Real-time Mind Control Zombie Zot

http://www.MindControlUSA.com ^ | 12/23/06 | BibleBabe1

[A CA Guy]

Thanks.

[NicknamedBob]

" begin s/b being "

Hmm. An interesting construction. I had always heard it expressed as, "Let there be light ..."

[sionnsar]

... Hey - I thought you were going to bed!

Not me, as of time of that post, but not long now. Thinking towards a Snow Day tomorrow...

[sionnsar]

Maybe she is just begin bossy and speaking Gaelic afterall?

Math ga riribh, nach eil??

[tuliptree76]

What excuse did they use that time?

I'd have to look that up. Right now, my only guess would be that the taxes were to fund the Civil War.

[tuliptree76]

One thing that I would like to look into later (after I get the rest of my work out of the way) is how the 16th Amendment got passed - what the government said to get it through. Why would anyone willingly give the government the Constitutional authority to tax your income? They do need money to operate, but they were already given a way to do so by the founding fathers.

[sionnsar]

I would bet that it started out as a "tax the rich" scheme -- nobody else would pay. Then, of course, with the precedent in place, the tax threshold moved downwards, the flow of money to the feds increased, and the centralization of power in D.C. grew.

We never seem to learn that the worst measures are always enacted with the "unpopular" as the target -- initially.

[rottndog]

Hey tulip.

Thats a great subject--the history of the ratification of the 16th Amendment.

I believe when the 16th Amendment was passed, income tax was meant to apply to non-labor income--dividends and profits and such. Over time it has morphed into the monstrosity we have now.

Too many people don't know about it, though.

[rottndog]

Talk about the camel's nose under the tent...

We never seem to learn that the worst measures are always enacted with the "unpopular" as the target -- initially.

Smokers know all about that.

[tuliptree76]

I believe when the 16th Amendment was passed, income tax was meant to apply to non-labor income--dividends and profits and such.

That could be a possibility. I do remember reading somewhere about "excess profits taxes" that were created not too long after the 16th Amendment was passed. That's how the U.S. Tax Court initially got started (under a different name) - as an agency to help interpret and deal with problems that were raised by the creation of that tax.

[rottndog]

You should write a history of the IRS...

[tuliptree76]

Hmmm... I just realized that I can have 20 posts per page on a thread. This makes loading on dial-up a lot quicker!


And I've only been on FR for how long???

[tuliptree76]

LOL! Maybe that could be something to work on in the future. Right now, I'm focusing on changing "ABD" to "PhD". :-)

I wonder how many people would buy a book on the history of the IRS. Of course, the IRS would get part of the proceeds from the sales. ;-)

[rottndog]

I wonder how many people would buy a book on the history of the IRS.

That depends on the frame in which you write it--If it's stricly from a historical perspective, not many. If it's a realistic look at how a governmental agency when unconstrained descends into uncontrollable totalitarianism and thuggery, probably a lot.

[sionnsar]

LOL!

[sionnsar]

LOL! I never figured that out.

[Professional Engineer]

Math ga riribh, nach eil??

Wrong language. You might hit her with Russian or Hebrew however...

[sionnsar]

Doublecheck #2404 (2395). She said "Gaelic."

Were it Hebrew or Russian I'd be out of luck. I don't even have a phrasebook for either of those (only because my employer didn't want to send me to speak at a conference in Moscow last November).

[Dead Corpse]

Global Warming my left butt cheek...

Exactly whose idea was it to let it snow in TEXAS????

In other news, how's everyone doing?

[sionnsar]

We got more of that white Global Warming stuff last night and this morning. That on top of the ice from last evening's freezing, it's a good day for staying home and working on projects.