[Tau Food]

What do you believe was intended by the framers of the Sixteenth Amendment when they wrote that portion of the 16th Amendment which provides that Congress can tax incomes "without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration"?

Why do you think they went to all that trouble?

[JOHN W K]

I don’t know if you really want my answer but here goes. During the debates to adopt the 16th Amendment we find Mr. HEFLIN agitating the working class people into supporting the amendment by saying “An income tax seeks to reach the unearned wealth of the country and to make it pay its share.” 44 Cong. Rec. 4420 (1909). Note the wording “unearned wealth“ as distinguished from earned wages.

And this was shortly after Mr. BARTLETT of Georgia had begun the class warfare attack by preaching to the working poor: As I see it, the fairest of all taxes is of this nature [a tax on gains, profits and unearned income], laid according to wealth, and its universal adoption would be a benign blessing to mankind. The door is shut against it, and the people must continue to groan beneath the burdens of tariff taxes and robbery under the guise of law.” 44 Cong. Rec. 4414 (1909). NOTE the words “unearned income” as apposed to “earned income“.

But what these cunning progressive con artists really had in mind was to create a tax allowing the expansion of the federal government’s manipulative iron fist which would eventually be used to squeeze the working people’s earned wages from their pockets in a more devastating manner than any tariff has ever done, and make them dependent upon government for their subsistence! But they cleverly waited for one generation to pass after the adoption of the 16th Amendment and a war to begin before completing their mission which was the Temporary Victory Tax of 1942

This tax un-constitutionally expanded the “income tax” upon corporations and businesses to include a 5 percent temporary tax upon working people’s “earned wages“. And although the 16th Amendment was sold as a way to tax “unearned income” as apposed to “earned income“, the temporary tax on working people’s earned wages was sold as a patriotic necessity in the war effort ___ not letting a crisis go to waste! But somehow Roosevelt’s class warfare tax, which robs the bread working people have earned by the sweat of their brow, is still to this very day being collected and provides the vehicle by which class warfare is carried out through “progressive taxation” imposed upon the working persons earned wages.

Bottom line is, I believe our founding fathers got the taxing system correct and the class warfare crap carried out through current income taxation will only end when the American People rise up and demand our elected public servants add the following 32 words to our Constitution:

The Sixteenth Amendment is hereby repealed and Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.

These words would return us to our founding father’s ORIGINAL TAX PLAN as they intended it to operate! And, the words would end the class warfare which is encouraged under income taxation.

JWK

"To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow upon favored individuals, to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes [Obama’s Solyndra/Chevy Volt/Fisker, Exelon, etc., swindling deals] is none the less a robbery because it is done under forms of law and called taxation." ____ Savings and Loan Assc. v. Topeka,(1875).