[Sofa000King]

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers...." Article I, Section 2.

The very first "direct Tax" levied was progressive, and was not declared unconstitutional. Better go argue that one with Oliver Ellsworth.

[dirtboy]

The very first "direct Tax" levied was progressive, and was not declared unconstitutional. Better go argue that one with Oliver Ellsworth.

Uh, once again, dude, there is no provision for progressive taxation in the constitution, only the ability to choose to levy such. If this country was founded on a principle of progressive taxation, it would have been part of the Constitution from the git-go, not part of a legislative action a decade later.

I guess you're one of those Clintonian types who can take events that happened a decade apart and claim they happened at the same time.

[dirtboy]

Wesley, is that you? Your first two posts, after signing up on FR today, was to make the same refutation to the same article posted twice - and you went to this trouble several hours apart. Hmmm....