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To: Ditto
LOL. You are so full of Southern-fried crap. So those Damn Yankees made them charge 25% tariff rates. ;~)). So did they amend their Constitution to allow those high rates or did they just ignore it?

insert grade school level insult to be at your level

They did what Lincoln did when he imposed an income tax to fight the war despite the fact that the constitution did not allow it.

300 posted on 03/25/2026 7:12:51 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird
They did what Lincoln did when he imposed an income tax to fight the war despite the fact that the constitution did not allow it.

The tax as Congress wrote it was not considered unconstitutional then. There were no legal challenges to it. And as a matter of fact, the Confederate Congress enacted an income tax as well. Was it “unconstitutional?”

304 posted on 03/25/2026 8:05:35 AM PDT by Ditto
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