Quickly followed by the “Revenue Act” and the worst one of all - the Federal Reserve Act.
The FED is a key pillar of progressivism. It changed the monetary system of the USA in a huge way, and without the FED today, the US Gov’t could not operate the huge, nanny-state it does.
Eliminate the FED, and you eliminate 1000 things conservatives oppose, from Planned Parenthood to PBS.
Worse is the 10th Amendment! Actually the open conclusions that have been determined by the Supreme Courts. More harm has been cause here than any other amendment! You’d expect that it allows anything that the Federal Government wants when you look at the Supreme Court decisions on this.
Of course the effect is that the Federal Government can do anything it wants to. Hell with States rights!
The 16th Amendment is the wet dream of every Free Trader Commie Globalist......when the US went from a nation that collected revenue by tariffs on foreign goods to a nation that taxes its citizens income with a progressive income tax.
The two biggest advocates of the Income Tax are Free Traders and Communists
I think the 17th was the worst. It defeated the whole purpose of having a bicameral legislature, and made our Congress the source of the “Bread and Circuses” demands of the citizenry.
The one that gave chicks the vote is the worst one.
Just kidding ladies, ;).
Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Agree though, 1913 was a really bad year with the ratification of both the 16th and 17th.