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There is no historical agreement that states ratifying the income tax itself actually happened.
There is no historical agreement that the earth is round, but guess what?
When the second argument that is listed in Wikipedia is that Ohio doesn't count when it had been a state for over a century before the amendment was proposed, I start to think these arguments are specious at best. It seems every judge the case had gone before agreed with that stance, which also sounds like historical agreement to me. Given the amendment was proposed due to the Supreme Court overturning income tax as unconstitutional, it also appears the courts were more than willing to rule against income tax prior to this supposedly dubious amendment.
Do you have any evidence that is stronger than the Obama birther conspiracies?
If you sole-source Wikipedia, I don't know what to tell you. But I'm not going off on a research excursion to prove myself right from things I've read over decades. It's of no import to me whether you believe me; if you're truly curious, look into it yourself. The origins of the income tax are more complex than one article can assert.
I tend not to comment, but this is peak nutter commentary so I feel compelled. You're following the standard format of...
Nutter: Let me tell you about my unproven conspiracy theory!
Anyone else: that's wild, can you prove it?
Nutter: Do your own research, I don't care if you believe me (i.e., I can't prove it because it's insane).
100% unrefined Facebook gran behaviour.
Look, I've been in journalism since 1998 and off Facebook since 2014. If you want to believe I'm full of shit, you're of course free to, but that's a terrible analogy.