Question

how did congress not paying taxes corrected the new constitution



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Answer 1

Answer:

Taxes imposed by Parliament were one of the triggers that set off the American colonies' fight for independence ("No taxation without representation!"). So, the new nation's Constitution stated in the first draft that citizens should not be subject to direct taxation.1

Despite this, about 60 years later, the first income tax in the U.S. was levied to pay for the Civil War. When the conflict ended, this tax was repealed, but it gave the federal government a taste for the revenue that income taxes could raise. A new income tax was introduced in 1894, ostensibly to make up for lost revenues from reductions in U.S. tariffs.2 The public was not impressed. This tax was taken before the Supreme Court and was declared unconstitutional, in the case Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co.3