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Blame Abraham Lincoln for the nation’s first national Income Tax

by NCC Staff

Most people aren’t big fans of a national income tax, but it was on this day back in 1861 that the first one was levied by the…

Blame Abraham Lincoln for the nation’s first national Income Tax
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