[philman_36]

What does the 16th have to do with the income tax as it is implemented in the current tax in regards income?
Apparently, none. Isn't that what your "cut-n-paste" says?
Why don't you just tell me straight out since you know so much instead of clipping in your little snippets.
You know something like...The 16th doesn't have anything to do with the income tax as it is implemented in the current tax in regards income.

Maybe there is something you can "cut-n-paste" that directly addresses that.

[ancient_geezer]

I have notice from past experience with folks such as yourself that simple statments do not meet a requirement of evidence. It always begs the question, and I end up having to produce the reseach and citation anyway.

Now I just avoid the arguments, and let people read it from the source.

It works you now recognize that the 16th amendment is not the Constitutional authority for the income tax, Article I Section 8 is.

[ancient_geezer]

Maybe there is something you can "cut-n-paste" that directly addresses that.

I did, too bad you still fail to comprehend the importance of it.

Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co.(1916), 240 U.S. 103:

• "the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged, and being placed in the category of direct taxation subject to apportionment"