During the enlightenment era and also during the classical period major philosophers believed that a dependable guide to human thinking was reason and logic. By using reason and logic and also principles of humanism humans were capable of guiding their thinking effectively.
There are state and federal excise taxes. State and federal inheritance taxes began after 1900, while the states (but not the federal government) began collecting sales taxes in the 1930s. The United States imposed income taxes briefly during the Civil War and the 1890s, and on a permanent basis from1913<span>.</span>
