In a message dated 8/28/02 3:35:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< Uh, how about the first income tax ever passed? It had super-majority support in amendment form! >> Congress passed the first federal income tax in 1861, without supermajority support. If you'd asked the average Northern voter in 1861 if he supported taxing the wealthiest northerners to pay for a war against the South, he might have said yes, but if you'd asked him if he supported a precedent which the government could then use to take a large share of his own income and force him to file returns revealing his activities to the federal government, I rather doubt that he would have said yes. David
