The 16th Amendment:

“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.”

The Declaration of Independence and Constitution were created in part to escape the abusive taxation of the King of England, yet at the turn of the 20th century our leaders convinced 3/5 of the states and a majority of the population to put a form of self taxation into the very document that was created to escape and shake of the chains of tyranny our founders fought with such bloody resolve to eliminate?

The 16th Amendment is anti-Constitutional. The previous 15 amendments are all designed as protections of American’s rights that the Declaration of Independence and Constitution declares are given to us by our Creator. The United States is merely a protector of those rights and that is legally proclaimed through the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

The bright idea to make the 16th amendment to the constitution is an idea giving power to a consensus of dictators the right to putatively disempower the very people that the constitution it was amending was meant to empower. The 16th amendment was purely a manipulative power grab by the leaders of the day to seize what belonged to the people and place it in the hands of a few. It effectievly centralized our government.

It should never have been made a part of the constitution. The 16th amendment must be repealed just like the 18th Amendment was repealed. There should be a national referendum on the fair tax to replace the 16th Amendment. I don’t know how our ancestors from the turn of the 20th century could vote to enslave themselevs and future generations by making taxation a constitutional power. A power government was never meant to have since power is not given to government, but the responsibility to defend American rights is the only power. By creating the 16th Amendment we have given those in power the right to have power instead of giving people the right to have power.

The Constitution is by its very virtue a document that protects the rights of Americans as opposed to protecting the right of government to tax us. The 16th Amendment in contradiction to the purpose of the constitution actually protects the government from the people. It gives government a right. That is insane in our system. It essentially gives a right to dictatorship by comittee which means Congress is a dictator.

It takes away the right of free people to live freely and to decide freely. The 16th Amendment in essence cancels out the previous 15 Amendments to the American Constitution. We have no constitutional rights as long as the 16th Amendment is a part of a document that is supposed to protect our God given rights. The 16th Amendment is in essence became the core of the constitution because it gives the right to the government to levy taxes and to levy taxes on anything and the power to tax is the power to destroy. If you can tax anything you can control anything and the means of that control is to use these powers of government to force you to pay and if you don’t to haul you off to jail or use the myriad of other laws to take your livelyhood and earnings away.