Think what you will of a national sales tax, but it's not "another" or even a new power. You pay a national sales tax every time you buy a gallon of gasoline or a tire (just to name two). The federal government has imposed excise taxes on goods and services for virtually our entire history.
You can certainly disapprove of the power, but you can't call it new.
Think what you will of a national sales tax, but it's not "another" or even a new power. You pay a national sales tax every time you buy a gallon of gasoline or a tire (just to name two). The federal government has imposed excise taxes on goods and services for virtually our entire history.
There is a vast difference between an excise tax being placed upon “judiciously selected” articles of consumption as our founding fathers intended from that of an national retail sales tax which violates the very intentions of our founding fathers for any general tax laid among the States, and which they specifically intended to be laid by the rule of apportionment.
JWK
“The proportion of taxes are fixed by the number of inhabitants, and not regulated by the extent of the territory, or fertility of soil” 3 Elliot`s, 243, “Each state will know, from its population, its proportion of any general tax” ___ Mr. George Nicholas, during the ratification debates of our Constitution.