Posted on 11/23/2009 4:45:41 PM PST by No Longer Free State
This Ammendment established the Income Tax.
Amendment 16 - Status of Income Tax Clarified. Ratified 2/3/1913.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
30 words, only 4 of which exceed 2 syllables.
Today - 96 years later - Subtitle A (Income Tax) of Title 26 of US Code (aka The Internal Revenue Code), has hundreds of sections and is thousands of pages long. Go here yourself and see if you can figure out how many pages it actually is
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/usc.cgi?ACTION=BROWSE&TITLE=26USCSA
By comparison, Sen Reid's health care take-over bill STARTS at 2070 pages.
If we pass this mess, how many pages do you think we'll have governing our health care in 10 years, let alone in 96?
Dave
I think reid is guilty of artcle2 section 4 of constitution.
The bibery part.
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