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1. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and, 2. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise there
by sclarisse 4y ago
1. The power to tax is the power to destroy, and,
2. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
If you want to amend the Constitution that’s another matter.
- drsnow 4y agoIt is neither respecting an establishment of religion, nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof, to require that they pay taxes to support the society which allows them, as of now absurdly for free, to function and exist in the very first place.
- tedajax 4y agoThat seems like an extremely daft interpretation of what taxation is.
- sclarisse 4y agoTell that to Chief Justice John Marshall (McCulloch v Maryland, 1819.)