On May 8, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Steve Lamb wrote:
Matthias Julius wrote:To cite the U.S. Constitution (from http://www.usconstitution.net/const.html): ,---- | Section 8 - Powers of Congress | | The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, | Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common | Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, | Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; `----Thanks for that cite, goes to show another area the Feds are messing up. Uniform taxation... yeah, and what's this with the progressive tax scale? Notvery uniform to me.
[...snip...]You might want to read the 16th Amendment. (http:// www.usconstitution.net/const.html#Am16)..
,---- | Amendment XVI || 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.
`----...as well as the various court rulings and Congressional Research Service reports. You might find the analysis posted at http:// www.thepriceofliberty.org/04/04/16/greenslade.htm interesting.
FWIW, ''uniform'' doesn't mean ''flat''. It just means geographic uniformity for the rules of taxation--i.e. not favoring one state over another. If you're so inclined, you could try to argue _de facto_ non-uniformity--e.g. CT with a higher median income pays higher federal incomde taxes. Good luck on that one, though!