Fifty years ago, a remarkable libertarian, personal friend, witty Georgite, then editor of Human Events, came out with a landmark book, The Income Tax: Root of All Evil (text and PDF). Its author was Frank Chodorov who saw raging about him—what’s new?—interventionism, welfarism, political mischief and corruption galore, an ongoing mangling of the limited government model of the Founding Fathers. Hence the “all evil” in his subtitle, which he described to me privately as “the rape of society.” [More]
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What is with the misuse of “alas” that started up these last few years?
Unless the author means that a misfortune has befallen us now that others can read Chodorov’s writings, and uses the word ‘wisdom’ ironically.
‘Alas’ isn’t latin for ‘at last’, people.
Dumb question: What was the intention behind the phrase “unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration” quoted in Art. 1, sec. 9?
The purpose of the article is to balance the power of the central government with that of the states.
If State A has 9 representatives, and State B has 1, and the federal government wanted $100 in taxes, it would ask State A for $90 and State B for $10. And by saying, “ask State A for”, what is meant is that the Congress would have to ask the State governments to provide the money, since it couldn’t tax the citizens directly.
That’s my unedumacated appraisal. There’s lots of nuances I probably miss, but it doesn’t matter since the 16th amendment wiped out this safeguard.
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