Has Jenny Beth Martin become a Tea Party Patriot for profit?

[johnwk]

SEE: Tea party PACs reap money for midterms, but spend little on candidates

Martin, the super PAC’s chairwoman, oversees all its expenditures, according to Broughton, meaning she sets her own $15,000 monthly fee for strategic consulting — payments that have totaled $120,000 since July.

She also draws a salary as president of the Tea Party Patriots’ nonprofit arm — getting more than $272,000 in the 2012 fiscal year, according to the group’s most recent tax filing.

Her twin salaries put her on track to make more than $450,000 this year, a dramatic change in lifestyle for the tea party activist, who had filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and then cleaned homes for a period of time to bring in extra money.

I guess Jenny is too busy collecting tea party contributions and filling her own pockets to know or actually care about what H.J. RES. 104, which she is promoting, would actually accomplish. The only thing which seems important to her and her hubby about H.J.RES. 104 is that repealing the 16th Amendment sounds good and can rake in the cash, even if it wouldn’t actually end taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other incomes.

JWK


They are not “liberals”. They are conniving Marxist parasites who use the cloak of government force to steal the wealth which wage earners, business and investors have worked to create

 

[DriftingSand]

It's why I contribute directly to candidates rather than middlemen (or middlewomen). Money is power; power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

On the other hand, if she's helping the Conservative cause in a significant way (and I don't know if she is) then she deserves a fair salary.

 

[johnwk]

It's why I contribute directly to candidates rather than middlemen (or middlewomen). Money is power; power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.

On the other hand, if she's helping the Conservative cause in a significant way (and I don't know if she is) then she deserves a fair salary.

I agree with you! What raised a red flag with me about Jenny is her support for H.J.RES.104 which is a Washington Establishment cooked up scheme which would not withdraw Congress' power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other "incomes". But it does rake in the cash!


JWK



Are we really ok with 45 percent of our nation’s population who pay no taxes on incomes being allowed to vote for representatives who spend federal revenue which the remaining 55 percent of our nation’s hard working and productive population has contributed into our federal treasury via taxes on incomes when our Constitution requires “Representatives and direct taxes Shall be apportioned among the Several States”?

 

[johnwk]

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SEE:
Tea Party Patriots Defends Spending Practices: ‘It Costs Money To Operate An Organization Of This Magnitude’

”The Tea Party Patriots, in its statement Monday, said the money they spend on soliciting donations also has a political purpose.”

Yup, it sure does. And one of those political purposes is the promotion of H.J. RES. 104 which would not withdraw Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from profits, gains and other “incomes” as Tea Party Patriots’ Jenny Beth Martin suggests it would do. SEE: PATRIOT UPDATE for details.

The irrefutable fact is, if the 16th Amendment were repealed as worded in H.J.RES. 104, Congress would still have power to lay and collect taxes calculated from “incomes” which is a power exercised by Congress long before the 16th Amendment was adopted, and was upheld by the Supreme Court as being Constitutional!

In fact, the first so called “income tax” is found in An Act to provide increased Revenue from Imports, to pay interest on the Public Debt, and for other Purposes. The phrase “income tax” is found in the margin dealing with Section 49 of the Act. SECTION 49 of the Act reads as follows:

Sec. 49. And be it further enacted, That on and after the first day of January next, there shall be levied, collected, and paid upon the annual income of every person residing in the United States, whether such income is derived from any kind of property, or from any profession, trade, employment or vocation carried on in the United States or elsewhere, or from any other source whatever, if such annual income exceeds the sum of eight hundred dollars, a tax of three percentum on the amount of such excess over eight hundred dollars...

This income tax was later tested in the Supreme Court and was upheld as being constitutional in SPRINGER v. U S, 102 U.S. 586 (1880). Among other arguments, the argument that the tax was direct and required an apportionment did not carry.

Congress’ power to lay and collect taxes calculated from incomes was also exercised under the Corporate Excise Tax of 1909, before the 16th Amendment was adopted, and this tax was also upheld by the Supreme Court in FLINT v. STONE TRACY CO., 220 U.S. 107 (1911). So, repealing the 16th Amendment as worded in H.J.RES. 104, would not end taxes calculated from profits, gains, and other “incomes”, but it does seem to generate contributions!

If Jenny Beth Martin were sincere about ending this despotic tax, she would publically ask Representative Bridenstine to change the wording in H.J.RES. 104 as follows:

House/Senate Joint Resolution

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to repeal the sixteenth article of amendment and end taxes calculated from profits, gains, salaries and other “incomes”.

Section 1: The sixteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.

Section 2: Congress is henceforth forbidden to lay ``any`` tax or burden calculated from profits, gains, interest, salaries, wages, tips, inheritances or any other lawfully realized money.

Section 3: This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by three fourths of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission thereof to the States by the Congress.


JWK

Reaching across the aisle and bipartisanship is Washington Newspeak to subvert the Constitution and screw the American People.