Operation Northwoods: The US Military Plan JFK Rejected

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America did not move from no federal income tax to paycheck withholding overnight. This Archive File traces how the system developed through the Civil War, the Sixteenth Amendment, the first modern income tax in 1913, and the wartime changes of World War II that expanded the tax base and made withholding a permanent part of American paychecks.