 It was noted, in the article you linked to: Quote: |
The income tax completely destroys the immunity of property. It flatly declares a prior right of the State to all things produced. What it permits the individual to retain is a concession to expediency, not by any means a right; for the State retains the liberty to set rates and to fix exemptions from year to year, as its convenience dictates. Thus, the sacred right of private property is violated, and the fact that it is done pro forma makes the violation no less real than when it is done arbitrarily by an autocrat. The blanks we so dutifully fill out simply accentuate our degradation to subject status. …Thus, the original federation — the Union — has been superseded in fact by a single, centralized power, and the citizen of the commonwealth has become a subject of that power. The income tax alone made this possible, inevitable.
| The article has reference to the sixteenth amendment of the federal Constitution. There is nothing in that amendment that reduces the rights encapsuled in Article Four of the Bill of Rights. If you actually believe that you are denigrated "to subject status", then you are. | 
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