On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 22:29:17 GMT, "Michael McKelvy"
wrote:


"jak163" wrote in message
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On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:28:36 -0800, "John Williams"
wrote:

I'm a moderate with a libertarian bent but I'll take a stab at this.

I took a spin over to some of the overtly political Usenet groups. Amid
the usual namecalling, baseless generalizing, chest-thumping, and
exultations of stupidity, I educed a common theme among the retrograde
claque. They all think taxes are unjust, unnecessary, immoral, etc.
Similar to the braying we see on RAO from certain people whom I don't
need to name because we all know who you are.

What you are talking about is weath redistribution. The US constitution
does not authorize wealth redistribution.

16th Amendment?

Which is unconstitutional. The only reason it wasn't ruled so was because
the Court was afraid of FDR.

Constitutional amendments aren't subject to judicial review. They
can't be unconstitutional.