Posted on 05/11/2014 6:09:10 PM PDT by JOHN W K
Another part of that, was that Senators were appointed by, and answerable to, their state legislatures. They would thus be uninterested in making their states shell out money for programs that would be better carried out at the state or local levels.
see Section 7 of the direct tax of 1813 allowing states to pay their respective quotas and be entitled to certain deductions in meeting their payment on time.
However, if a state refuses or neglects to pay its share of the tax, then, and only then is the federal government authorized to enter that state and collect the tax.
JWK
A nation of people made dependent upon government for their subsistence, is a nation doomed to being enslaved by the iron fist which feeds them
Your logic is flawed. People go to jail, therefore they are wrong? So I suppose you support the Federal Reserve too then eh?
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