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To: ChicagoConservative27

A ‘WEALTH Tax’ is a very different beast from an ‘INCOME Tax’ and would almost certainly need, as did the Income Tax, a Constitutional Amendment barring the Dems packing the Supreme Court.


17 posted on 06/14/2021 12:27:26 PM PDT by SES1066 (Ask not what the LEFT can do for you, rather ask what the LEFT is doing to YOU!)
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To: SES1066

Even a packed SCOTUS cannot work around this one: A WEALTH tax, like the INCOME tax, is a DIRECT tax against the people of the individual states.

The US Constitution expressly FORBIDS the US Government from levying a DIRECT tax. That is why the 16th Amendment had to be passed.

The 16th Amendment explicitly mentions an Income Tax … not a Property Tax.


33 posted on 06/14/2021 12:58:36 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: SES1066

You nailed it. Sadly, liberals don’t know the difference between income and wealth.


35 posted on 06/14/2021 1:04:46 PM PDT by spaced
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