app01 Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:54:01 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Restoring America with Grace Reilly - Episodes Tagged with “Income Tax” https://restoring-america-grace-reilly.fireside.fm/tags/income%20tax Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:30:00 -0400 Restoring America with Grace Reilly serves as a voice for truth and equips you to confidently discuss threats to the future of America. en-us episodic Valuable information, analysis, and conversations— all an essential part of restoring our great country. Grace Reilly Restoring America with Grace Reilly serves as a voice for truth and equips you to confidently discuss threats to the future of America. no Conservative, America, American History, Grace Reilly, Restoring America, Restoring America with Grace Reilly, Truth, Politics, News, Breaking News, War on Truth, Culture, Secular Culture, Faith, Christian, American Values, Founding Fathers, Conservative Podcast, Conservative Show Grace Reilly gr@restorationpac.com Episode 68: Your Taxes Today are WAY WORSE Than What The Founders Protested https://restoring-america-grace-reilly.fireside.fm/68 7534969c-4333-4831-a898-82c50efbf15b Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:30:00 -0400 Grace Reilly 68 Your Taxes Today are WAY WORSE Than What The Founders Protested full 1 Grace Reilly The founders went to war over taxes far lighter than what leaves your paycheck today. So how did a country built on "no taxation without representation" end up with a tax system this BIG? How did spending become so high and widespread? 18:13 no <p>The founders went to war over taxes far lighter than what leaves your paycheck today. So how did a country built on "no taxation without representation" end up with a tax system this BIG? How did spending become so high and widespread?</p> <p>In this episode, I dive into the establishment of the federal income tax from 1913, when the top rate was just 7% and the whole thing was sold as temporary, up to the 73% and 94% rates that came later under Woodrow Wilson and FDR. I get into what Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan understood about property and freedom, why a heavy progressive income tax is actually the second plank of the Communist Manifesto, and why Reagan called endless government growth "creeping socialism."</p> <p>250 years in, this is a conversation we can't afford to stop having. </p> Grace Reilly, Restoring America, Politics, Conservative Politics, The founders went to war over taxes far lighter than what leaves your paycheck today. So how did a country built on "no taxation without representation" end up with a tax system this BIG? How did spending become so high and widespread?

In this episode, I dive into the establishment of the federal income tax from 1913, when the top rate was just 7% and the whole thing was sold as temporary, up to the 73% and 94% rates that came later under Woodrow Wilson and FDR. I get into what Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan understood about property and freedom, why a heavy progressive income tax is actually the second plank of the Communist Manifesto, and why Reagan called endless government growth "creeping socialism."

250 years in, this is a conversation we can't afford to stop having.

]]> The founders went to war over taxes far lighter than what leaves your paycheck today. So how did a country built on "no taxation without representation" end up with a tax system this BIG? How did spending become so high and widespread?

In this episode, I dive into the establishment of the federal income tax from 1913, when the top rate was just 7% and the whole thing was sold as temporary, up to the 73% and 94% rates that came later under Woodrow Wilson and FDR. I get into what Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan understood about property and freedom, why a heavy progressive income tax is actually the second plank of the Communist Manifesto, and why Reagan called endless government growth "creeping socialism."

250 years in, this is a conversation we can't afford to stop having.

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