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To: ancient_geezer
Repealing the 16th Amendment wouldn't kill the income tax.

No, but it would be a good start. We will never get the income tax repealed *without* repealing the 16th Amendment.

The Federal tax system is so entrenched that it will have to be dismantled piecemeal, and the cumulative mistakes which led to its creation, reversed incrementally. We can *start* by repealing the 16th Amendment.

Then, while the sodden, putrescent old crows (and bats) on the Supreme Crotch debate the implications of *that*, we can go about revamping the tax system one Socialist edifice at a time.

In the end, it should be possible (if necessary) to pass another Amendment, explicitly *disallowing* income taxes, so as to guard against any future formation of a Socialist tyranny of the sort to which we all now perform ritual sacrifice on April 15 (On your knees, scum!).

11 posted on 02/24/2004 1:59:24 AM PST by fire_eye (Ban Assault Liberals!!)
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To: fire_eye

We will never get the income tax repealed *without* repealing the 16th Amendment.

And why not? The 16th does not mandate an income tax by any means. Income tax statutes have been repealed by Congress in the past under public pressure to do so, specifically the income tax of the Civil War.

The only thing keeping the income tax statutes in place to day is apathy of the voter, not anything more than that. With public interest growing in the NRST, so is support in Congress refer reply#9.

The Federal tax system is so entrenched that it will have to be dismantled piecemeal, and the cumulative mistakes which led to its creation, reversed incrementally. We can *start* by repealing the 16th Amendment.

Starting with the repeal of the 16th is incremental, ROTFLMAO.

When the income/payroll taxes are dimantled and shown to be obsolete, there will be plenty of pressure political will to repeal the 16th and prohibit income taxes. However, there will be no such move out of Congress without a proven replacement in place. NRST achieves that necessary step up to the plate.

16 posted on 02/24/2004 8:18:20 AM PST by ancient_geezer (Equality, the French disease: Everyone is equal beneath the guillotine.)
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