US Constitution - Art 1/Sect 9:
No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
“No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.”
It may be the Constitution, but it is certainly not an easy-to-understand sentence. Do we need a “translation” of the constitution, similiar to the various translations of the Bible, that states things more clearly to today’s Americans?
Direct tax? No, because not by proportion. Excise tax? No because the tax is on what you don’t buy, not on what you buy. Income tax? I don’t think so. Thus this must be a tax not authorized by the Constitution.