The __________ Amendment empowered the national government to collect taxes on income.
A) Sixteenth
B) Nineteenth
C) Twenty-first
D) Twenty-sixth
E) Twenty-eighth
Question 2
The U.S. income tax was first introduced in order to
A) help finance the Civil War.
B) respond to the dramatic drop in federal revenues as a result of the Great Depression.
C) finance U.S. participation in World War I.
D) reduce the ability of a few industrialists to create economic disadvantage for the majority of citizens.
E) enable the U.S. government to grow in response to competition from foreign countries.
Flamingo (Chilean National Zoo)
Sources of income for U.S. population aged 65 and over.
Lone-parent household income and the degree of vulnerability