Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act
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The Revenue Act or Wilson-Gorman Tariff of 1894 slightly reduced the United States tariff rates from the numbers set in the 1890 McKinley tariff and imposed a 2% tax on income over $4,000. It is named
Gorman's Triumph – A Humiliating Spectacle, cartoon by W. A. Rogers depicting President Cleveland's humiliation by the Sugar Trust.
Grover Cleveland by Charles Milton Bell color change
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company, 157 U.S. 429, affirmed on rehearing, 158 U.S. 601, was a landmark case of the Supreme Court of the United States. In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court struck
Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act
…that it was un-Democratic, inquisitorial, and wrong in principle." The income tax provision was struck down in 1895 by the U.S. Supreme Court case Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429 (1895). In 1913, the 16th Amendment permitted a federal income tax. The tariff provisions of Wilson-Gorman were superseded by the Dingley…
The Fuller Court.