Government - July 2006

House GOP will vote on raising minimum wage all because of the oil price increase. The government will not find a better way to lower the price of oil, and the corporations are too greedy.

2006-07-28 16:27:44 · 13 answers · asked by Zu_t 2

2006-07-28 16:26:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Chimps are smart.

People like Chimps.

Chimps even have social skills.

Chimps can be trained.

So why do people on this site keep insulting Chimps? What did Chimps ever do to any of you who call Bush a Chimp?

2006-07-28 16:10:57 · 37 answers · asked by Professor Chaos386 4

2006-07-28 15:11:04 · 27 answers · asked by superdave 1

How is it decided how many regions and districts there should be?

2006-07-28 15:06:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

Thoughs should be in relation to terrorism,the islamic world, and the French-US relations at this time.

2006-07-28 14:59:46 · 13 answers · asked by fun_easyintelligent 2

2006-07-28 14:54:27 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

The hate is spreading , and has risen it's head in Seattle. WA, USA. 9 people were shot today in a Jewish Temple. Insignifigant when compared with Lebanon & Israel. I see it as an omen of more bloodshed to come.
We see the anger and hatred here in Answers. How can it be possible to even hate your own countryman when you disagree. Argue, yes, hate Not! Why do so many persist in this viciousness when our world is on the brink of another great war?

2006-07-28 14:45:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Given the state of technology, wouldn't it be better to put the really pressing questions to the public and let them vote directly on them, cutting out the middle men and eliminating the graft and waste? Of course we couldn't let people with chads or brothers in the white house vote...too simple?

2006-07-28 14:23:33 · 11 answers · asked by Michael S 4

2006-07-28 14:23:26 · 4 answers · asked by tough as hell 3

if you hate bush but i hate bush if you like him but i like bush

2006-07-28 14:13:57 · 32 answers · asked by -Conspiracy-Act- 1

they retire with full pay , don't pay social security and they have health benefits.

2006-07-28 13:57:46 · 10 answers · asked by slingblade 2

INCOME TAX

History and Purpose of the Amendment

The ratification of this Amendment was the direct consequence of the Court's decision in 1895 in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 1 whereby the attempt of Congress the previous year to tax incomes uniformly throughout the United States 2 was held by a divided court to be unconstitutional. A tax on incomes derived from property, 3 the Court declared, was a ''direct tax'' which Congress under the terms of Article I, Sec. 2, and Sec. 9, could impose only by the rule of apportionment according to population, although scarcely fifteen years prior the Justices had unanimously sustained 4 the collection of a similar tax during the Civil War, 5 the only other occasion preceding the Sixteenth Amendment in which Congress had ventured to utilize this method of raising revenue. 6


During the interim between the Pollock decision in 1895 and the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, the Court gave evidence of a greater awareness of the dangerous consequences to national solvency which that holding threatened, and partially circumvented the threat, either by taking refuge in redefinitions of ''direct tax'' or, and more especially, by emphasizing, virtually to the exclusion of the former, the history of excise taxation. Thus, in a series of cases, notably Nicol v. Ames, 7 Knowlton v. Moore, 8 and Patton v. Brady, 9 the Court held the following taxes to have been levied merely upon one of the ''incidents of ownership'' and hence to be excises: a tax which involved affixing revenue stamps to memoranda evidencing the sale of merchandise on commodity exchanges, an inheritance tax, and a war revenue tax upon tobacco on which the hitherto imposed excise tax had already been paid and which was held by the manufacturer for resale.


Because of such endeavors the Court thus found it possible to sustain a corporate income tax as an excise ''measured by income'' on the privilege of doing business in corporate form. 10 The adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, however, put an end to speculation whether the Court, unaided by constitutional amendment, would persist along these lines of construction until it had reversed its holding in the Pollock case. Indeed, in its initial appraisal 11 of the Amendment it classified income taxes as being inherently ''indirect.'' ''[T]he command of the amendment that all income taxes shall not be subject to apportionment by a consideration of the sources from which the taxed income may be derived, forbids the application to such taxes of the rule applied in the Pollock case by which alone such taxes were removed from the great class of excises, duties, and imports subject to the rule of uniformity and were placed under the other or direct class.'' 12 ''[T]he Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged.'' 13

Footnotes

2006-07-28 13:47:45 · 6 answers · asked by littleoldlady 1

The U.N. has exceptional world powers. It does over step them at time. Do you think the whole global community law enforcing U.N. is the first step or one of the final steps into one world government and do you agree with one world government?

2006-07-28 13:41:53 · 15 answers · asked by Jim P 2

LA LE LU LEI LO

2006-07-28 13:31:17 · 11 answers · asked by ssj_jessy 1

Why are some folks in Congress arguing that it only helps the mega-rich?

2006-07-28 13:27:26 · 14 answers · asked by my brain hurts 5

And in doing so, can we still retain the capitalistic and entreprenurial spirit that sets this country apart from every other?

2006-07-28 13:20:06 · 26 answers · asked by my brain hurts 5

What on earth is happening to the USA?

Chevron made a 4.35 BILLION DOLLAR PROFIT, just in the quarter. What can we do as American Citizens to stop the price gouging of the gasline? I am really tried our government saying it is because of the Middle East........HELLO....The Middle East has nothing to do with Chevron making such a profit. What do you think and what can we do, if anything?

2006-07-28 13:15:28 · 15 answers · asked by whenwhalesfly 5

Thought I would get your view of it. Question was brought up at a table of friends playing what if.
What if the C I A new 9/11 was going to happen but did nothing because they needed a reason that would so upset our nation that we would over look obvious logic and allow them to go into Iraq? And why would they need to be in there so badly? Or did they keep silent because they knew 9/11 would bring our country in behind them and they would recieve alot of money? I know some of that is far fetched but I do know that bio containers(empty) with american logos where found over there. So what do you think

2006-07-28 13:09:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-07-28 13:08:37 · 14 answers · asked by dt 5

2006-07-28 13:07:37 · 10 answers · asked by dt 5

2006-07-28 12:49:48 · 18 answers · asked by dt 5

They tried to impeach Bill for doing something almost every married man has done and not one person died from what he did.

2006-07-28 12:22:30 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

And why isn't he?

2006-07-28 12:18:54 · 30 answers · asked by ashez 4

Which American presidents who had their term in the 20th century supported segregation of African Americans?

2006-07-28 12:15:42 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

My first question is whether or not Hezbollah instigated Israels response. Did they make the first move? That is what I am hearing and just wondered if anybody knew for sure because I do not like hearsay. The second question is if they were truly attacked by these terrorists wouldn't we all be hypocritical if we disagreed with there tactics? What did the U.S. do after we were attacked. We identified the group responsible and invaded Afghanistan, just like Israel is invading Lebanon. I for one did not disagree with the Afghanistan war as we were invading and defeating terrorists, the ones who attacked us. This is what Israel is doing. They were attacked and now they are invading the area that housed the attackers. Does anybody agree with me and feel Israel is in the right and we as a people shouldn't judge them as we did the same thing? Or am I misinformed and I do not know the whole story? Please help me and thanks in advance for the answers.

2006-07-28 12:01:54 · 10 answers · asked by ? 1

While on his trip the USA as the World burns, He see fit to meet a media mogul. WHY??

2006-07-28 11:54:28 · 9 answers · asked by True B 3

U.S. over 200 yrs old, Is true that nation in Africa and South America are younger are poorer. Or is age just a number/ Does the older a country get the more wealthy it is?
Ex: China,U.S.(older)
Congo, Nigeria, E. Timor(younger countries)

2006-07-28 11:52:37 · 3 answers · asked by tiger_9885 3

2006-07-28 11:42:38 · 4 answers · asked by JAMAL Q 1

What makes states like New York and California always vote Democrat? And most states in the south and the midwest vote Republican? What is behind this strange phenomena?

2006-07-28 11:38:39 · 11 answers · asked by Mr. Curious 2