The constitution includes a rather confusing directive with regards to taxation:
Art. 1 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 defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States"
Art 1 Section 2: "Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers"
Art 1 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. "
A constitutional amendment, #16, was required to allow for income taxes to be levied in the U.S.
More info can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#_note-2
Please try to support your case with relevant evidence.
2007-01-11 05:18:26 · 5 answers · asked by Charlie W. 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ United States
I think founding father wouldn't have thought that what extent people would go to avoid taxes.
I hate paying taxes but someone would have to if we want better services.
2007-01-11 05:24:11 · answer #1 · answered by kunjaldp 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think that they would because the current tax system is not meant to punish. It even provides a refund to low income individuals who did not even pay any federal taxes. I don't think that any of us can look through the eyes of our founding fathers in order to accurately determine what they would think of the tax system today. I'm sure that they would have a different idea after looking at today's economy because they would not be able to phathom the world as it exists today.
When I view the situation, I think that they would have more of a problem with the way that the government frivously spends tax dollars than how they decide who or how we should pay.
2007-01-11 06:02:03 · answer #2 · answered by Smart1 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Last October there was a cd put out and a guy played an historical character being interviewed by someone in today's society...very enlightening...
Bottom line: We the people of the United States broke off from Britain because of unfair taxes and the Boston Tea Party made our point. Somewhere it got lost.
2007-01-11 05:30:15 · answer #3 · answered by Patches6 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Congress has the right to tax US citizens with rules that apply equally in all 50 states.
The requirement of citizens to file annual tax forms is described in the Internal Revenue Code, approved by Congress, section 6012.
The question you asked was whether the founding fathers would approve. No one here is qualified to speak for them, but the Internal Revenue Code is based on the authority they agreed to give to our federal system of government.
2007-01-11 05:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many of the taxes we pay today were supposed to be temporary. Like the phone tax in NJ. Once a tax is in place it rarely gets repealed.
No, I don't believe our Founding Fathers would approve of all the taxes we pay today.
Just my opinion, no facts to support it.
2007-01-11 05:25:49 · answer #5 · answered by martine_sf 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋