Posted on 07/10/2002 11:37:45 AM PDT by conway
Our U.S. Constitution is an agreement between We the People and our public servants. It is the rules of the game agreed upon before the Senate, house, executive and judicial branch of government were set into motion. It is the document that allows them to exist at all.
In this legal document of ours we set down specific duties to be performed by the various branches we brought into existance. We also set limits to the power they could wield and expressley forbade them others.
Article I section 9: "No capitation, or other direct tax shall be laid unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Capitation: A direct uniform tax imposed on each head or person.
Direct tax: A tax on business property or savings dividens etc. The founders knew that without this clause our books would be open for inspection and we would no longer be secure in our papers and effects.
"...Herein before directed to be taken." referrs to Section VIII of the Constitution, which I encourage you to read in full.
What this means is that Congress has zero legal authority to impose these kinds of taxes on you and I. That being said, and all bills for raising revenue originate in Congress (section VII), how do they originate an Amendment to the constitutin like the 16th amendment which says:
(1913) "Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among several States, and without regard to any sensus or renumeration." This is as in your face as is legally possible.
Sction VIII: "Congress shall have the power to raise and collect taxes, duties, Impost and excises...but all duties, and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."
We agreed to be governed by law and not man or a reliogion. Without our supreme laws of the land we are not free from arbitrary rule, which is the meaning of the word "Liberty."
Congress broke the law when they proposed this amendment and It makes no difference if it was ratified or not, it does not, in legal sense, exist at all.
"All laws repugnant to our Constitution are null and void. US Supreme Court. Marbury V Madison 2 Cranch 5 1803
One law has to be supreme so if you pass one that contradicts the supreme law then which one is valid? You win the Big Enchilada if you picked the laws in our supreme legal docment called the "CONSTITUTION".
This is why the Constitution isn't studied in our government induction camps.
Nope. The Federalist Papers, and court cases decided in the late 18th century, show that the term "direct tax" was used then to mean a tax on land-- what we call today a "property tax".
Congress wanted to put a 3% cap on it, but didn't because they were afraid the govt. would actually raise it to that level.
Prior to 1943 it was 1% and 70% of the people didn't make enough to have to pay. In 1943 Citizens were asked to keep records for two years to help pay for te war. Once they had their hands on the money they bullied everyone into this we have today.
The enforcers were foisted on us in 1953 when a Puerto Rican agency called the Internal Revenue Service was installed here.
I want to repeal the 16th amendment along with the 14th and the 17th amendment that took away states rights and further turned our Republic into a democracy, which has spawned socialism here. Does Washington ever get enough money? They take $17,500,000.00 a minute 24/7 and are running a deficit of 2 to 3 billion a year puttng us in debt to the tune of $6,500,000,000.00 to date. A child born today is $ 26,000.00 in debt and wi;ll be paying interest on that the rest of it's life. That is indentured servitude.
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