[Authorizing Income Taxes]
-Proposed by Congress on July 2, 1909; Declared ratified on February 25, 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."
This amendment gives the federal government the power to tax individuals' incomes. The taxes are not based on a flat rate but can change according to the amount of income earned. Basically, the richer you are, the more taxes you are going to pay.
I don't think that Republicans and Democrats will ever really agree on anything...let alone an issue as big as taxes.
Whether or not people believe this amendment was legally ratified, it is still an important part to the Constitution. And even though people are always complaining about paying taxes, there would be a whole lot more complaints without them. Where else would the government get the money to pay for anything for the public good?
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