Insatiable Government - Garet Garrett - Mises Institute

"Until about 1910, excepting only the period of the Civil War, the cost of the federal government was met almost entirely by customs duties and the tobacco and liquor taxes; and until about 1910 the cost of state and local government was met by the property tax, supplemented somewhat by corporation taxes, license fees and death duties."

Insatiable Government - Garet Garrett - Mises Institute

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