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
The courts stonewalling is not proof of anything.
Benson’s detailed investigation showed that about half of the states that supposedly had ratified it had actually heavily revised it, some omitting large chunks of the proposed text.
There is no honest question but that the “ratification” was a hallucination in reality.
The courts are not imbued with the power to address the propriety of a state’s ratification; it is the purvey of the congress.
Congress never addressed it.
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