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Old July 2, 2009, 07:55 AM   #40
divemedic
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Come on! Rise up! Defend yourself! Be a man and show them who's boss when it comes to your money!
"accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

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Well, here's a little tidbit straight out of the Constitution...

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises..."
don't forget the rest:

and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

don't tell you that you believe that the rest of that sentence is being followed? As they are wont to do, the politicians have corrupted the meaning of 'general welfare' to mean anything and everything.

The fact that representatives are no longer in proportion destroys the apportionment rule that is found in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3. The income tax was not unconstitutional before the Sixteenth Amendment unless it was misapplied, as was done with Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust. The Sixteenth Amendment made the apportionment rule inapplicable to income taxes, including taxes on income derived from property, by providing that Congress has the power to tax incomes from any source without having to apportion the tax by population.
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