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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: thames_sider who wrote (16783)	6/15/2001 11:35:05 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Power has to shift somewhere; Not really. Power can simply evaporate. Unless you consider a government body dissolving certain of its powers to be transferring them to the people, which in most cases I wouldn't. Take the income tax. At one time, our government didn't tax incomes. They lacked the power to do it. Then the 16th amendment was passed, giving the government the power to tax incomes. And they exercised that power. Boy, did they exercise it. We have massive volumes of codes and regulations telling how that power is exercised and what happens to people who don't "voluntarily" cooperate.. The power to tax incomes could simply be given up. Not transferred, simply given up. Repeal the 16th amendment. No more power or right to tax incomes. That's not transferring power to the people; people don't tax their own incomes. Prior to 1913 there was no power to tax incomes. Repealing the 16th amendment is giving up the power without transferring it anywhere.