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To: mandaladon

...Such laws might wind up being battled in the Supreme Court, too, because they might not be constitutional...

For the life of me, I can’t find anything about taxes in the Constitution as a requirement for running for President.
Democrats are desperate, deranged, and Psychotic and throwing everything against the refrigerator door, hoping something will stick.


32 posted on 06/24/2018 7:50:14 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: Sasparilla
Aren't income taxes a relatively recent (note, relatively) twist on generation of revenue for the federal government? The original Constitution could not have required public disclosure by candidates since there was no income tax back then.

It took Amendment 16 in 1913 to start it. I checked Amendment XVI and it says that the government has the power to levy taxes, but it says nothing about Presidential candidates, or anyone else for that matter, being required to make them public.

39 posted on 06/24/2018 7:57:32 AM PDT by chimera
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To: Sasparilla

“hoping something will stick.”
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When we at last see them digging and flicking their boogers, it would indicate they’ve run out of all options.


90 posted on 06/24/2018 10:18:41 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - US Pres. Donald J. Trump)
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To: Sasparilla

“For the life of me, I can’t find anything about taxes in the Constitution as a requirement for running for President.”

That won’t stop them. Over the past 50+ years the Supreme Court has found all sorts of things that are constitutional even though they are not in the Constitution.


91 posted on 06/24/2018 10:22:19 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot (Do Leftist/Liberals Really Believe That Dissent = Highest Form of Patriotism?)
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