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== Taxes ==
For most of our Nation's history (from the late 1700s to the early 1900s), the federal government was supported by money raised from '''''tariffs''''' not from any income tax. (A "tariff" is a tax imposed on a good that is imported from another country, . A tariff is like a sales tax that applies only to goods a good made in a foreign countries country and sold here.)
The original Constitution did not provide a practical way for the federal government to impose an individual income tax on American citizens and corporations. The Constitution did authorize Congress to impose ("levy") taxes, but the taxes had to be apportioned based on the number of individuals, and not based on how much money they made.
