[central_va]

So that would make the south in favor of the liberal income tax rather than the conservative tariff.

I think a repeal of the 16th amendment would have the same favor NOW in the South as the original passing had...

[donmeaker]

Note that the income tax before the amendment was legal:

Only rental income was not considered an indirect tax.

My problem with taxes is what they use it for.

Agriculture: no federal powers to regulate.
Education: no federal powers to regulate.
Labor: no federal powers to regulate
Housing and Urban development: no federal powers to regulate

All those departments should be shut down today, and their workers sent home. Then we can have litigation as to whether they get paid a pension for the unconstitutional work they were doing all those years, or not. Not I would say.

The taxes collected by those institutions should go uncollected. The pretended laws or regulations should go unenforced and unrecorded.

Then we can get to work on cutting back constitutionally permitted but unwise aspects of the government.

[donmeaker]

I would rather have a constitutional limitation on the maximum income tax level: say 10%. At that point income taxes would be low, and money would flood the country, businesses would crop up, and they would be able to keep most of their profit.

Repeal of the income tax amendment would not affect anyone who didn’t make their income from rented property.

Repeal of the senatorial election amendment would not affect the kind of bum we elect, just what lable was on the pig. All senators seem to be big government swine out to bribe their state into electing them again. The difference needs to be more than “Do I bribe half the voters or half the legislators?”