2006-11-21 05:42:23 · 3 answers · asked by winnie 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
The Constitution restricted the ablility of the Feds to tax and specifically forbids direct taxes like income tax, social security taxes and other payroll deductions. It was changed by Constitutional amendment. The promise was the payroll tax would never be more than 1% and would only apply to the very rich and would go away as soon as the cost of the Spanish American war was paid off.
I guess they changed their minds.
2006-11-21 05:51:26 · answer #1 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
using fact with out taxes, the government could desire to not function. between the super flaws of the Articles of Confederation grew to become into that the government could desire to not levy taxes and subsequently had to place self belief in states to donate money to the government. i'm specific you will discover the blunders in THAT plan. in the form, they sought to dazzling this mistake (extremely extremely wonderful) and so gave the government/congress capacity to levy taxes.
2016-12-29 07:26:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Constitutional amendment made income taxes legal Probably seventheen or eighteen around their somewhere
2006-11-21 05:48:50 · answer #3 · answered by rallman@sbcglobal.net 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋