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OH JOY!

May 29, 2007

Reader Joy responds to our post on Congressman Ron Paul:

It's obvious to me that you've neither read the Supreme Court decisions regarding the income tax, nor any of the research around the Sixteenth Amendment.

Brushaber, et al have consistently ruled that the Sixteenth Amendment GAVE NO NEW TAXING POWERS to the federal government, and that the income tax is an EXCISE, and not a direct tax. In fact, the USSC has consistently ruled that our labor is our right, and rights cannot be taxed.

Go do your homework before you call other people charlatans, but be sure to do it with an open mind, as others of us did, others who have been stunned to leave how they've been bilked and robbed and allowed our servant the government to become our master.

This is a government, supposedly, where its just powers come from the people. Ask yourself one thing, sir. If you don't have the right and authority to do something, can you give that authority to the government? Now ask it again. And again. And again.

I tried asking myself that question over and over, like the lady said, and I kept getting the answer "Say what?" "Say what?" and finally "Stop talking to yourself and do some work."

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