I was unaware that taxes were such a recent invention. Clearly I've been misinformed about history. What other insights can you provide?

There were taxes before 1913

Not really though. Microscopic compared to today.

Then undoubtedly they correlated with better life standards by a large margin.

Are you being sarcastic? Because that statement is not an argument at all.

The way it used to be...in the United States, as regards solely taxes on income in peacetime?