In Henry Gatewood's rant he mentions taxes: "...we pay taxes to the government and what do we get? Not even protection from the army!" At the time of the story (1880), there was no income tax. The United States enacted the first income tax to support the Civil War effort in 1862, and this tax was eliminated in 1872. The income tax was not re-enacted until 1894, and was repealed the following year. But the federal government did collect tariffs on imports, and other excise taxes.
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