But how can the 16th Amendment be considered valid if we take the view that the interests of the international banking cabal never outweigh those of the American people?
What I’ve said to you here speaks to the spirit of the law. But as for the letter of the law, the 16th Amendment—and a whole lot more than that—should be considered null and void because it happened within the fraudulent system established by the Act of 1871.
I was ratified! The fact it was ratified in no way indicates my approval that this is a proper way to fund FedGov. We’ve done dumb amendments in our history suffered for it and are still suffering examples, 17th, 21st (It was repealed, still it was dumb!), 23rd, etc.
According to the United States Government Publishing Office, the following states ratified the amendment:
Alabama: August 10, 1909
Kentucky: February 8, 1910
South Carolina: February 19, 1910
Illinois: March 1, 1910
Mississippi: March 7, 1910
Oklahoma: March 10, 1910
Maryland: April 8, 1910
Georgia: August 3, 1910
Texas: August 16, 1910
Ohio: January 19, 1911
Idaho: January 20, 1911
Oregon: January 23, 1911
Washington: January 26, 1911
Montana: January 27, 1911
Indiana: January 30, 1911
California: January 31, 1911
Nevada: January 31, 1911
South Dakota: February 1, 1911
Nebraska: February 9, 1911
North Carolina: February 11, 1911
Colorado: February 15, 1911
North Dakota: February 17, 1911
Michigan: February 23, 1911
Iowa: February 24, 1911
Kansas: March 2, 1911
Missouri: March 16, 1911
Maine: March 31, 1911
Tennessee: April 7, 1911
Arkansas: April 22, 1911, after having previously rejected the amendment
Wisconsin: May 16, 1911
New York: July 12, 1911
Arizona: April 3, 1912
Minnesota: June 11, 1912
Louisiana: June 28, 1912
West Virginia: January 31, 1913
Delaware: February 3, 1913
Ratification (by the requisite 36 states) was completed on February 3, 1913, with the ratification by Delaware. The amendment was subsequently ratified by the following states, bringing the total number of ratifying states to forty-two of the forty-eight then existing:
New Mexico: (February 3, 1913)
Wyoming: (February 3, 1913)
New Jersey: (February 4, 1913)
Vermont: (February 19, 1913)
Massachusetts: (March 4, 1913)
New Hampshire: (March 7, 1913), after rejecting the amendment on March 2, 1911
The legislatures of the following states rejected the amendment without ever subsequently ratifying it:
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Utah
Virginia
The legislatures of the following states never considered the proposed amendment:
Florida
Pennsylvania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
You’re welcome to take your reading of it to the local IRS office in lieu of paying your taxes. It’s been done before maybe you can make it work thus time.