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A Tax Question..........?

How did we manage as a nation 100 years ago?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Things were not as expensive, government wasn't as big, we didn't have as many things to regulate. Live was simpler and cheaper back then. But then again, we also didn't really have much for public parks back then, also the food and drug laws had not really been passed back then. Government was less involved in people's lives back then, and sometimes the people paid for that with their lives.

  • 1 decade ago

    On the supply side, tarriffs and excise taxes. The tarriffs charged for most of our history before 1907 would be considered grossly protectionist today.

    On the demand side, minimal national defense and a lot less government services. There weren't many national parks in 1907, for example. There was no interstate highway system. There was no federal management of aviation. There was no space exploration. There was very little research on curing diseases and other health issues. There was no federal regulation of dumping toxins into the air or water. There was no federal regulation of the banking industry, and no protection for failed banks and their depositors. The stock market was unregulated and considerably easier to manipulate. There were no price supports for farmers. The list goes on and on. Some people consider these services a government takeover; some people consider these services a positive step for public health and quality of life.

  • Judy
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Not sure just how this is a tax question. But I believe that there were taxes then too.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Easy, the government was under control and it did not run our day to day lives.

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