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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 We’ve done dumb amendments in our history suffered for it and are still suffering examples, 17th, 21st (It was repealed, still it was dumb!), 23rd, etc.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.

Re-read the reply you were replying to:

it happened within the fraudulent system established by the Act of 1871.

Could have been all 57 states, no matter. Wikipedia is akin to DSC fact checkers.

There are problems with many "amendments" after the initial 12. Starting with the 13th (look up the original 13th amendment...). The 14th started our travels from Constitutional Republic to the UNITED STATES, INC. From Common Law to Maritime Law. The 14th codified the notion of an "American Citizen", prior to which we were solely citizens of our respective states.

The 16th contravenes the Constitution.

Furthermore, the IRS is merely a collection agency for the non-federal non-reserve Federal Reserve, to pay them for the "privilege" handed to them of printing the money supply with interest.