Re: Income Shmimcome
""In 1895, in the
Supreme Court case of Pollock v Farmer's Loan and Trust (157 U.S.
429), the Court disallowed a federal income tax.
""
Have you actually read that case, or are you just regurgitating baloney
you heard from some other huckster?
I'm quite sure it's the latter and not the former, because if you had
actually read both of the opinions involved in the case, particularly the
opinion on rehearing, Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co., 158 U.S. 601
(1895), you would have come across the following:
"We have considered the act only in respect of the tax on income derived
from real estate, and from invested personal property, and have not
commented on so much of it as bears on gains or profits from business,
privileges, or employments, in view of the instances in which taxation on
business, privileges, or employments has assumed the guise of an excise
tax and been sustained as such."
Do you know what that means? It states, in no uncertain terms, that the
income tax, insofar as it applies to wages or business profits, is
CONSTITUTIONAL. The only tax that was held unconstitutional in Pollock v.
Farmers Loan & Trust Co. was the tax on income derived from real estate
and from investments - stocks and bonds.
Now, since that case was decided prior to the 16th Amendment, it
necessarily follows, as a matter of simple logic (which you, apparently,
lack completely) that wages have always been taxable by Congress ever
since 1789.
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