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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: HairBall who wrote (312)	6/26/2000 11:16:00 AM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 1013

The income tax idea was floated by contingents of both parties in the House and the Senate beginning about the 1880's. Five times it was quashed. It was finally passed with the promise to State Governors that the income tax would only be assessed on incomes above $5,000 per year. Since less than 2% of the population earned more than $5,000 a year at that time, they thought they could get away with it. It was enacted in 1914 but taxes were not collected until the start of 1917. Later, during WWII, an emergency measure was enacted allowing the Treasury to collect with-holding tax. This allowed the federal government direct access to individual American's earnings and placed civil and criminal penalties upon employers who did not calculate the tax and send it to the Treasury as earnings were paid. These unconstitutional, illegal acts were never voted on or approved by American citizens.Many times tax cases have been taken to the Supreme Court, but the Court refuses to hear them. Why? Because they would have to find the IRS unconstitutional. And... I guess the WWII "emergency" is still ongoing because they haven't repealed that yet. GET RID OF THE IRS... NOW!!!