[Amendment10]

Harvard Law School-indoctrinated Justice Scalia had a golden opportunity to tell the students about Justice John Marshall's official clarification of Congess limited power to lay taxes - and Scalia blew it.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Good point.

Unfortunately, the 16the amendment explicitly allows for income tax to be levied. And realistically, the tax money collected is spent on whatever the president, Congress, or bureaucrats want to spend it on.

[Repeal The 17th]

Some other FReeper (can't remember who it was) pointed out the other day
that the main thing about the 16th amendment wasn't the "tax on income"
but that a federal tax, for the first time ever,
could be levied upon an individual citizen.
Up until that time, there was very little interaction
between an individual citizen and the federal government.

AMENDMENT XVI
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
"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."

"Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes ... without regard to any census or enumeration.