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Originally Posted by Xenophon
@ZeroSpinBoson: "Will do. I do hope you're not one of these silly people, though"
Nope. Income tax, however little I like the way we do it, is clearly constitutional. 16th amendment and all that.
I'd be thrilled if we could outlaw payroll withholding, though. I suspect that many Americans would pay a lot more attention to government spending if they had to write a quarterly check to Uncle Sam for the full amount of their income tax liability for that quarter! They'd surely have a clearer view of how much they are paying. But that's a tactical idea, not a matter of principle.
Xenophon
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I've been told that this amendment was never properly (legally??) ratified by the states. Don't know whether that's true or not.