April 15, the date by which American citizens scramble to file their federal income tax returns and pay their income taxes, serves as a discomforting reminder of America’s past: the fact that Americans didn’t do this type of thing for some 125 years after the enactment of the Constitution.

That’s not because income taxes are some sort of new invention that 20th-century Americans came up with. It doesn’t take a political rocket scientist to figure out that one good way … Continue reading April 15: A Discomforting Reminder of the Past