Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Flat Tax

["Diana Hargus" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Mike Millerwrote:


> On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Hargus, Diana wrote:
>
> > 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?
>
>
> Maybe I don't get it.  The 16th Amendement allowed Congress to tax us. 
> They could use a flat income tax if they wanted.
>
> Mike

It started as a "a flat rate Federal income tax"

Another reason I am a little leary of this whole flat tax affair is we have 
people from most political parties supporting it.   We have Dick Armey on 
the left and we have people from the right like Daniel J. Mitchell, Ph.D., 
(http://www.heritage.org/about/staff/DanielMitchell.cfm). and then we have 
the page I mentioned in a previous message with libertarians, progressives, 
etc all commenting on its greatness.  If so many politicians think it is so 
great, why haven't they done something before now?  Besides,  I get a little 
scared when so many politicians get together and agree on something like 
this and say it is "good for us."

Then again, I could be full of it and it could all be a Republican plot to 
try to make the left look bad again...

Diana

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