Democrats vote to keep tax cheat Rangel in charge of Tax-Writing Committee  

The sad thing is that not only will people ignore their rep's support of this crook, the people of Harlem will continue to re-elect Rangel himself as they've been doing for decades because they're far to ignorant and dependent on the entitlements he promises them.

If they want a criminal to represent them, then they bring the name on themselves.

Is anyone aware that the 16th amendment was 'ratified' lol...the same year as the Federal Reserve Act? These two things took away our power and put it soundly in the hands of the government. I lol...cause there is some pretty amazing evidence that this Income Tax amendment was never 'legally' (by the Constitution) ratifed. And the evidence for the underhanded passing of the Federal Reserve Act...would make your skin crawl. Watch 'Freedom to Facism'.

I have seen most of the arguments against the income tax including that one state didn't ratify the same amendment as others (was it Ohio?). I also know that every court has dismissed all these arguments. What I do think is that there should be a movement from the people to repeal the tax, or to change it to some more equitable system.

Dang! I wish I'd saved the site I saw this info on. Bill Benson who lives in South Holland Illinois...and has a website called The Law That Never Was,,, spent about a year of his life and his own money going to all the states that were in the union..48 in all at that time. He looked at their records and found this:

The 4 states listed below are among the 38 states that Philander Knox claimed ratification from.

The Kentucky Senate voted upon the resolution, but rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed.
The Oklahoma Senate amended the language of the 16th Amendment to have a precisely opposite meaning.
The California legislative assembly never recorded any vote upon any proposal to adopt the amendment proposed by Congress.
The State of Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of State in Washington.
When his year long project was finished at the end of 1984, Bill had visited every state capitol and knew that not a single state had actually and legally ratified the proposal to amend the Constitution. 33 states engaged in the unauthorized activity of amending the language of the amendment proposed by congress, a power the states do not possess. Since 36 states were needed for ratification, the failure of 13 to ratify would be fatal to the amendment, and this occurs within the major (first three) defects tabulated in Defects in Ratification of the 16th Amendment. Even if we were to ignore defects of spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, we would still have only 2 states which successfully ratified.


http://www.thelawthatneverwas.com/new/home.asp

LOL...I obviously found it. Just forgot to edit my response opening...sorry.

And here I was, awestruck by your amazing memory.

I would like to think that this was all accurate information, but I wonder why then no one can successfully fight the income tax in court? I do remember now, reading that some language was changed in some amendments, and I don't remember what the legal response to that was.

Just think though, if they ruled the law unconstitutional or never passed in accordance with procedure so of no effect, they would have to apologize to Al Capone. I can't think of how many reparation lawsuits there would be against the IRS.

Seriously, I think the way forward is for amendment to the tax law in a legal way and if the people are in favor, repeal it. I don't think that will happen, the people would be too afraid of government grinding to a halt. A flat tax would be the most equitable and workable way. If government has to figure out which of the two people who do the same job in every department has to be fired, so be it.

Yes and if he were a crackhead he could be mayor of Washington DC.

Wow, I knew about everything you mentioned except him wanting to reinstate the draft. Frankly that's the kind of thing that could kill him in his district if anyone ever wanted to challenge him for his seat. The draft is easily evaded by well to do people, but the lower income folk which is who he largely represents, are easily drafted since they lack the money and resources to get out.

The issue with the rum distiller isn't going anywhere. The majority of his peers, including Obama, do the exact same thing. It's one of those things that people largely ignore until the person doing it has too much power and it's used to beat them in an election. Actual charges rarely, if ever, come out of it.

Good on you for being in touch with your rep. I think the biggest failing of citizens in our country is that most don't even know who their rep is, much less bother to contact them. Many people complain about their reps and senators without once calling or emailing them to say how they feel.