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Originally, 1795 to 1790 Internal Revenue agents for the government collected taxes due to pay the war debt of the United States as well as to pay for the trip's to create foreign trade.

1791 forward it was for the same purpose, by the same type of agent. but due to the people not being good stewards the federal government over step's its bounds and started using taxes to guarantee re-election and to keep one party in power by spending money to hire people or build things.

James Buchanan started this in the 1820's also rescinding Anti slave laws that were put into effect by President George Washington.

In 1943 the Internal Revenue Service was created, which actually is not part of the federal government. They are the collection service hired by the federal government to collect taxes

Today the "pork" is so out of control that the government is placing debt on the children of this country,U.S.A., for the first time in history. Children of the United States are now reverse millionaire's, which means they owe a million dollars to the debt of this government.

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