And a stupid people, idiots living in 1913, made this stinker of a law constitutional today by passing the 16th amendment.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Those morons gave gave congress a blank check. Why? Because the country was full of farmers that didn't give two farks about city folk that used paper money to survive. It wasn't their problem.
But who today can live without an income (besides Democrats)?
I don’t think that is it. The 16th Am allowed USG to legally, directly tax corporations. This was all part of the Corporate Income Tax of 1909. The meaning of income was as it meant there. The pretense of individual citizen taxes came into being as part of the War Powers Act, during WWII. As such, this act and the USC allows special taxes and other laws, during was, for a period of two years. Since it wasn’t reinstated it legally ended after then.
I repeat:
“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that arent true.”
— attributed to Mark Twain
This guy? http://youtu.be/IzxRDsBtXrM