Answer: The answer is B) The federal government could not raise money by collecting taxes.
Explanation: This was only a few years after the Revolutionary War. The country had war debts they had to pay back and if they didn't have money from taxes to pay then they couldn't pay their debts. However, this is a bit ironic since one of the reasons the fought for independence from Great Britain was because they thought taxes violated their right as citizens and now the US government wanted to tax them.
