posted by HOF on coattails

The Sixteenth Amendment?

Is that an AK-47 or an AR-15? 

posted by QuakerOats

 

Is that an AK-47 or an AR-15? 

posted by BoatShoes

Congress passed the 16th Amendment ... granting Congress the right to tax.

posted by O-Trap

Congress passed the 16th Amendment ... granting Congress the right to tax.

Learning Before We Meme: 

Article I, Sec. 8, Clause 1 as written when the Constitution was ratified: 

"The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."

Article I, Section 9, Clause 4: 

"No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken."

The Supreme Court ruled that Income Taxes on non-labor income were direct taxes that had to be apportioned in Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co. 

Accordingly, The 16th Amendment was subsequently ratified to allow Congress to levy taxes on income from any source - not just wages - without apportionment: 

"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"

posted by O-Trap

Dead god. I'm going to create a taxation thread, these memes are pathetic.

posted by O-Trap

Congress passed the 16th Amendment ... granting Congress the right to tax.

posted by justincredible

Dead god. I'm going to create a taxation thread, these memes are pathetic.

No, it's just that the memes are so bad.

posted by justincredible

No, it's just that the memes are so bad.

Justincredible's Face When He Realizes Taxation Is Not Theft