wealth-extraction machine in human history.
Democrats-They’ve been stealing your money, legally, since 1913.

[Jean @jeantuite]

Era uma vez uma nação chamada Pérsia. Eles deram refúgio a 4.000 muçulmanos e, 100 anos depois, todos os Persas haviam sido exterminados.
Hoje, essa nação é o Irã.
Eu só achei que você deveria saber.

[PBTP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 @PBTPinc]

Help me understand how nothing has changed with the Iran situation yet since the Demothiefs stole another election gas prices have dropped by about $.40 per gallon near me? Price Fixing is a crime. People need to go to prison for it.

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@LeaderJohnThune You are a waste of space. You failed to do your job. You are nothing more than the mouth piece puppet of the Uniparty.

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@DebRN1953 @CruisersV8

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Mark NOVEMBER 3rd, 2026 as the the first official day of Communist Control of America. China played the long game of slowly infuriating our political system and recruited the Islamists to help. Looks like that finally paid off for them.

[Mark Kaye @markkaye]

🚨 BIDEN JUDGE ORDERS WHITE HOUSE TO REMOVE THIS VIDEO OF TRUMP PROMISING $5000.

So I'm reposting it here, just in case you wanted to share it in retaliation. Don't they get this just makes it more popular?

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: A Biden federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to SCRUB its "$5,000 to Americans" video from every government website and social account, just days before the midterms — so Americans are BLASTING IT EVERYWHERE

Judge Jennifer Rochon of SDNY sided with liberals, ruling the ad was likely "propaganda" funded by taxpayers

She also ordered two more ads pulled: "Every Democrat Voted Against No Tax on Tips" and "Cost of Socialism." 🤯

DIRECT INTERFERENCE BY A JUDGE

Share it far and WIDE 🇺🇸

[Papageorgio @PapageorgioWV]

Funny how welfare programs nobody pays into never run out of money, but Social Security,the one we actually fund with our own paychecks is always “about to go broke.” Almost like the people running the system care more about buying votes than keeping their word.

[War Correspondent @warDaniel47]

Isn’t it strange how forcing pork on Muslims is called disrespectful, but forcing LGBTQ ideology on Christians is called “tolerance”.

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Long read but worth it

[PBTP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 @PBTPinc]

DEMOCRATS- Stealing Your Money Since 1913

Let’s get one thing straight: the federal income tax as we know it today is a 20th-century invention, not some eternal fixture of American life. For the first 137 years of the Republic, the United States ran just fine, fought wars, built railroads, and became the world’s richest nation, mostly without taxing citizens’ wages directly. Then came 1913, the year everything changed.

**The 16th Amendment & the Revenue Act of 1913**
After a Civil War-era income tax (1861–1872) was allowed to expire and an 1894 attempt was struck down by the Supreme Court in Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co., progressives finally got their wish. On February 3, 1913, the 16th Amendment was ratified:
> “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

Eight months later, the Revenue Act of 1913 was signed by President Woodrow Wilson, a DEMOCRAT. The tax started small, almost comically so by today’s standards:

- Only 1% on incomes above $3,000 ($4,000 for married couples) ≈ $90,000 and $108,000 in 2025 dollars.
- A “surtax” that climbed to 6% on incomes over $500,000 (about $15 million today).
- Fewer than 3% of Americans even had to file a return.

Politicians swore it would never touch the average worker. Treasury Secretary William McAdoo called it a tax on “the very rich.” Famous last words.
**World War I: The Foot in the Door**
By 1918, the top rate hit 77% to fund the war. Millions of ordinary Americans were dragged into the system for the first time via payroll withholding (yes, withholding started in 1917, not 1943). When the war ended, rates came down, but the precedent was set: Washington now had a permanent claim on your paycheck.
**The New Deal & World War II: From “Rich Only” to Everyone** FDR (DEMOCRATIC) needed cash for his alphabet-soup programs. In 1935, the top rate jumped to 79%. By 1944–1945, it reached a staggering 94% on income over $200,000. More importantly, the tax base exploded. In 1939, about 7% of Americans paid income tax. By 1945, over 70% did. Payroll withholding, made permanent in 1943 under the Current Tax Payment Act, turned employers into unpaid IRS agents and made taxpaying feel inevitable instead of voluntary.
**Post-War: The Permanent Leviathan**
Rates eventually fell (top marginal rate hovered in the 70% range through 1950s–1980), but the system never shrank back to 1913 levels. Every economic crisis, every war, every new federal program became an excuse to keep or raise rates. Reagan’s (Republican) 1986 reform slashed the top rate to 28%, the lowest since the 1920s, but Bill Clinton (DEMOCRAT) raised it to 39.6%, George W. Bush (Republican) cut it to 35%, Obama (DEMOCRAT) to 39.6% again, Trump (Republican) to 37%. The headline rate bounces around, but the core truth remains: the federal government now takes a cut of nearly every dollar most Americans earn.
**The Numbers Today (2025)
- Top federal marginal rate: 37% + 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax for high earners.
- Add state income taxes (0–13.3%) and payroll taxes (15.3% combined, half “paid by employer” in theory).
- The average American now surrenders roughly 30–45% of their income before they even see it.
- The IRS collects over $2.2 trillion in individual income taxes annually, more than the entire federal budget in 1990 (adjusted for inflation).
**The Bottom Line**
In 1913, Americans were promised a tiny tax on the ultra-wealthy that would never grow or touch the working man. One century later, the income tax is the federal government’s largest single revenue source, and withholding makes it almost impossible to escape. The politicians who sold the 16th Amendment as a limited measure on “robber barons created the most efficient wealth-extraction machine in human history.
Democrats-They’ve been stealing your money, legally, since 1913.

[🇺🇸Mighty Magnet🇺🇸 @TheMightyMagnet]

Good morning and Happy Winning Wednesday! 🇺🇸💪🏻

[PBTP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 @PBTPinc]

So I can watch this from the Leftists

[PBTP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 @PBTPinc]

I want to see this

[PBTP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 @PBTPinc]

@Concern39837195 If for no other reason than to watch the left completely melt down.

[PBTP🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 @PBTPinc]

You are referring to this small blurb

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States
But if you research that it has been argued that it is ambiguous and doesn’t make clear if that just refers to the basic qualifications such as age and born a US citizen or if it encompasses someone who has served 2 terms. It should be argued in the Supreme Court or the Constitution amended to be more specific & clear. I think 2028 would be a great time to challenge it.

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I would vote for this.
Would you?
I don’t believe there are any laws on the books that would prohibit this.

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@Sunkized01

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@RobbieA45578

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@Itx_judith

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