To: Jacquerie
As horrible as the 17th Amendment is, I think the 16th is worse. it is a tough call as to which sucks more.
43 posted on
04/10/2013 10:08:58 AM PDT by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: central_va
Yeah, both are stinkaroo. The progs hit us hard a hundred years ago. They unfortunately illustrate the people's confidence in the Framers wasn't that strong, or that they knew better, or just believed Leftist BS fed them. Also, IIRC, there was a lot of hostility built up against the super wealthy “robber barons” and the income tax was sold as a means to screw them.
44 posted on
04/10/2013 1:14:17 PM PDT by
Jacquerie
(How few were left who had seen the republic! - Tacitus, The Annals)
To: central_va
Yeah, both are stinkaroo. The progs hit us hard a hundred years ago. They unfortunately illustrate the people's confidence in the Framers wasn't that strong, or that they knew better, or just believed Leftist BS fed them. Also, IIRC, there was a lot of hostility built up against the super wealthy “robber barons” and the income tax was sold as a means to screw them.
45 posted on
04/10/2013 1:14:49 PM PDT by
Jacquerie
(How few were left who had seen the republic! - Tacitus, The Annals)
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