there is a scene in boardwalk empire i remember to this day where the income tax was a recently enacted scheme in the time of the show ( prohibition era ) and in the show the main char is talking to the then Treasury Secretary that referred to it as the biggest fucking scam ever pulled on the american people. i was a liberal at the time when i saw it so was thrown aback by such a claim but it struck me then...i think its one of the things that stuck with me enoigh and kept my mind open a crack til bitcoin flooded in years later.