“As direct taxes, they are required to follow the rule of apportionment found in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3.
The rule of apportionment requires the amount of a direct tax collected to be divided by the number of Representatives in the United States House of Representatives, the quotient is then multiplied by the number of representatives each State has to determine each State's share of the tax which it then needs to lay and collect through its own taxing authority.
Robert's is pulling this mythical tax option out of his arse. All Justices voting to uphold this Constitution KILLING decision should be impeached.
As I said, interesting viewing ahead. I’m stocking up on popcorn.
This isn’t a play for this upcoming election. It’s a play for a generation of elections employing rules with which most of us are not familiar. Now that a tax has to be called a tax the nature of elections, both state and federal, is changed.
We must adapt or die. And I think the new ground favors us, provided our Generals are well versed in Sun Tzu.
And we should point out to everyone that the protection against unapportioned direct taxes is VERY IMPORTANT.
The framers did not want the federal government to have the power to single out groups from within the population that they didn’t like and then lay direct taxes on that group.
Like laying a direct tax on everyone who is not an Episcopalian.
Or laying a direct tax on everyone who lives in a red state and not a blue state.
Or laying a direct tax on everyone who hasn’t happened to have entered into a certain insurance contract the government likes.