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We have been covering the US Constitution line by line. When Republicans wave their paper props and parrot their vile machinations, we will be prepared to expose the lies. We have finished the main body of the Constitution. Now we continue with the Amendments. You can find the last article on the main body of the Constitution<\/font> here<\/a>. It has links to all the others. The text comes from<\/font> The US Constitution<\/a>. Previous articles in the Amendment series:<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The Sixteenth Amendment allows the collection of income tax. It allows a single day of true bipartisanship each year. On April 15, both Republican and Democratic voters feel the same pain between the nether cheeks.<\/font><\/p>\n There are some areas of controversy. Republicans want to roll back the biggest middle class tax cut in history, passed in the stimulus, despite the fact that it was paid for in the budget, They also want to extend the Bush tax cuts for the rich, at a ten year cost of $768 billion, despite the fact that it was never paid for in the budget.<\/font><\/p>\n Another area of some controversy is that some believe that the Sixteenth was never properly ratified. I have researched this, and the evidence points to proper ratification, but I found no conclusive proof for that. Nevertheless, the matter has been litigated more times than a DINO\u2019s GOP flea count, and no tax protester has ever won on these grounds. So only those so stupid that they give credence to the absurd, like Obama was born in Kenya, have an excuse for believing they are going to get out of paying taxes this way.<\/font><\/p>\n Republicans prefer a flat tax, because it favors the rich. They argue that the current code is bloated. On that, they are correct. I\u2019m 62 years old, and I read at a pretty good clip. Had I started reading the tax code at age 18, and read sixteen hours daily without breaks, I would not live long enough to finish. However, because an income tax can be progressive, that is the best solution. The bloat comes from loopholes for the rich and corporate welfare. We can eliminate them to simplify the code.<\/font><\/p>\n I shall try to put up a new article in this series almost every day. It will take some time to cover it all, but when we\u2019re done, we shall be immune to the lies with which Republicans seek to undermine our freedoms.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We have been covering the US Constitution line by line. When Republicans wave their paper props and parrot their vile machinations, we will be prepared to expose the lies. We have finished the main body of the Constitution. Now we continue with the Amendments. You can find the last article on the main body […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Article I<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles II and III<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article IV<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article V<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VI<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VIII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles IX and X<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles XI and XII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XIII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XIV<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XIV<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article XVI<\/h3>\n
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