Blones said:
No, because the Supreme Court has ruled it so. Originally, the Constitution provided for direct taxes, which are divided equally amaongst the citizens, and indirect taxes, which you can avoid buy not purchasing the taxed item. The income tax is neither of these. Now, most people think that the 16th amendment granted Congress the power to levy income taxes, but this is not so. In the case of Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., the Supreme Court ruled that "the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation." Furthermore, in the case of Doyle v. Mitchell, the court defined the word "income" in the 16th amendment as meaning corporate profits, NOT personal wages. It's perfectly legal to tax a corporation's profit, but not an individual's earnings. |
I'm not sure how you figure abolishing one very big source of income for the US will help the country. If you are correct and it all goes to paying the national debt...what do you think will happen if you take that money away? The US can't just stop paying its national debt because it left the money in the hands of the citizens. You'd just end up paying the same amount some other way...