Very interesting! The Federal government was trying to tax us right from the get go. I thought that all started later, although in this case they were taxing businesses, not individuals, and true to form to this day, the larger businesses got tax breaks. It seems this particular tax was levied in order to reimburse the states for money they'd spent on the revolutionary war, which was waged in large part (if the history we are taught in the government indoctrination camps is true) to oppose taxation! Washington assumed emergency powers in order to attack US citizens! This is a very interesting event in US history and shows that for all the pretty language, a central government is a central government and so plays by its own rules. Nothing stopping it but its own sense of morality. Thank you for providing the link.