RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Flat Tax

["Hargus, Diana" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Mike Miller wrote:

>On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Vern Green wrote:
>
>>> I just looked up "hyperbole" in the dictionary and there 
>was a little 
>>> photo of Vern Green in that entry.
>>
>> Really, I should sue, they never got my permission to use my picture.
>>
>>> Would any respectable physicist endorse Deepak Chopra's views on 
>>> quantum mechanics?  Would any respectable psychologist endorse 
>>> past-lives regression therapy?  Would any respectable computer 
>>> scientist have said that the TRS-80 was a better computer than the 
>>> Cray-1?  Would any respectable economist say that the Fair Tax plan 
>>> is better than what is currently in place?
>>
>>
>> Well, lets take a look at it this way.
>
>Not me.  I'm done with this one.
>

Mike,

How about this for a flat tax footnote:

Under the Constitution, Congress could impose direct taxes only if they
were levied in proportion to each State's population. Thus, when a flat
rate Federal income tax was enacted in 1894, it was quickly challenged
and in 1895 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional because it
was a direct tax not apportioned according to the population of each
state.  http://www.treas.gov/education/fact-sheets/taxes/ustax.shtml

We are talking about the tax that started it all, the 16th Amenment.
Need any other reason to just say no?

Diana 
 
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