Midrange wood windows did best, returning 73.3% with a national average job cost of $10,708 (for 10, 3-by-5-foot, double-hung insulated wood replacement windows, exterior clad in vinyl or aluminum with exterior trim to match existing trim).
Passed by Congress on July 2, 1909, and ratified February 3, 1913, the 16th amendment established Congress's right to impose a Federal income tax.6th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (1913). Citation: The 16th Amendment, March 15, 1913; Ratified Amendments, 1795-1992; General Records of the United States Government; Record Group 11; National Archives.
Congress approved the amendment in 1972, but unlike the previous failed amendments, this one had a time limit for its ratification. The original deadline for ratification was in 1979, and even after Congress pushed back the cutoff date to June 1982, only 35 of the required 38 states ratified the amendment.