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The 16th Amendment allows for an income tax: > The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apporti
by elicash 3y ago
The 16th Amendment allows for an income tax:
> 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.
- jcranmer 3y agoActually, it doesn't: Congress already had the power to levy income taxes. The power to levy an income tax predates the 16th Amendment. What the 16th Amendment did was to explicitly overturn the Pollock SCOTUS decision, which said that a tax on rental income is basically a tax on property, and a tax on property is a direct tax which requires specifically apportionment among the states per the Constitution.
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