

Income taxes were unheard of in the revolution too. The feds weren’t in everyone’s business, by design. Just tariffs and duties and such for money. In the civil war they started income taxes, then cancelled them after the war. The restarted them in wwi, and kept them since.

The group that misjudged the situation to an epic fucking degree (hamas,) should shut the fuck up. Iran can and should target oil infrastructure in neighbors that host enemy bases, from their own point of view, it’s the only card they have to play, raising oil prices.