Heather Cox Richardson
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Civil War Income Taxes, Narrated by Danny Werfel
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0:55Now PlayingDanny Werfel served as 50th Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and is currently an Executive in Residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Government and Policy. Werfel details how the Civil War spurred congressional Republicans to invent the income tax.
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