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the 16th amendment...
Amendment 16
16th amendment and a number of other things..including plain common sense.
the enforcement clause
amendment 20
the 16th amendment...
Amendment 16
It is the tenth amendment to the constitution.
Article I of the US Constitution gives Congress this power.
Article, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution authorizes Congress to levy taxes to pay our country's debts, to fund a military force, and for the general good of the country. Amendment XVI (Amended 16) to the Constitution gives Congress the right enact an income tax that doesn't have to be shared with the states. It also exempts income taxes from the Constitutional category of direct taxation.
The 16th Amendment - Status of Income Tax Clarified. It was ratified on 2/3/1913. 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.
The 16th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution allows for an income tax. Abraham Lincoln had used an income tax to finance the Civil War but it was latter found to be unconstitutional thus necessitating the 16th Amendment.
16th amendment and a number of other things..including plain common sense.
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.
Article 1 section 8 gives the powet to levy taxes, but the taxes must be uniform, Income tax was unconstitutional for that reason so congress passed the 16th amendment. The Sixteenth Amendment was specifically passed to give Congress this power. Income tax still was uniform through out the states, but now they are allowed to be based on income, instead of fixed. So every citizen must be taxed if a tax is given, either flat, or income. During the civil War a unconstitutional Income tax was 1st used, and started a series of conflicting court decisions For this reason Socialism, and communism is unconstitutional because it requires a tax on only the rich. Another amendment will have to be given to allow such a tax. the 16th amendment could be argued is unconstitutional by nature http://www.usconstitution.net/constamnotes.html
amendment 16
The 16th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gives the power to invoke and collect income taxes as well as other types of taxes. This Amendment was ratified in 1913. Abraham Lincoln issued the first tax on people's income during the Civil War but this tax was later found to be unconstitutional. This is why the !6th Amendment was required to legalize the taxes.