Thumbs up to Mark Levin on phony balanced budget amendment!

11-19-11 | JOHN W K

[JOHN W K]

And how does all that apply to what I wrote?

Answer: It doesn`t

JWK

[JOHN W K]

The 16th Amendment has absolutely nothing to do with “direct taxation”. Direct taxes are still required to be apportioned among the States. The most recent confirmation being the Obamacare ruling in which Justice Roberts admits direct taxes are still required to be apportioned!

JWK

If, by calling a tax indirect when it is essentially direct, the rule of protection could be frittered away, one of the great landmarks defining the boundary between the nation and the states of which it is composed, would have disappeared, and with it one of the bulwarks of private rights and private property. POLLOCK v. FARMERS' LOAN & TRUST CO., 157 U.S. 429 (1895)