The Sixteenth Amendment

"Truth will set you free." A Citizens' Handbook | 7/10/02 | Johjn Conway

[Lurking Libertarian]

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.

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".

[conway]

I dd some research on the income tax thingy and here is what I found. It was sold to the folks at that time by telling them the rich were enjoying prosperity on their backs and should give some back.

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.