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How did this happen?
How does something the Constitution DOESN'T say allow the government to take money from your paycheck?
What role did the U.S. Supreme Court play in this?
Why It Matters
Even the Supreme Court must follow the Constitution
The Supreme Court's modern tax doctrine ignores the Constitution's actual words. What happens when we go back and read those words ourselves?
In 1796, the United States Supreme Court reinterpreted the original Constitution by importing three judicial assumptions that are not supported by the actual text. More than a century later, these mistaken assumptions led to adoption of the 16th Amendment, which the Court says authorizes Congress to lay and collect general taxes on incomes without apportionment - but the actual text of the Amendment tells a different story.
Supreme Court vs. CONSTITUTION traces modern Supreme Court doctrine to its starting point, examines the unsupported assumptions it is based on, and places the constitutional language and founding-era drafting evidence directly before you so you can
decide for yourself.
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What the Constitution REALLY Says About Taxes (Start Here!)
How Does the Supreme Court Classify Taxes?
The Evidence
The Constitution
The Constitution is your tool to hold your government in check. Do not farm this responsibility out to anyone else.
Research
Historical Research
Access primary source documents and founding-era evidence that uncover the evolution of constitutional tax interpretation since 1789.
