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Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Amendment XVI
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.
A direct tax is an income tax. This direct tax was to be levied by apportionment the same as the Representatives of the House of Representatives were to be elected. Just as the number of Representatives of a state were to be subject to the population of a state so were the direct taxes. The states were to pay to the federal government a tax upon the income of the state based upon the population of the state. This was the fee the states were to pay the federal government for services the federal government undertook on behalf of the several states. The income tax or direct tax was never intended to be placed on individuals. The personal income tax was in fact foreign to the constitution and ruled as an unconstitutional tax and the courts held further that the income of an individual based upon his labor was indeed unconstitutional. Income was defined as the profit made from added value received as a result manufacturing or other legitimate business enterprise.
Wages, salaries and tips are not income for tax purposes. The income of a state is now taxed without regard to population but the representation in the House of Representatives is apportioned by population. That is the difference the 16th Amendment and the original wording of the constitution. The legal definition of income was never change in the 16th amendment so the words, from whatever source derived, does not apply to a personal income in any way. The personal income tax is but just one more example of perverted law.
Anyone who supports a personal income tax is a socialist by definition and the personal income tax is a socialist tax for the purpose of redistribution of wealth. It is theft. I could care less if someone wraps themselves in conservative clothing.
No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Amendment XVI
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.
A direct tax is an income tax. This direct tax was to be levied by apportionment the same as the Representatives of the House of Representatives were to be elected. Just as the number of Representatives of a state were to be subject to the population of a state so were the direct taxes. The states were to pay to the federal government a tax upon the income of the state based upon the population of the state. This was the fee the states were to pay the federal government for services the federal government undertook on behalf of the several states. The income tax or direct tax was never intended to be placed on individuals. The personal income tax was in fact foreign to the constitution and ruled as an unconstitutional tax and the courts held further that the income of an individual based upon his labor was indeed unconstitutional. Income was defined as the profit made from added value received as a result manufacturing or other legitimate business enterprise.
Wages, salaries and tips are not income for tax purposes. The income of a state is now taxed without regard to population but the representation in the House of Representatives is apportioned by population. That is the difference the 16th Amendment and the original wording of the constitution. The legal definition of income was never change in the 16th amendment so the words, from whatever source derived, does not apply to a personal income in any way. The personal income tax is but just one more example of perverted law.
Anyone who supports a personal income tax is a socialist by definition and the personal income tax is a socialist tax for the purpose of redistribution of wealth. It is theft. I could care less if someone wraps themselves in conservative clothing.