On May 8, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
Matthias Julius wrote:
To cite the U.S. Constitution
(from http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html):
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| Section 8 - Powers of Congress
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| The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties,
| Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common
| Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties,
| Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
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Thanks for that cite, goes to show another area the Feds are
messing up.
Uniform taxation... yeah, and what's this with the progressive tax
scale? Not
very uniform to me.
[...snip...]
You might want to read the 16th Amendment. (http://
www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am16)..
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| Amendment XVI
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| 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.
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...as well as the various court rulings and Congressional Research
Service reports. You might find the analysis posted at http://
www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/04/16/greenslade.htm interesting.
FWIW, ''uniform'' doesn't mean ''flat''. It just means geographic
uniformity for the rules of taxation--i.e. not favoring one state
over another. If you're so inclined, you could try to argue _de
facto_ non-uniformity--e.g. CT with a higher median income pays
higher federal incomde taxes. Good luck on that one, though!
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