Journal eglamkowski's Journal: About the Fair Tax... 2
Read Section 905: IN GENERAL- All persons, in whatever capacity acting (including lessees or mortgagors or real or personal property, fiduciaries, employers, and all officers and employees of the United States) having control, receipt, custody, disposal, or payment of any income to the extent such income constitutes gross income from sources within the United States of any nonresident alien individual, foreign partnership, or foreign corporation shall deduct and withhold from that income a tax equal to 23 percent thereof.
They biggest selling point of the Fair Tax by its proponents is that it abolishes the income tax. Here we see, in the language of H.R. 25 (the actual bill itself, not anything from The Book) that the income tax would indeed be retained in at least some cases.
That also means the promise of the Fair Tax advocates to repeal the 16th amendment is an empty promise, if not an outright lie.
Yes, I know it's "only" non-resident aliens that would be encumbered with this income tax. For now. Just give it five years...
But that's a pretty slick attempt to pull a fast one on us. Nice one Boortz!
16th Amendment (Score:2)
I could be wrong though.
Re:16th Amendment (Score:1)
In section 9 it says: No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
The Supreme Court had long held that an income tax violates this clause, and thus is unconstitutional. That is why we "needed" the 16th amendment in the first place.
The clause does not talk about WHO the tax can and cannot be levied against, but only that any tax