[ogogmad]

If not for taxes, how would you fund prisons, police, the army, etc? Not to mention other things.

[ceejayoz]

> President Roosevelt rejected funding the war with taxes, and went instead with war bonds.

War bonds covered about half the costs.

Roosevelt was not shy about taxation, before or during the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1935

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1937

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_Act_of_1942

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual_Income_Tax_Act_of_1...

"A 5% Victory tax on all individual incomes over $624 was created, with postwar credit."