It All Started With Lincoln

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On August 5, 1861, President Lincoln imposes the first federal income tax by signing the Revenue Act. Strapped for cash with which to pursue the Civil War, Lincoln and Congress agreed to impose a 3 percent tax on annual incomes over $800.

As early as March 1861, Lincoln had begun to take stock of the federal government’s ability to wage war against the South. He sent letters to cabinet members Edward Bates, Gideon Welles and Salmon Chase requesting their opinions as to whether or not the president had the constitutional authority to “collect [such] duties.” According to documents housed and interpreted by the Library of Congress, Lincoln was particularly concerned about maintaining federal authority over collecting revenue from ports along the southeastern seaboard, which he worried, might fall under the control of the Confederacy.

The Revenue Act’s language was broadly written to define income as gain “derived from any kind of property, or from any professional trade, employment, or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere or from any source whatever.” According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the comparable minimum taxable income in 2003, after adjustments for inflation, would have been approximately $16,000.

Congress repealed Lincoln’s tax law in 1871, but in 1909 passed the 16th Amendment, which set in place the federal income-tax system used today. Congress ratified the 16th Amendment in 1913.

SOURCE: HISTORY.COM

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  1. Good morning, Miss Pat! Debby is now a Hurricane with max winds of 80 mph, barely making it a hurricane – Category 1. It will make landfall about where Hurricane Idalia did last Fall and follow almost the same path as Idalia. It will pass right over the Village some time between 2-3 pm today.

    We may not have internet then and right now it can be real slow. The Village does have power right now, but had a short short power outage last night. Sally has some limited emergency power to keep her lift running, and it will run the router and microwave, lights, but no AC, stove or refrigerator. Power may go out for the whole area if trees, limbs and power lines are damaged when the storm advances.

    I’m here with Sally for the duration. I’ve been through several Hurricanes, Tropical Storms and power outages over the 20 years. So far, my house in the city hasn’t been damaged, but trees fell on several houses at the Village last Fall. The longest power outage was 4 days at my house when Hurricane Irma passed through. However, we had a spring storm this year that, though it wasn’t a tornado, knocked down 500 power poles and many trees were damaged.

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    1. Morning GA!!!
      stay safe and check in if you can so we know you’re all okay!
      we lost power here for 2 1/2 days–without it we have no a/c etc but also no water…we have a well. so glad i filled empty juice bottles for the last year.
      prayers going up that you guys will be fine!!

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      1. Good morning again! – I managed to make hot coffee – by moving the pot to her dining where her outlets are working.
        It’s really blowing and the rain is pouring down. I did a walk around – the exit doors are blowing open. There are leaks here and there. The emergency drains are backing up due to rain filling them. One new resident said her windows were leaking.
        There are some refugees from the outlying neighborhoods with blankets looking sleepy. In one of the meeting rooms a very thin white-haired elderly lady is stretched out on two dining chairs.
        The day is young – the storm came in at the local destination for seafood restaurants – a fishing village called Steinhatchee. It will be over us between 1-3pm today. I can’t imagine it being worse than now, but by then it will probably be a tropical storm.

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    1. Morning, Pat! Partly cloudy here this morning and cool at 69. It’s not nearly as humid as it was yesterday….so far, anyway. Wheezer was waiting for her tuna; after she ate the tuna and hunkered down near the door, I was able to pet her a few times before she had enough and departed. Jake is now getting his turn on the patio.

      And that was really what the civil war was about – not losing the revenue from the southern states.

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  5. TheseTruths

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    August 5, 2024 00:44

    BREAKING:

    Joe Rogan sues MSNBC for $30 million.

    Suit claims claims the news organization deceptively edited a video to make it look like he was pro-Kamala Harris when he was actually criticizing her.

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  10. insurrection Barbie

    @DefiyantlyFree

    Before Brian Kemp became governor he was struggling financially and had serious debts. One year later, in 2019, his net worth went up 3 million dollars. Kemp was Governor when Raffensberger signed a consent decree with Stacy Abrams which abolished signature verification. Despite having triple the amount of mail in ballots, GA rejection rate was twice as low as previous years. He knew there were serious questions about the 2020 election but he certified anyway. This is after 500 members of the Georgia Republican party wrote a letter telling Kemp that they have serious doubts about the validity of the 2020 election. Despite that he refused a state forensic audit. Kemp also appointed McAfee, who donated to Willis campaign. And magically got the RICO case. Kemp publicly stated Trump should not get immunity in the Jack Smith fake classified documents case. Spare me the Kemp is amazing bs.

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  12. Just The News: “The Islamic extremist Taliban has received at least $239 million in U.S. aid aimed at counterterrorism after State Department vetting procedures fell apart, according to a government watchdog.

    The government watchdog, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), issued a July 2024 report identifying at least 29 grants where the Taliban may have erroneously received counterterrorism funds. SIGAR “investigators found that the State Department failed to comply with its own counterterrorism partner vetting requirements in Afghanistan,” Judicial Watch reported.

    The funds came from State Department divisions called “Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor” and “International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.”

    The SIGAR report identified more than two dozen instances where these divisions failed to keep proper vetting records. The SIGAR report includes a response to the findings from the State Department.

    A June 2024 letter from the State Department claimed “the majority of the Department’s Afghanistan-related awards fully complied” with vetting requirements” but acknowledged “the gaps in compliance highlighted in the report.” The letter expressed the State Department’s “commit[ment] to ensuring that all program offices comply with applicable . . . vetting requirement.”

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  13. Just The News: “Georgia activist Michaelah Montgomery was a smash hit at an Atlanta Trump rally on Saturday. Former President Donald Trump invited Montgomery on stage as he concluded his speech at the Georgia State University Convention Center, Fox News reported.

    Trump and Montgomery met at a restaurant this year, where Montgomery reportedly recognized him and commended his funding for historically black colleges and universities. “She looks at me, says, ‘It’s President Trump. You saved my college.’ And I said, ‘How the hell do you know that?’… This one is so smart, so sharp,” Trump told rallygoers.

    “She grabbed me. She gave me a kiss,” Trump said. “I said, ‘I think I’m never going back home to the first lady.'” 

    “You were supposed to keep that quiet,” Montgomery responded.

    Trump praised Montgomery and pledged to do “whatever I can to help you” before she took the podium.

    “We do need to do our best to get the message out there,” the conservative activist said. “The fight is nothing if all we do is talk about it amongst ourselves.” Montgomery told attendees she founded Conserve the Culture, a conservative activist organization to “mobilize the HBCU students so that they may get this [conservative] message.”

    “I’ma give it back to Big T,” Montgomery said when returning the podium to Trump.”

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  17. EXCERPT: “WASHINGTON, DC — Tens of thousands of tax dollars, earmarked for ending gun violence in the nation’s crime-infested capital, were instead squandered on socially programming children as young as six-years-old to identify as “transgender” — and even take steps towards “transitioning,” according to a months-long Townhall investigation. These indoctrination efforts include a so-called “trans kids” summer camp.

    Meet the Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League (SMYAL), doing business as “Supporting and Mentoring Young Advocates and Leaders,” a 501(c)(3) non-profit headquartered in the heart of Washington, D.C.

    For FY 2024, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser’s Office on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Affairs (acronymed “MOLGBTQA”) awarded SMYAL a $50,000 grant, the maximum amount allowed, to build out their LGBTQ after-school program on Capitol Hill for kids in kindergarten through eighth grade.

    Cloyingly called “Little SMYALs,” the K-8 program is divided into two age groups: “Unicorns” (ages six to nine) and “Rainbows” (ages 10 to 13).

    Little SMYALs is one of the only initiatives of its kind in the country crafted specifically to target children this young, SMYAL gloated in the grant proposal they submitted to the mayor’s constituent outreach arm….”

    https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2024/08/05/smyal-funding-n2642009

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  18. Jake is once again in the BR and Wheezer returned to see if she could weasel some more tuna! When she figured out it wouldn’t work, she tucked into the dry food, then left to check out the garden beds – I was watching to make sure she didn’t get to the nest of baby bunnies in the south bed but she moved on, thankfully. I didn’t want to have to go out and chase her away, wiping out what progress we’ve made.

    Skies are now clear, with bright sun and not much of a breeze. Already 76 – yesterday, it stayed in the 70’s until after lunch time due to the cloud coverage. Predicting 83% humidity into this evening and 87% tomorrow night, with chances of rain every day well into next week.

    Still almost no Orioles – I did see one Orchard Oriole yesterday. It will be interesting to see if they come back with the cooler weather.

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        1. no not those.
          but that breast color of the second one–add a smidge of green to it and that’s what the entire bird looked like. (not a different colored head though)
          quite probably a youngish–not fully developed into its coloring yet.

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  19. Just did my daily lope check – I’ve got six that range in size from fitting the palm of my hand to big enough I can’t get my hand around them. And a ton of new small ones beginning. Jason & his wife stopped to ask if I wanted them to mow today, tomorrow or not until next week. I’m wearing a black t-shirt with a wolf scene printed on it and she mentioned that she helps save wolves so I told her about Spirit, my wolf-dog cross.

    I’m toying with the idea of asking her to stop by and just spend some time chatting together, getting to know each other – but I’m not sure how open-minded she is so…..maybe one of these days.

    No sense in mowing w/no rain but I did get him to help me unload the trellis from the back of my truck. Now I can run to Osmond and buy a new patio door – it’s come to mind at least 5 or 6 times in the last few days and each time, I can’t go because of the trellis. It’s 8′ tall and hung over the tailgate so there was no way I could add a full-size door w/o breaking it. I just managed with a lot of maneuvering room to get it loaded by myself and wasn’t about to try to unload it by myself too!

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  20. Just The News: “U.S. stock markets tumbled Monday following a weak July jobs report, sparking fear of a recession. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down over 1,000 points, about 2.3%, when U.S. markets opened at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time. Nasdaq went down 6% and the S&P 500 dipped 4.2%.

    The selloffs were preceded by Japan’s benchmark stock index dropping by 12.4% earlier Monday.

    The U.S. Labor Department’s July jobs report showed the U.S. economy added just 114,000 jobs, which was far fewer than Wall Street analysts had forecasted. In addition, the unemployment rate increased to 4.3%, compared to 4.1% in June.” 

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    1. Brick mailboxes were once mandatory in our neighborhood, but so many were hit and rebuilt that they finally quit requiring them. My part of the neighborhood has nice looking metal ones with a bit of wrought iron.

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  25. Bidenomics – when even the reductions go up in price

    “The New York Yankees announced yesterday that they have signed C Meredith Marakovits to a one-year Major League contract for the 2024 season with a club option for the 2025 season.”

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  26. “1950s Huffy Radio Bike. Nobody I knew growing up was rich enough to have one of these…” [Mine were certainly nowhere near this fancy!!!]

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    1. Still got limited power, internet and cell phone.

      Sally Q had breakfast and coffee.

      The eye of Debby will be passing over us soon.

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  33. Update from Tallahassee, FL utilities!

    “Electric crews continue working to restore power to approximately 7,500 customers currently without power following Hurricane Debby. Additional mutual aid resources from Louisiana have arrived in Tallahassee and are actively working to replace broken utility poles. City crews with support from mutual aid resources have restored power to over 24,000 customers and will continue working.”

    Cajuns to the rescue!

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  34. Both the Congressional ‘investigation’ and the Benny Johnson video of his ‘investigation’ with Congressmen Eli Crane and Corey Mills seem to be trying to nail down the narrative of Matthew Crooks as the lone shooter of President Donald Trump – this WITHOUT ballistics and forensic evidence.

    As with the Las Vegas Massacre and other major deadly events – this is probably only narrative we will ever get. We will never get to see any other documented proof of what occurred. The powers that be will see to that. 

    Rumors are – they won’t quit trying to kill President Trump.

    The change of Democrat candidates and the market crash make good distractions and diversions of the public’s attention from the assassination attempt.

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  36. UPDATE – We are still in the grace of the sort of eye zone area of the storm. Things are quiet and there’s only a drizzle for now. Folks in the Village administration expect things to get lively again soon.

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  37. “This is exceedingly painful to me. I don’t WANT to be at odds with the police. But while I still hold out hope for many local police, increasingly I am horrified at what’s happening in the State police, or at the Federal level.

    As an example, look at what’s happening in the UK; even as people peacefully protest the dumping of unvetted migrant invaders into towns willy-nilly, the police haul out the riot gear for those protestors. To protect the invaders.”

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  39. i was just out, my little watermelon is still there –not doing much, mind you, but it’s still there. I picked a bowlful of tomatoes for hubby and checked on my zucchinis–there are 11 now! and we’re sticking getting peppers galore!

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  40. Project Veritas
    @Project_Veritas
    🚨 BREAKING: Progressive Democrats Say Muslims Used VOTER FRAUD to Secure Power in Michigan

    “These guys go door to door and take people’s ballots. They bully them… intimidate.” – August Gitschlag, Certified Michigan Elections Official

    “If everything’s good, we can drop [the ballots] to the City Hall. City Hall has that [ballot] box. We can drop it there.” – Hamtramck Councilman Mohammed Hassan

    “This is another thing that you can’t say out loud. The absentee ballots are being filled out in people’s dining rooms by the candidates.” – Karen Majewski, Former Hamtramck Mayor (2006-2021)

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  43. Just The News: “The Supreme Court on Monday refused to delay former President Donald Trump’s sentencing or lift a gag order in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush money case until after the election, Reuters reported.

    Trump is currently scheduled to face sentencing on Sept. 18. A jury in May found him guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a 2016 payment his then-attorney, Michael Cohen, made to Stormy Daniels.

    The court’s decision was not the result of direct legal action from Trump, but from Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who sued New York on the grounds that the gag order against Trump and the case infringed on voters’ rights to hear form him.

    New York Attorney General Letitia James had asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the matter, asserting that “Missouri’s suit is based entirely on an ongoing criminal case between the Manhattan DA and former President Trump and does not present an actual controversy between sovereign States.”

    “Moreover, former President Trump has already raised, and the New York state courts are already adjudicating, the same issues Missouri seeks to raise, and Missouri’s claims are patently meritless,” she also said.

    Trump, for his part, lost an appeal last week to lift the remaining portions of a gag order that Judge Juan Merchan imposed as part of the case.”

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  44. Just The News: “Google lost a major antitrust case on Monday to the Justice Department, after a federal judge ruled that it has maintained an unfair monopoly when it comes to searching for things online. US District Judge Amit Mehta Mehta ruled that Google must stop its anticompetitive behavior, where it monopolizes exclusive contracts that make it the default search engine on smartphones and computers.

    “After having carefully considered and weighed the witness testimony and evidence, the court reaches the following conclusion: Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Mehta wrote in the opinion, per CNN. “It has violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act.”

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  45. “This is far more valuable than any rally or MSM interview. Young American males will be the heroes of the 2024 election, and Trump is investing his efforts to help grow his already massive support in this demographic. First-time male voters have spent their formative years under tyrannical Covid rule, mass LGBTQ propaganda, and DEI anti-male policies. Most young American men have spent their entire lives being told they are the problem. Trump offers a path away from the Left and this insane ideology.

    This not only helps us in 2024, but it lays the foundation to sustain this movement after Trump is gone. It might not look like it, but stuff like this scares the Deep State more than anything, because it means they have less control over future elections. Their propaganda machine is failing, and once the older generations die out, the Deep State will be left only with generations of American men who are awake, and sick of the woke bullshit. The future is Red.”

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