To: Gondring
The sixteenth didn't give Congress the power for income tax, either.
You are wrong. That might be your fringe opinion. But Christine is correct and you are wrong.
See the Encyclopedia Britannica:
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/547117/Sixteenth-Amendment
Sixteenth Amendment, amendment (1913) to the Constitution of the United States permitting a federal income tax.
Sixteenth Amendment: The Federal Income Tax
OUR DOCUMENTS: 100 MILESTONE DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Oxford University Press
http://books.google.com/books?id=qqDA6OGvhmUC&pg=PA138&lpg=PA138&dq=%2B%22sixteenth+amendment+to+the+US+Constitution%22+%2B%22income+tax%22&source=bl&ots=DmpszhgITn&sig=CX1vuNsyIjEVn6Esng2ro9pcgBE&hl=en&ei=fGwCTdb8DY3AsAPs0JnIDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CDgQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=%2B%22sixteenth%20amendment%20to%20the%20US%20Constitution%22%20%2B%22income%20tax%22&f=false
THE TAX FOUNDATION SAYS:
constitutional amendment to allow for a direct and unapportioned federal income tax.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/show/24279.html
45 posted on
12/10/2010 10:36:56 AM PST by
Moseley
(http://www.MeetChristineODonnell.com)
To: Moseley
Note to readers...notice how Moseley posts something that backs my point entirely, yet tries to claim it supports Miss O’Donnell’s wrong response.
Don’t overlook “direct” and “unapportioned”...if it were just “income tax,” as Miss O’Donnell claimed, then there would be no need for those adjectives!
46 posted on
12/10/2010 4:15:42 PM PST by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Moseley
Note to readers...notice how Moseley posts something that backs my point entirely, yet tries to claim it supports Miss O’Donnell’s wrong response.
Don’t overlook “direct” and “unapportioned”...if it were just “income tax,” as Miss O’Donnell claimed, then there would be no need for those adjectives!
47 posted on
12/10/2010 4:16:04 PM PST by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Moseley
Note to readers...notice how Moseley posts something that backs my point entirely, yet tries to claim it supports Miss O’Donnell’s wrong response.
Don’t overlook “direct” and “unapportioned”...if it were just “income tax,” as Miss O’Donnell claimed, then there would be no need for those adjectives!
48 posted on
12/10/2010 4:16:28 PM PST by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: Moseley
Note to readers...notice how Moseley posts something that backs my point entirely, yet tries to claim it supports Miss O’Donnell’s wrong response.
Don’t overlook “direct” and “unapportioned”...if it were just “income tax,” as Miss O’Donnell claimed, then there would be no need for those adjectives!
49 posted on
12/10/2010 4:16:34 PM PST by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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