.. On Mar 22, 12:05*pm, Earl Evleth wrote:


Two Supreme Court rulings affirmed the constitutionality of the Social
Security Act.


Consistent with when the Federal Income Tax became constitutionally
legal earlier but only through constitutional amendment. These
unconstitutional healthcare mandates the Obamaoids are trying to jam
through are very different.


".. Prior to 1913, it was a fact that the Federal government could not
tax us the way it now does. The Founding Fathers (in their wisdom)
provided in Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution that if the
Federal government was to levy a direct tax (like an income tax) on
its citizens, the amount of the tax would have to be the same citizen
by citizen. In other words, the Founding Fathers were saying that all
of us, as U.S. citizens, have the same constitutional rights and
obligations. If the government is to extract an obligation from us in
the form of a tax, that tax should also be equal in amount.
Therefore, the U.S. Constitution, as originally written, did not
authorize the Federal government to tax us on variable factors such as
our income.

We literally had to amend the Constitution to permit the Federal
government to income tax us as they now do. In 1913, more than two-
thirds of the States and Congress voted into law the Sixteenth
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Sixteenth Amendment
authorizes the Federal government to tax "income from any source
derived." In light of the incredibly broad breath of the Sixteenth
Amendment (that we were stupid enough as a people to authorize), it is
hard to give any credence to tax protester groups who claim the income
tax is unconstitutional.

Incidentally, a fascinating footnote to this discussion is the fact
that the promoters of the Sixteenth Amendment got it through the state
ratification process with the following "class envy" pitch: the
Federal income tax will only tax the extremely rich and not the middle-
class. As always happens, this "nail the rich guys" angle has
backfired on the common man and woman with the result that the
original 1913 income tax has grown from 9 to over 7,000 pages of
statutory law and has significantly gotten into the back pockets of a
majority of Americans...."

source:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/81d4zEvleths


Of course if you recall the Dred Scott decision some of the dictators
in black robes calling themeselves Supreme Court Justices will
sometimes "interpret" the law to conform to a political agenda or
"interpret" law in anyway in order to preserve the "unity" or
"stability" of the country.