Posted on 08/08/2010 9:13:44 AM PDT by Para-Ord.45
..he History of the US Tax System can be summed up in one paragraph...
Prior to the enactment of the income tax, most citizens were able to pursue their private economic affairs without the direct knowledge of the government. Individuals earned their wages, businesses earned their profits, and wealth was accumulated and dispensed with little or no interaction with government entities.
Passage of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution would forever change life in America and not for the better.
The 16th - 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.
It's hard to imagine how the aforementioned amendment could have been written any broader, or why 36 states would agree to such an open ended federal power to strip citizens of their rightful earnings via taxation without representation and with literally no boundaries or limits to how far the federal government could ultimately go in their effort to buy the votes of some with the assets of others.
...Further, thanks to the passage of the 17th Amendment, also passed in 1913, the states no longer have representation in Washington DC. Once again, what seemed like a simple sentence and a good idea to some at the time has since been used by the federal government to eliminate state's sovereignty and rights.
The 17th - The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people thereof, for six years;
1913 gave birth to today's interpretation of the abused "supremacy clause" -- a wholly anti-American notion that the federal government has unlimited "supreme" power over the states and the people. Without states' representation in DC due to the 17th Amendment, the Fed is free to run wild...and running wild it is.
...On the heels of the banking Panic of 1907, Democrats were elected into full control of both congressional chambers. With full control over the legislative process they wasted no time shifting the focus of the federal government from the "enumerated powers" to federal power and social engineering.
...Beginning in 2001, the Bush administration tried for seven years to convince Congressional Democrats, including Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd, that there was impending trouble with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but to no avail.
It was the Federal Reserve and American taxpayers who would be held accountable for the misdeeds of Democratic incompetency and a refusal to address the growing mortgage problem until there were no good options left.
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The two amendments, plus the creation of the Federal Reserve. Then the following year WWI starts, and results in a major expansion of the federal government.
The useless generation.
One of the few references we ever see pinning the financial fiasco on Frank and Dodds - may they rot in hell - and noting that the evil Bush tried to stop them.
Talk about burying a story, the media did just fine on this one. I ain’t the biggest Bush fan but both were Americans and the POS we got now is......?
1913 was indeed a very bad year. Good article. J.B. hits it again.
I would only add that we also repeal the Pendleton Act of 1883...which protects civil servants from being fired without cause...WE NEED TO CLEAN HOUSE AND THIS ACT PREVENTS THAT FROM HAPPENING !!
Imagine how much prosperous the world would be if these 2 amendments were never passed.
Amen.
1913 = America’s annus horribilis
In order to reign in the federal government a nullification amendment is needed giving Congress or the states the power to nullify Supreme Court decisions by a 2/3 vote within one year of the Supreme Court opinion.
Woodrow Wilson’s legacy.
I’ve been saying this for years now, especially regarding the 16th which has taken so much money from the state and as a result given the feds more and more power of the dollar with which to coerce the states into complying with the federal power grab.
It’s always been true that those with the gold make the rules.
Can someone, who has studied the 17th amendment, explain the benefits of the state legislators choosing Senators instead of the citizens of that state?
There are always unintended consequences in everything..for example, what if the state legislatures had that power returned. Can you imagine how much worse the caliber of Senators would be from the state of Mass or Maine (they’re already bad...but would there be an improvement?) ??
Anyway, maybe I’m not picking up on the obvious benefit because I’ve never seen anything other than the citizens electing their senators.
2008 = America's anus horribilis.
One is campaign finance corruption. The biggest money races are for U.S. Senate and the Senators know who pays the piper. Having Senators chosen by state legislators would make contributions to Senate campaigns a thing of the past. The senators would then be beholden to those state legislators instead of wealthy donors.
One thing to consider, Mexico[Any foreign power] has a representative in DC, while our States have no one.
They are both globalists. To them America is here to serve the globalists agenda. The war that is bankrupting us is meant to prop up the global infrastructure which include Arab royalty. They did nothing to provide America with security. They let Mexicans run wild in America. Bush enforced Kosovo partition from Serbia. Bush funded military support of the Muslim Lebanese Army.
Laura, who was idolized by republicans as a classy lady, is now out promoting homosexual marriage and illegal immigrant amnesty. Oh about Bush fixing home lending, he could have done a lot more with executive orders in lieu of simple lip service.
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