Unconstitutional income tax

Keeping Them Honest by digby Bruce Webb discusses HR3200 and explains why it works and why it's so superior to the Baucus bill even beyond the Public Option. And he homes in on one particular provision: But here is the biggee, the single provision that guts the insurance companies current predatory model, the one you can bet they are most eager to kill. It is deliberately written to be innocuous but does more to control costs and insurance pool gaming than any other. Sec 116 ENSURING VA

Despite all the dysfunctional attributes of the U.S. healthcare and health insurance industries, we do provide some people with the world’s best medical care as a result of cutting-edge technology and procedures provided by the world’s most talented physicians at some of our top institutions. People with real life-threatening diseases come from around the world to many American medical centers to get care not available anywhere else. Some Americans also shop and travel internationally for eSpot had a little innocent fun the other day with Pat Anderson’s manifesto that school vouchers for private and parochial schools were too constitutional in Spot’s post Pat Anderson’s magical thinking. Craig Westover, one of Anderson’s vassals at the Minnesota Free Market Institute, and who undoubtedly provided the intellectual spark to set her little trash fire ablaze, tacked up a long comment to the post, claiming among other things that it was snarky. Spot is glad that you told

Special-interest groups eager to see growth in federal spending lusted after the resurrection of the income tax and briefly had one in 1894 when one was enacted into law. But it was declared unconstitutional in 1895 by the Supreme Court ...The Republican 2012 contenders are keeping their powder dry — sort of. The public doesn’t seem anxious to endure another presidential campaign stretching over multiple years. And we learned that spending millions and jumping out to a lead in polls a year or more before the first primary vote is no guarantee of sThe only exception to the constitutional prohibition against unapportioned direct taxes is for the federal income tax, which was authorized by the 16th Amendment — but the direct tax on the uninsured is not an income tax. ...allowed American workers to keep what they earned , and encouraged a cooperation between both labor and capital. The main tenet of this form of economics was the Christian idea that harmony ...

Through the nation's history, the federal government has imposed its will in various ways, of course, whether through military drafts, the advent of the federal income tax or the requirement that working people contribute part of their ...Update : Thanks Lynn for this highly important and urgent article, I did included a link to the source and wrote a small introduction as well as that I categorized it under “Leading up to a Reichstag Event” Larry Keller is connected to Alabama-based civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center. The article has to be taken in the context of setting the stage by demonizing Patriots The SLPC is behind the Hatewatch site that dedicates itself to smear campaigns directed against all those who s

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 By Fred Lucas, Staff Writer / CNS NEWS.COM Arizona state flag – Voters in Arizona will decide next year whether residents will be subject to mandates in the pending health care reform that President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are promoting.At least five other states – Indiana, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wyoming – have considered proposals to take pre-emptive action against the pending federal mandates, but thoseThis is a curious spot for, well, Spot. But Seifert’s right about something pretty important as a matter of Minnesota constitutional law. The former House Minority Leader thinks that a system of publically-funded vouchers to to pay private and sectarian school tuition in the state is unconstitutional. He’s right.Seifert is running for the GOP nomination in the governor’s race in 2010. Seeing an opportunity on this issue, some of Seifert’s ankle-biting competition have tried to create a wedge iss

-By Warner Todd Huston Who said that government ever made any logical sense? The State of Michigan has lighted upon a brilliant plan. It has been suggested that the state tax doctors so that it can pay doctors more via its Medicaid expenditures. Yes, the Wolverine State wants to tax doctors so it can pay doctors better. No logic need apply. This sounds like to sort of scam that normal people would get arrested for! And talk about an unfair tax. Doctors already pay personal income tax anS. 43B was inserted by the Finance Act, 2001 wef 1.4.2002 to provide that any sum payable by the assessee as an employer in lieu of any leave at the cred.I was delighted to see Rachel Maddow on Thursday night jump into coverage of ACORN --- finally --- by highlighting so much of what we've been reporting here, sometimes completely alone, for years ! She details the facts about the GOP's long-waged phony war against the right's "most reliable trumped-up boogeyman" (using language akin to that in my recent article in the UK's Guardian on the recent rightwing hit job on ACORN and the Democrats' pathetic capitulation

Obama’s Competing Waterloos - brownpelicanla.com 09/25/2009 David Limbaugh, TownHall.com, Friday, September 25, 2009 Sen. Jim DeMint predicted that Obamacare would be President Barack Obama’s Waterloo. While that’s certainly a strong possibility, Obama has other Waterloos in the wings competing for the prize, such as his monstrous deficits and his disastrous foreign policy. The Heritage Foundation reports that Obama’s budget would produce $13 trillionMatt posted the following in a comment section of The Liberty Tree Lantern, regarding Nationalized Health Care, recently: Do you understand the difference between what he would have like to do and actually what the health plan has turned into? This is what he believed in 2003, and probably would still like. REallity though makes it so we cant viably get rid of the insurance companies, so we Keep them and try and fix the system. Arguments that we would not try and save babies or allow people tYou just can’t take the nut out of wingnut. Reports come to Spot that Pat Anderson, in an apparent attempt to get some traction against the prohibitive front runner for the GOP nod for governor, Lonely Boy Marty Seifert, says, “Why yes, we can have school vouchers in Minnesota. We can! We can!” She goes on to say that David Hann, another GOP aspirant to Tpaw’s porcelain throne, has been working so hard on vouchers that they just have to be possible.We’re in “Obama was born in Kenya” or

ACORN has long been one of Karl Rove's targets. In recent days, the Washington Post, the New York Times and other major news outlets have recounted the “troubled” history of the poor people’s advocacy group ACORN, but left out the five-year anti-ACORN campaign led by White House adviser Karl Rove and other Republican operatives. Dropped down the memory hole is the fact that ACORN was at the center of the so-called “prosecutor-gate” scandal, when the Bush administration pressured U.S. Attorn-By Warner Todd Huston Once again, welcome to fascism Friday. We’ve given story one about Canadian fascism, and now the first one from the U.S.A. And like the one that will follow, this one is from Michigan, the Wolverine State. This time we see Michigan authorities creating fatuous taxes. . Who said that government ever made any logical sense? The State of Michigan has lighted upon a brilliant plan. It has been suggested that the state tax doctors so that it can pay doctors more via it

ACORN is now suing the whistleblowers who allegedly filmed it promoting illegal sexual activities for $2 million! And not just them , but also the conservative web site that made the video public! ACORN seeks an injunction to silence them — a classic example of an unconstitutional prior restraint . That’s a flagrant violation of the First Amendment, but the lawsuit was filed in state court in Baltimore, where the judges are very liberal, so who knows if ACORN’s lawsuit will be dismisWill Bunch: The Real Reason They Want ACORN to Fail - huffingtonpost.com 09/25/2009 There’s been a lot of hoopla about secret hidden-camera videos of low-level employees of the anti-poverty group ACORN lately — some of them quite embarrassing. I haven’t seen any video yet from ” real reporters ” James O’Keefe or Hannah Giles of an ACORN employee who works in the agency’s Charlotte, N.C., office by the name of Hector Vaca. And don’t hold your breath waiting for Vaca to appear on the Fox NeMyron Magnet / CityHow the Lees of Stratford Hall made and unmade an empire Christopher Cunningham/Courtesy of Stratford HallA “swagger” house, Stratford Hall is proud almost to insolence.Halfway along the flat, damp Northern Neck of Virginia, which stretches down to Chesapeake Bay between the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, stands one of America’s most extraordinary houses, Stratford Hall. With its two rooftop triumphal arches vauntingly piercing the sky, Stratford would be remarkable for its

Well, not really a surprise. This what liberals always do. They get caught doing naughty things and then they sue those that expose them. ACORN has now filed suit against Brietbart’s BigGovernment.com, O’Keefe and his partner Giles because Maryland law requires two party consent for audio recordings of conversations. The short explanation for such a law is that Maryland wants to protect people too stupid to watch what they do when interacting with other people and who might discuss illegal acts.From a tax perspective, it makes sense to maintain one's primary residence in Florida, which has no state income tax vs., many Midwestern and Northeastern states which do have state income taxes. Where the issue comes in is whether ...Caught between an Acorn and a Hard Place - politicalirony.com 09/24/2009 Congress was falling all over themselves to pass a bill punishing ACORN . In fact, they refer to the bill as the “Defund ACORN Act”. The bill passed both the House and Senate. There is only one problem with that — bills that punish a single person or organization without a trial are unconstitutional. Such a law is called a “bill of attainder” and is specifically barred by the constitution

Some of these arguments sound similar to claims that the Federal income tax is unconstitutional. Good luck making that case before the judge. Of course our legal and political system once held that some men were chattel, ...Well, not really a surprise. This what liberals always do. They get caught doing naughty things and then they sue those that expose them. ACORN has now filed suit against Brietbart’s BigGovernment.com, O’Keefe and his partner Giles because Maryland law requires two party consent for audio recordings of conversations. The short explanation for such a law is that Maryland wants to protect people too stupid to watch what they do when interacting with other people and who might discuss illegal acts.

It is obviously constitutional for the government to modify the tax code to add a income tax surcharge and a corresponding tax credit if you have health insurance. Regulation of health costs to some degree is already being done through ...The decision by the Government to backdate the income levies introduced in April's supplementary budget on income earned by the self-employed between January and April 2009 is unconstitutional. ... “The point is that the Government cannot change tax rates for a year half-way through that year and, therefore, people should not be out of pocket due to the introduction of this unconstitutional legislation.” More broadly, Brady also questioned the constitutionality of the ...