An income tax was paid, and cheerfully paid, by American citizens during and since the war, in vast sums, and it did not occur to citizen, lawyer or judge that the constitution of the United States made a distinction between incomes from rents and income from notes or bonds.
Sherman notes that Americans have historically paid income taxes without questioning the constitutional distinctions.
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