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To: average joe who wrote (2281)	10/7/2002 6:13:27 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 7689

Excessive taxation does infringe on this part: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility If excessive taxation infringes on the constitution do to that phrase then anything that get the country up in arms would infringe on the constitution. I don't think that something controversial and or unpopular is automatically unconstitutional. I would put excessive taxation under the category of "intensely undesirable" and in the category of "really stupid ideas", I would probably also label it unethical but I can't agree with you that it is unconstitutional. Amendment II "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." This amendment doesn't raise the issue of taxation at all. The only way it could even arguably be relevant as a matter of constitutional law was if the taxes where so high that most people could not afford guns but that seems to be an enormous stretch. If excessive taxation lead to armed rebellion those guns might be relevant but the 2nd amendment would only be indirectly relevant in that it helped more people have guns. That fact would not mean that the tax violated the 2nd amendment. Tim

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