If you think you could possibly repeal the income tax amendment while the income tax is the tax law of the land, then you are more naiive than I would have thought. No congressman is dumb enough to try that.
Actually 92+ years of evidence with nearly continuous resolutions introduced to repeal said 16th amendment with no action yet is rather overwhealming that Congress has zero reason to repeal 16th amendment as long an income tax is on the books.
Remove all taxes on income from the federal statutes, obsolete the income tax by providing a viable and constitutional alternative based on consumption purchases only, and Congress will have every political encouragement in the world to grab at the freebee of killing the income tax amendment for political gain.
Guaranteed any political party with the gumption to push the repeal of the 16th amendment while the iron is hot and in total view of the electorate is guaranteed the control of Congress and the Whitehouse for decades to come. But it ain't in the cards as long as the income tax is the source of revenue for federal government. A century of political wrangling under those terms has made that absolutely clear.
Dear ancient_geezer,
Your view is that the repeal of the income tax code would lead to repeal of the 16th amendment. I understand your argument but strongly disagree with it.
Frankly, I don't see why Congress would repeal the 16th amendment once the income tax is repealed.
They'll say, just as YOU are saying, "It isn't necessary. We ABOLISHED the income tax. We ABOLISHED the IRS. Amending the Constitution is hard! We can't get the other guys to go along with it! And we'll never get 3/4 of the states to ratify it!"
And, they may be right about that.
But they'll have less incentive than they have now. They'll use the same excuse you use now: It isn't necessary.
However, whether I'm right or your right, NRSTers who say there is no mechanism by which it could be done are spreading falsehoods. If I were an NRSTer, I would repudiate those posters, because they make my side look bad to folks trying to find an honest debate.
You could at least try to clean up the falsehoods being propogated in the name of the NRST.
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