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What does the Amendment sixteen Constitution say?

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The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution reads: "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 orenumeration."

This amendment allows the federal government to collect an income tax from the people and use it however it sees fit. The amendment was passed in answer to a prior Supreme Court decision prohibiting such direct taxation.

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