“They established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government,” Trump says.
Trump criticises income tax for US citizens
- Trump says between the late 18th century and early 20th century the US was “proportionately the wealthiest it has ever been”.
- “So wealthy in fact,” Trump continues, “we were collecting so much money so fast, we didn’t know what to do with it.”
- Trump says that in 1913, income tax was placed on US citizens “for reasons unknown to mankind”.
- “They established the income tax so that citizens, rather than foreign countries, would start paying the money necessary to run our government,” Trump says.