Comments on: The Power to Tax Is the Power http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/ Ideas on Liberty Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:34:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Fredric Williams http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-20138 Fredric Williams Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:40:09 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13996#comment-20138 Mike Wetzel: The best thing about being disillusioned is that our opportunity for seeing reality is greatly enhanced. As for what Congress may do, the general answer regarding the power of those in authority was given by Joseph Heller in (1961) -- about the time I first began reading -- ""Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing." Mike Wetzel: The best thing about being disillusioned is that our opportunity for seeing reality is greatly enhanced.

As for what Congress may do, the general answer regarding the power of those in authority was given by Joseph Heller in (1961) — about the time I first began reading — “”Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can’t stop them from doing.”

]]> By: Mike Wetzel http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-20073 Mike Wetzel Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:17:16 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13996#comment-20073 This post is the most depressing reading I have done in some time. Lacking a majority of liberty lovers in the Congress and on the Supreme Court individual citizens are not much more than slaves of the statists. Serfs. Sheep to be regularly shorn and occasionally eaten. The US is not really the land of the free. This post is the most depressing reading I have done in some time. Lacking a majority of liberty lovers in the Congress and on the Supreme Court individual citizens are not much more than slaves of the statists. Serfs. Sheep to be regularly shorn and occasionally eaten. The US is not really the land of the free.

]]> By: Sheldon Richman http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-20024 Sheldon Richman Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:19:41 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13996#comment-20024 Quite right, Cris. The Antifederalists were especially anxious about the the vagueness of that clause. Quite right, Cris. The Antifederalists were especially anxious about the the vagueness of that clause.

]]> By: christopher lingle http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-20019 christopher lingle Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:14:17 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13996#comment-20019 Besides "Commerce Clause" (Article 1, Section 8.3), there is also Article 1, Section 8.18 (aka, the "Necessary and Proper Clause") that might allow it to pass the Constitutional "smell test"...after Kelo, the Supremes are clearly odor-challenged! Besides “Commerce Clause” (Article 1, Section 8.3), there is also Article 1, Section 8.18 (aka, the “Necessary and Proper Clause”) that might allow it to pass the Constitutional “smell test”…after Kelo, the Supremes are clearly odor-challenged!

]]> By: The Power to Tax is the Power | Anything Peaceful http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-19415 The Power to Tax is the Power | Anything Peaceful Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:35:41 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13996#comment-19415 [...] Read TGIF here. [...] [...] Read TGIF here. [...]

]]> By: Sheldon Richman http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-19412 Sheldon Richman Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:26:48 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13996#comment-19412 Dr. J, Hamilton and Madison went to Philadelphia believing there was too little, not too much, government. What they produced elicited howls from the Antifederalists, who saw a plan of government that threatened the people and their liberties. History seems to have proved them right. Dr. J, Hamilton and Madison went to Philadelphia believing there was too little, not too much, government. What they produced elicited howls from the Antifederalists, who saw a plan of government that threatened the people and their liberties. History seems to have proved them right.

]]> By: Dr.J http://www.thefreemanonline.org/columns/tgif/power-to-tax/comment-page-1/#comment-19407 Dr.J Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:57:55 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=13996#comment-19407 How ever some interpret the Constitution, its primary existence is to protect the people from government and not the other way around. As it now, the government has given itself unlimited powers with the help of the Supreme Court. How ever some interpret the Constitution, its primary existence is to protect the people from government and not the other way around. As it now, the government has given itself unlimited powers with the help of the Supreme Court.

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