The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (Amendment XVI) allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on a census:
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment amoung the several States, and without regard to any census on enumeration.” (Sic)*
These are thirty dirty words, very dirty words.
Compare these thirty dirty words to the applicable sections of the Constitution itself:
Section 8 – Powers of Congress
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts 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;
Section 9 – Limits on Congress
No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
An Impost is a tax or duty.
The Welfare of the country is its health, happiness, or prosperity; well-being.
Welfare today also means organized efforts on the part of public or private organizations to benefit the poor, or simply public assistance. This is not the meaning of the word as used in the Constitution.
What’s your opinion?
Is the Income Tax Constitutional?
Or was the Federal Government intended to be run on tariffs and duties?
Keep in mind that tariffs and duties were applied to imports, goods and items being brought into the country from the outside.
Today we are all required to bow down and worship “the god of Free Trade!”
Tell me “Liberalism” isn’t a religion!!!
*Source: http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html