Income taxes and the Supreme Court

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Uploaded by on Sep 30, 2009

Did the Supreme Court rule that income taxes are unconstitutional in a decision made in 1880? Bill answers that question submitted by a BillOReilly.com Premium Member in this excerpt from our weekly Backstage Conversation webcast.

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  • Is a Direct Tax on someone unconstitutional ?

  • Yeah Bill I guess all those other things in the constitution are 130 years behind us as well...

  • According to Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution, it has always been unconstitutional for the U.S. Federal Government to directly tax U.S. Supreme Court Judges repeatedly rejected any claims that the 16th Amendment changed the constitutional limits on direct taxes: Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co., 240 U.S. 1, The Supreme Court ruled that the 16th "created no new power of taxation" and it "did not change the constitutional limitations which forbid any direct taxation of individuals".

  • During the 19th century, the U.S. Supreme Court did hold that the income tax which was levied during the Civil War was unconstitutional. This holding was based on the fact that the income tax was a direct tax, which could only be levied in proportion to the census. That is irrelevant nowadays. The Sixteenth Amendment expressly overturned the U.S. Supreme Court by granting to the Congress the power to levy income taxes without regard to the census.

  • You better start paying taxes conservatives.. It is a constitutional mandate.

  • the next 4 years are gonna really suck

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