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In article <yjcshr=@dixie.com> jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond) writes:

>Actually Richard, the Constitution was written specifically to prohibit
>federal income taxes.  
[...]
>(BTW, has anyone contemplated
>the fact that the 16th did not repeal the requirement of Article 8, para 1
>that taxes be uniform?  That would sure kill "progressive" [newspeak for
>'soak the worker, give to poor and gov't tit suckers'] tax schemes.)

Facinating ... Has noone brought a test case on this?  It would be
fun to watch!!

Wonder if 'uniform' would be construed to be 'uniform percent' or 
'uniform dollars' ... 

BTW, has anyone wondered about the Clinton regiem plans for a 
blanket energy tax?  Why, if they want to encourage folks to move
away from imported oil, are the proposing to impose an energy tax
that is 'uniform' across al energy forms?  {nuke, natrual gas, coal,
oil, hydro, wind, the works ...}  Hardly seems like a Democratic
approach to not tinker with the 'economic incentives' while imposing
an economy flattening tax ...


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