1913 is a year that will live in U.S. History infamy. First the 16th Amendment allowing congress to tax incomes “without regard to any census or enumeration” and then the 17th which in effect destroyed federalism. Not to mention that Woodrow Wilson was installed as POTUS ushering in the Progressive Era that hit it’s zenith with FDR. The rest is just window dressing. The Republic essentially died in 1913.
Tomorrow I’m going to pass these posts to my FL State assemblyman and Senator. Think about doing the same in your home State. Twenty-six (or was it 28?) States challenged Obamacare. Resistance is in the air.
Nah, the 16th amendment COULDN'T have come first.
That would mean the 16th was passed by those wonderful, statesmen-like giants of the Senate who were appointed by state legislators and believed in representing state interests and upholding federalism. NO WAY would such politicians pass such sweeping draconian federal legislation like an national income tax. If they did, it would mean the anti-17th crowd is wrong that state legislative appointed politicians will "save our Republic"