Reply To: No Taxation with Representation

Yes, there couldn’t be a federal income tax before the 16th amendment, because it had to be equally apportioned among the states, or by census results.

The sixteenth amendment reads:

“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.”

They really should have put a percentage cap in there, for blazes sakes.