That is only half true https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/jan/21/facebook-posts/modern-income-tax-structure-born-1913-americans-pa/

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The spirit of this post is not diminished by these details. I appreciate “the rest of the story” but it’s easy to see how the US govt by way of legal manipulation circumventing the Constitution is way out of line getting in the pockets of its citizens.

Politico lmfao

The way they said ''the US taxed citizens before to pay for the civil war" made me think, that is exactly the problem - taxation is a form of theft.

It illustrates that it has always been a tax "justified" by war. That is why the country must always be at war. 1984