Victor Davis Hanson

And he understood that before there was an income tax, this country, mutatis mutandis, the necessary changes being made, was able to have enough revenue to with tariffs. So he's got that on his brain that there has to be other sources of revenue other than these high income taxes.

And he understood that before there was an income tax, this country, mutatis mutandis, the necessary changes being made, was able to have enough revenue to with tariffs. So he's got that on his brain that there has to be other sources of revenue other than these high income taxes.

I don't know if there is, but he has said in moments of candor that he wishes the income tax was either vastly reduced or non-existent, but we'll see. But that's how the government... Once you pass the 1913 and 1916 Revenue Acts, you could see where we are a century and 110 years later. It was going to be inevitable. There has never been one tax or one government program that ever got smaller.

I don't know if there is, but he has said in moments of candor that he wishes the income tax was either vastly reduced or non-existent, but we'll see. But that's how the government... Once you pass the 1913 and 1916 Revenue Acts, you could see where we are a century and 110 years later. It was going to be inevitable. There has never been one tax or one government program that ever got smaller.

I don't know if there is, but he has said in moments of candor that he wishes the income tax was either vastly reduced or non-existent, but we'll see. But that's how the government... Once you pass the 1913 and 1916 Revenue Acts, you could see where we are a century and 110 years later. It was going to be inevitable. There has never been one tax or one government program that ever got smaller.

They always get bigger. And that was the nature of it. And it changed everybody's life. And so every once in a while, when I was in high school, I'd meet a conservative teacher. And they'd say, oh, Victor, you think you know everything? You know that income tax is illegal. And I said, no, it's not. I was like 16. And I think his name was Mr. Dudley. He was a really good guy.

They always get bigger. And that was the nature of it. And it changed everybody's life. And so every once in a while, when I was in high school, I'd meet a conservative teacher. And they'd say, oh, Victor, you think you know everything? You know that income tax is illegal. And I said, no, it's not. I was like 16. And I think his name was Mr. Dudley. He was a really good guy.

They always get bigger. And that was the nature of it. And it changed everybody's life. And so every once in a while, when I was in high school, I'd meet a conservative teacher. And they'd say, oh, Victor, you think you know everything? You know that income tax is illegal. And I said, no, it's not. I was like 16. And I think his name was Mr. Dudley. He was a really good guy.

And he'd come and... Here is the Constitution, Article 1, Section 2. All taxes must be apportioned. I said, yeah, but... They passed the Revenue Act was illegal. I said, they passed the constitutional amendment. The constitutional amendment was illegal. They argued all for the original intent, et cetera. So that's where we are. And remember what we're doing, everybody.

And he'd come and... Here is the Constitution, Article 1, Section 2. All taxes must be apportioned. I said, yeah, but... They passed the Revenue Act was illegal. I said, they passed the constitutional amendment. The constitutional amendment was illegal. They argued all for the original intent, et cetera. So that's where we are. And remember what we're doing, everybody.

And he'd come and... Here is the Constitution, Article 1, Section 2. All taxes must be apportioned. I said, yeah, but... They passed the Revenue Act was illegal. I said, they passed the constitutional amendment. The constitutional amendment was illegal. They argued all for the original intent, et cetera. So that's where we are. And remember what we're doing, everybody.

We're trying to find iconic moments, key moments in the 20th century. We're going to go from... the very earliest that I talked about the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War that was more than just Russia being humiliated. The humiliation had helped spark

We're trying to find iconic moments, key moments in the 20th century. We're going to go from... the very earliest that I talked about the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War that was more than just Russia being humiliated. The humiliation had helped spark

We're trying to find iconic moments, key moments in the 20th century. We're going to go from... the very earliest that I talked about the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War that was more than just Russia being humiliated. The humiliation had helped spark

just a little bit more than a decade, the Bolshevik Revolution, because the Tsars had been, the Tsardom had been totally discredited by that catastrophic loss of their Baltic and Pacific fleets to the Japanese of all people. And by the same token, the Japanese throughout the government, because they negotiated from a position of strength as the victors in that war, They negotiated hard.

just a little bit more than a decade, the Bolshevik Revolution, because the Tsars had been, the Tsardom had been totally discredited by that catastrophic loss of their Baltic and Pacific fleets to the Japanese of all people. And by the same token, the Japanese throughout the government, because they negotiated from a position of strength as the victors in that war, They negotiated hard.

just a little bit more than a decade, the Bolshevik Revolution, because the Tsars had been, the Tsardom had been totally discredited by that catastrophic loss of their Baltic and Pacific fleets to the Japanese of all people. And by the same token, the Japanese throughout the government, because they negotiated from a position of strength as the victors in that war, They negotiated hard.

They didn't get very much territory. They didn't get the Sakonai. And so they were discredited. And that was the beginning of the authoritarian, militaristic Japanese warlords that would result in World War II. And then we went to the Panama Canal. We have all this recent discussion about the Panama Canal. But yes, that was an American brilliant engineering feat.

They didn't get very much territory. They didn't get the Sakonai. And so they were discredited. And that was the beginning of the authoritarian, militaristic Japanese warlords that would result in World War II. And then we went to the Panama Canal. We have all this recent discussion about the Panama Canal. But yes, that was an American brilliant engineering feat.

They didn't get very much territory. They didn't get the Sakonai. And so they were discredited. And that was the beginning of the authoritarian, militaristic Japanese warlords that would result in World War II. And then we went to the Panama Canal. We have all this recent discussion about the Panama Canal. But yes, that was an American brilliant engineering feat.