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To: Kartographer

17. Every amendment to the Constitution, at least since #16, and arguably since #14. The invention of the income tax is responsible for almost every idiotic government project ever, and is directly responsible for drawing megalomaniacs to politics over any other career.


18 posted on 05/21/2014 10:28:39 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: Objective Scrutator
17. Every amendment to the Constitution, at least since #16, and arguably since #14. The invention of the income tax is responsible for almost every idiotic government project ever, and is directly responsible for drawing megalomaniacs to politics over any other career.

every Amendment since the Civil War has included some form of the phrase "Congress shall have the power". Prior to that, the standard was "Congress shall not".

53 posted on 05/22/2014 1:58:58 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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