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  • Re: Alternative to the income tax

    All: There is a lot of mis-information here, which I suppose is not uncommon. The 16th Amendment did not make Income taxes legal, nor did it allow for income taxes to be assessed withut apportionment. What it did is to make the taxing of income from different sources untaxable at different rates. That's...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Donald Lingerfelt on Thu, Nov 15 2007
  • Alternative to the income tax

    I understand that Misseans would like to see all taxes abolished, but please humor me. Prior to the passage of the 16th amendment, direct taxes were to be "apportioned." Correct me if I'm wrong, but my guess is that this meant that the federal government had the authority, as delegated...
    Posted to Political Theory (Forum) by Jason Dean on Wed, Oct 31 2007
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