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To: quimby

Under Robert’s theory, is there any limit on what government cannot coerce you into doing by making use of a tax?

Can they assign you a job and fine you $10K in taxes a month until you comply?

Can they limit you to one child per family?

WHERE IS THE LIMIT OF THIS POWER?


10 posted on 06/29/2012 9:46:37 AM PDT by The Free Engineer
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To: The Free Engineer

Eat your broccoli!


14 posted on 06/29/2012 9:56:49 AM PDT by quimby
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To: The Free Engineer

The limit on the power is the people we elect to office.

“Can they assign you a job and fine you $10K in taxes a month until you comply?”

Sure, why not? What Congress is gonna pass such a thing?


16 posted on 06/29/2012 10:03:18 AM PDT by saleman (!!!!)
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To: The Free Engineer

“WHERE IS THE LIMIT OF THIS POWER?”

The insidious tentacles of Roberts’ Rules can seep into our most basic rights - not just behaviors.

I don’t want to be a Methodist (no offense to Methodists), will I have to pay $10K to be a non-Methodist? Will we all have to pay $10K to be a non-atheist? You haven’t lost your freedom of religion so long as you can pay for it.
You name any God-given right, and this applies.

The government is now the mafia. All taxes have become protectionist monies.

Not only is there no limit to this taxing power, Roberts has made the Supreme Court superfluous if it no longer weighs on the constitutionality of a bill, and its only purpose is to find a way to legitimize anything Congress passes.

The only act Roberts Rules has declared unconstitutional is the Magna Carta.


21 posted on 06/29/2012 10:22:17 AM PDT by A'elian' nation (Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. Jacques Barzun)
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To: The Free Engineer
I think what Roberts is saying is that the Fed has unlimited powers of taxation, that taxation is controlled by the electorate, and that we the people should simply change the government if we don't agree with BHO and co.
(as in the upcoming elections)

Perhaps, we the people need to address this in a firm and binding way I.E. pass a constitutional admendment limiting the Fed's power of taxation, give aways, etc.

31 posted on 06/29/2012 10:58:10 AM PDT by Waymore Gimmie
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To: The Free Engineer

No. We now need a Constitutional Amendment that expressly restricts the power of the Government to tax in-activity.


37 posted on 06/29/2012 11:08:43 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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