Income Tax: From Woodrow Wilson to Charlie Kirk's Flat-Tax Case

Showing 8 Income Tax videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

The federal income tax traces to Woodrow Wilson's presidency in this material's account of his progressive reshaping of American government, alongside the creation of the Federal Reserve, both cited as evidence of Wilson's broader belief that the country had outgrown its founding constitutional framework and needed an expanded, guiding federal government instead. Charlie Kirk directly opposes this legacy, arguing that taxation itself amounts to theft since individuals hold complete ownership over their own labor and earnings, and proposing a flat ten percent tax modeled on the biblical tithe, with no deductions, exemptions, or loopholes, as the only system he considers morally consistent with private property rights. Separately, in a White House interview marking the anniversary of his second term, President Trump discusses roughly nineteen billion dollars in what he describes as fraudulently obtained government funds tied to Minnesota state programs, a claim distinct from the income tax debate but appearing in the same source material. Victor Davis Hanson, in an unrelated conversation also drawn from this pool, argues that historical American tariff policy, not income taxation, originally funded the federal government before the income tax existed.