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Heh - 16th Amendment

A good bit of basic history: We do not need a large government to take care of us -- we did amazingly well on our own for the first 137 years. The image does forget the Municipal, County and State taxes that were legal as well as the prominence of charitable organizations. People back then did tithe to help people but it was local and personal and not institutionalized. The text of the 16th:

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.

Only 30 words bringing so much pain. Posted by DaveH at January 24, 2014 10:59 PM