Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005
"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert
"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker
"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison
"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman
Surely any champion of freedom wants to get rid of the income tax. And surely the way to really get rid of the income tax is to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Right?
Wrong.
Repealing the Sixteenth Amendment would be a waste of time because its disappearance would change nothing. Alas, Congress could continue to tax incomes (and anything else).
The rest of this week's TGIF, "Don't Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment!," is at the Foundation for Economic Education website.
—Henry David Thoreau
"Free association . . . the only true form of society."
—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
2 comments:
Barr is parroting the standard ignorance about the amendment. He should do some reading and less talking. Damn it, when will libertarians read the Anti-federalists? They warned us about all the dangers in the Constitution. You'd think this was something new!
The Income Tax is the only tax we have that has any relation to one's ability to pay it. All these income tax cuts of the Save the Rich movement have only caused property taxes to go through the roof, thereby forcing people on fixed incomes (and others) out of their homes. Feh!
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