Posted on 04/21/2012 4:43:36 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Not one use of the word "is" in that diatribe, no wonder people are confused about the meaning. </sarcasm>
The income tax is not about revenue and that was known at the time the amendment was being debated.
"A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man's business; the eye of the Federal inspector will be in every man's counting house . . . The law will of necessity have inquisitorial features, it will provide penalties, it will create complicated machinery. Under it men will be hailed into courts distant from their homes. Heavy fines imposed by distant and unfamiliar tribunals will constantly menace the tax payer. An army of Federal inspectors, spies and detectives will descend upon the state . . . Who of us who have had knowledge of the doings of the Federal officials in the Internal Revenue service can be blind to what will follow?"
Virginia House Speaker Richard E. Byrd, 1910, predicting what would happen if a federal income tax became law.
Average people understand there is a difference between a Roman Catholic bishop saying something like this and a Protestant minister, even if he serves a big church or is a prominent televangelist.
I’m very happy with the way the Roman Catholics are getting angry.
The good Bishop is right, according to some of the best analysis available:
Good Read:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
Every preacher in America should be joining together against obama. They’re not. They’re cowards. They run and hide from evil. Do they have no faith in the God they preach about?
Shoot, they won’t even clean up their own house.
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