[mc5cents]

82 years after the USA began, slavery ended.

And in 1913 it was reinstated:

"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."

[Congressman Billybob]

Slavery is much too important a subject to be trivialized by your comparison to the Income Tax Amendment. I agree that the government's ability to take such a large chunk of the national wealth comes from that Amendment. I agree that the Framers were wise to forbid any direct tax except a per capita one.

But that does not remotely compare to slavery.

Congressman Billybob

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