Jesse Eisinger

I think they hated it for, yeah, very similar reasons. They hated paying anything, and they hated being exposed.

I think they hated it for, yeah, very similar reasons. They hated paying anything, and they hated being exposed.

So what happens is the country is being run in the aftermath of the Civil War by Republicans, you know, famously. This is like the party of Lincoln Republicans.

So what happens is the country is being run in the aftermath of the Civil War by Republicans, you know, famously. This is like the party of Lincoln Republicans.

So what happens is the country is being run in the aftermath of the Civil War by Republicans, you know, famously. This is like the party of Lincoln Republicans.

Well, they're the party of Lincoln's Republicans, but they're morphing into the party of George H.W. Bush's Republicans. So over that course of the second half of the 19th century, it becomes a party dominated by Northeastern wealthy interests, wealthy Republicans. The whole country is being run by those interests.

Well, they're the party of Lincoln's Republicans, but they're morphing into the party of George H.W. Bush's Republicans. So over that course of the second half of the 19th century, it becomes a party dominated by Northeastern wealthy interests, wealthy Republicans. The whole country is being run by those interests.

Well, they're the party of Lincoln's Republicans, but they're morphing into the party of George H.W. Bush's Republicans. So over that course of the second half of the 19th century, it becomes a party dominated by Northeastern wealthy interests, wealthy Republicans. The whole country is being run by those interests.

It's an incredible story. It's an incredible accomplishment. I think it's the single greatest victory of average Americans against the wealthy class in American history to get an income tax. And as I say, it's a complete accident.

It's an incredible story. It's an incredible accomplishment. I think it's the single greatest victory of average Americans against the wealthy class in American history to get an income tax. And as I say, it's a complete accident.

It's an incredible story. It's an incredible accomplishment. I think it's the single greatest victory of average Americans against the wealthy class in American history to get an income tax. And as I say, it's a complete accident.

So what happens over the next decade after the Supreme Court has rejected the income tax is there are huge debates about how they could possibly bring this back and resuscitate it. And my hero of this story is this guy Cordell Hull, who's a young Tennessee congressman. And he's the kind of single-minded, obsessive about the income tax. He's a Democrat from the Hill Country in Tennessee.

So what happens over the next decade after the Supreme Court has rejected the income tax is there are huge debates about how they could possibly bring this back and resuscitate it. And my hero of this story is this guy Cordell Hull, who's a young Tennessee congressman. And he's the kind of single-minded, obsessive about the income tax. He's a Democrat from the Hill Country in Tennessee.

So what happens over the next decade after the Supreme Court has rejected the income tax is there are huge debates about how they could possibly bring this back and resuscitate it. And my hero of this story is this guy Cordell Hull, who's a young Tennessee congressman. And he's the kind of single-minded, obsessive about the income tax. He's a Democrat from the Hill Country in Tennessee.

And he talks in his memoir about how members of the Democratic Party, his own colleagues, run away from him in Congress because they're so bored. of him, like, cornering them and talking about the income tax all the time. And so this is his obsession. And it was the Gilded Age where we're seeing fortunes that only have been matched by today's figures.

And he talks in his memoir about how members of the Democratic Party, his own colleagues, run away from him in Congress because they're so bored. of him, like, cornering them and talking about the income tax all the time. And so this is his obsession. And it was the Gilded Age where we're seeing fortunes that only have been matched by today's figures.

And he talks in his memoir about how members of the Democratic Party, his own colleagues, run away from him in Congress because they're so bored. of him, like, cornering them and talking about the income tax all the time. And so this is his obsession. And it was the Gilded Age where we're seeing fortunes that only have been matched by today's figures.

And he's constantly giving speeches on the floor about how the wealthy, you know, how the Rockefellers at the time don't pay their fair share and feel like they're exempt from taxes.

And he's constantly giving speeches on the floor about how the wealthy, you know, how the Rockefellers at the time don't pay their fair share and feel like they're exempt from taxes.

And he's constantly giving speeches on the floor about how the wealthy, you know, how the Rockefellers at the time don't pay their fair share and feel like they're exempt from taxes.