1. "Circumstances most unpropitious and forbidding" : the Civil War begins
2. "Chase has no money" : the Union's income tax is enacted
3. "Every man's duty to contribute" : the agony of the South
4. "There is no tax more equal" : the Union saved, and America transformed
5. "The communism of combined wealth" : politics and the panic of 1893
6. "Fraught with danger to each and every citizen" : enacted by the people, rejected by the court
7. "A peculiar obligation to the state" : Theodore Roosevelt proposes an income tax
8. "The Congress shall have power" : the sixteenth amendment is launched
9. "It will lighten the burdens of the poor" : the sixteenth amendment is ratified
10. "Here at last was fruition" : the income tax is enacted
11. "What did we do, what did we do" : Woodrow Wilson raises revenue for an impending war
12. "The dawn of a day of righteousness" : the income tax, the Great War and the counterreaction.
