Axe the tax? Should Ohio eliminate the individual income tax?

Axe the tax? Should Ohio eliminate the individual income tax?

LIMA — It is a phrase that almost everyone has heard: the only two constants in life are death and taxes. However, while paying a tax for goods is nothing new, as events like the Boston Tea Party show, taxation on individual income has a somewhat shorter history going back to the ratification of the 16th Amendment on Feb. 3, 1913 and a prior 10-year period in the 1860s when a tax on income helped pay for expenses related to the Civil War. While …