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To: SJackson
Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

What is Unconstitutional about the 16th Amendment anyway? We may not like it, but it is pretty clear wording. Are we not for a common sense reading of the Constitution?

49 posted on 08/26/2007 8:49:23 AM PDT by allmendream (A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal. (Hunter08))
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To: allmendream
What is Unconstitutional about the 16th Amendment anyway? We may not like it, but it is pretty clear wording. Are we not for a common sense reading of the Constitution?

I'm the wrong person to ask, I think it's fine. Of course I consider both the courts and the amendment process constitutional as well.

50 posted on 08/26/2007 8:50:40 AM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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To: allmendream
Amendment XVI

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

What is Unconstitutional about the 16th Amendment anyway? We may not like it, but it is pretty clear wording. Are we not for a common sense reading of the Constitution?

Congress does not have the power to constitutionally enforce the collecting of "taxes on incomes", under the provisions of the 4th and 5th Amendments.
Our "papers and effects' are subject to unreasonable seizures, and in effect we are made to testify against ourselves, in violation of due process.

57 posted on 08/26/2007 9:29:21 AM PDT by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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