Taxation Under the Constitution

[davagd0284]

How exactly should our tax system operate under the US Constitution? I've been searching everywhere for information on this subject. If anyone is open to discussing how our tax system should operate under the constitution feel free to share your knowledge with me and the other members of the forum. Also, if anyone knows of any good books on the subject, please let me know! Thanks!

 

[Zippyjuan]

Article One- Section Eight of the US Constitution:
http://www.constitution.org/constit_.htm

Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

This lets them write the tax laws. The tax law bills are then subject to aproval as described in Article One Section Seven:

Section. 7. All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.

Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States;[2] If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House respectively. If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Section Nine:

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.



No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State

The Sixteenth Amendment:

Article. XVI.
[Proposed 1909; Questionably Ratified 1913]
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

 

[Danke]

How exactly should our tax system operate under the US Constitution? I've been searching everywhere for information on this subject. If anyone is open to discussing how our tax system should operate under the constitution feel free to share your knowledge with me and the other members of the forum. Also, if anyone knows of any good books on the subject, please let me know! Thanks!

Here is a book with the history and a lot of congressional records and debates dealing with the Income Tax.

http://www.constitutionalincome.com/

 

[sratiug]

How exactly should our tax system operate under the US Constitution? I've been searching everywhere for information on this subject. If anyone is open to discussing how our tax system should operate under the constitution feel free to share your knowledge with me and the other members of the forum. Also, if anyone knows of any good books on the subject, please let me know! Thanks!

Thomas Jefferson said that if you don't live on a border or on at a port you should never see a tax collector from the federal government.


Article I Section 8:

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Article I Section 9:

No capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

excise n a tax on the manufacture, sale, or consumption of goods within a country
duties are taxes on imports

We import over a trillion dollars a year in goods.

I don't know what all is federally taxed. Gasoline for sure. Alcohol? Cigarettes? The National Pork Board is federal law and charges a fee by the pig so they can advertise pork and I'm sure there's others like it. Social Security is separate from the income tax.

There are charges for things that are not considered a tax.

We do need a list of the assorted federal taxes.