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Actually it is a well proven fact that the 16th amendment didn’t pass.

But the news media all claimed that it did, so here we are.

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[SVTCobra03]

Looks like you are not as smart as we had hoped you would be.

Myth 1: The 16th Amendment Was Not Properly Ratified

The 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1913, and explicitly gives the federal government the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes from any source. Before this, the federal government lacked the constitutional power to collect income taxes.

To become a part of the Constitution, a proposed amendment must be passed by 2/3 of Congress and ratified by the legislatures of ¾ of the states. When individual state legislatures were considering ratifying the amendment, like any other law, each state had to draft a bill and put it to a vote. Each bill contained the full text of the proposed amendment and varied from state to state in spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.

However, the substance of each version of the proposed amendment was identical. Every court that has considered the constitutionality argument of the income tax has flatly rejected it.

http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/tax-protest-myths.html

[Lurking Libertarian]

Actually it is a well proven fact that the 16th amendment didn’t pass.

Not a fact, and certainly not "proven." Some guy named Bill Benson wrote a book claiming that it wasn't ratified, but Benson went on to serve a long prison sentence for tax evasion.