lrs, you just responded to 8 posts... seriously... see first to understand then to be understood....
On 4/19/10, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > Correct. I know this. Ok, WW1 was a bit late. > > The amendment for one was supposedly never actually and properly ratified > (conspiracy), I know they can and should levy taxes now with the size and > scope of g0v't as it is, I just don't feel that we would need to if we > limited the gov't to the common defense and interstate trade as it's > supposed to be mainly. > > -----Original Message----- > From: William Bowen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:26 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama > > > Tim, > > The US Constitution was amended (for the 16th time) in 1913 to allow > the Congress to levy taxes on income. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Consti > tution > > > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 5:21 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> You know this country was founded by a revolution started essentially over >> taxes right? >> >> Did you also know that it wasn't until WW 1 that the federal gov't even > had >> the ability to levy income taxes against individuals? >> >> I still say that if we did a true constitutional review. Got rid of every >> law and agency not in it, and limited our gov't to just what it contains, > we >> would be able to subsist (the gov't) on tariffs and other non-income > taxes. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Vivec [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 10:58 AM >> To: cf-community >> Subject: Tea Party tax protestors amuse Obama >> >> >> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20002677-503544.html >> >> "The president went over the laundry list of tax cuts instituted in >> Washington over the past year. >> >> "In all, we passed 25 different tax cuts last year. And one thing we >> haven't done is raise income taxes on families making less than >> $250,000 a year -- another promise that we kept," he told supporters >> at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. "So I've been a little >> amused over the last couple of days where people have been having >> these rallies about taxes. You would think they would be saying thank >> you." >> >> The tide of craziness that seems to be sweeping America is incredible. >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316259 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
