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Originally posted by Darth Butcher: Freak:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr /> AMENDMENT XVI
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
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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</font>[/quote]That would not ban the 'normal' income tax, which is indirect as long as it's paid by the employer, but it would ban the estate tax, capital gains tax, etc.
Depending on how the Supreme Court ruled, they might consider a means of getting your money back to be direct, in which case it would definitely be a load off Americans' backs.
By legislation, I really meant actual laws, not constitutional law.