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Paying income tax _was_ unconstitutional. The 16th amendment had to be passed to make it constitutional. Only Federal Income taxes after 1913 were constitutiona
by Afforess 8y ago
Paying income tax _was_ unconstitutional. The 16th amendment had to be passed to make it constitutional. Only Federal Income taxes after 1913 were constitutional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...
- mikestew 8y agoGrammatical tense is important, as I was referring those that argue the same even today.
- dragonwriter 8y ago> Paying income tax _was_ unconstitutional. It was never generally held to be, and the US had (though not permanently) income taxes prior to the 16th Amendment. > The 16th amendment had to be passed to make it constitutional. No, it had to be passed to make income tax on revenues from certain forms of interest, dividends, and rents to be Constitutional under the (quite controversial) holding in Pollock v. Farmers Loan Trust Co. Income taxes moe generally were held by the Supreme Court to be excises rather than direct taxes and therefore Constitutional even prior to the 16th. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock_v._Farmers%27_Loan_%26_Trust_Co https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock_v._Farmers%27_Loan_%....