What is the Sixteenth Amendment?

The Sixteenth Amendment allows the Federal Government to tax personal and private income, and did away with the requirement that taxes would be levied through a census only.

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#RGTS328 Is the Sixteenth Amendment a "good" amendment? (Rights and Amendments) No. In fact, an income tax that is progressive (in which the tax rate adjusts for income) is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, assuming that amendment's viabilit...
#RGTS327 Was the Sixteenth Amendment properly ratified? (Rights and Amendments) There have been legitimate questions about the Constitutionality of the Sixteenth Amendment, but they have typically been rejected.
#RGTS329 Is their an inherent flaw in a tax upon income? (Rights and Amendments) The inherent flaw of income tax is that it does not treat all people equally, whereas a tax on goods does treat all people equally. An income tax allows for tyranny, as the government can choose to pu...
#POW115 Is a tax on income wise? (Powers of Congress) Taxes that penalize income are unwise in a nation that desires to create and sustain wealth. In certain cases, taxing income will cause people to be less industrious, which will diminish both the inco...
#POW114 Is a tax on income constitutional? (Powers of Congress) The income tax was ruled unconstitutional, according to the Supreme Court in 1895. However, the 16th Amendment to our Constitution of 1913 declared the income tax to now be constitutional.
#JUD269 How is an amendment to the Constitution shown to be the will of the people? (Courts, States, and Constitutional Order) When two thirds (a super majority) of the members of both the Senate and the House of Representatives shall agree by a vote that an alteration would be proper, they may state such an alteration and pr...
#RGTS323 Were the legal procedures prescribed in the Constitution itself, adhered to when ratifying the fourteenth amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment - as just as its provisions may be - is a stain upon the American system of constitutional governance. It was not passed by three fourths of the States as requi...
#RGTS274 Has the Constitution ever been altered? (Rights and Amendments) Yes. Through its own constitutional amendment process.
#POW116 Is a tax on income moral? (Powers of Congress) Graduated taxes that treat people partially, by taxing different people at different rates, are immoral because they treat people unequally. It is the application of unjust weights and measures, which...
#POW117 Is there any other way that a tax may be unjust, aside from partiality? (Powers of Congress) Any wealth that is confiscated to redistribute to others is inherently unjust, and is theft. Likewise, any confiscation of wealth in order to finance governmental powers not granted them by the Consti...
#RGTS313 What is the Eleventh Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The Eleventh Amendment declares that Federal Courts can hear cases brought by private citizens against the States and that the States are not immune from suits brought by citizens of other States.
#RGTS332 What is the Eighteenth Amendment? (Rights and Amendments) The Eighteenth Amendment was a prohibition upon the sale of intoxicating beverages.