The 16th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified and adopted on February 3rd, 1913.
The Constitution spells out the procedure by which it may be amended and that procedure has never been violated. Thus you cannot bring up the original as an argument against any current amendment. The latest 'version' of our Constitution IS the Constitution.
To Crick: See this thread and this article:
. . . 17,000 court certified documents that prove beyond any doubt that the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was never ratified.
Fine. If you want to repeal the 16th Amendment, start gathering signatures.
To Crick: Did you forget that it was I who taught you about the amendment process:
To Crick: Your clever little combination of T.J. quotes was unnecessary. Of the many, many, things T.J. said he did recognize the need for a mechanism to amend the Constitution:
Let us go on perfecting the Constitution by adding, by way of amendment, those forms which time and trial show are still wanting.
Thomas Jefferson
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Whatever be the Constitution, great care must be taken to provide a mode of amendment when experience or change of circumstances shall have manifested that any part of it is unadapted to the good of the nation. In some of our States it requires a new authority from the whole people, acting by their representatives, chosen for this express purpose, and assembled in convention. This is found too difficult for remedying the imperfections which experience develops from time to time in an organization of the first impression. A greater facility of amendment is certainly requisite to maintain it in a course of action accommodated to the times and changes through which we are ever passing.
Thomas Jefferson
There is no way in hell Americans, or T.J., meant the Constitution should be amended to give parasites access to the public purse so they could fund a welfare state, yet that is exactly what Democrats did to the country without passing one constitutional amendment.
Amending the Constitution is the only say Americans have in the laws they live under. The fact is: Socialists know that they cannot implement their ideology by amending the Constitution; so they do it through the Courts, and with unconstitutional legislation. That has not been working out of late; so Taqiyya the Liar amends the Constitution unilaterally with EOs, bureaucratic regulations, or simply not enforcing laws he disagrees with. He goes so far as pervert his oath of office:
US Constitution, Article II,
Section 1
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Taqiyya faithfully executes the New World Order’s anti-America sovereignty agenda. When he is called out on it he says he is faithfully executing the office of president. The only way to cut through his doublespeak is to think 1984: “War is peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is strength.”
You must have forgotten this, too:
Parenthetically, the XVI and XVII Amendments were not ratified according to many. Regardless of the evidence this never went anywhere but it’s worth mentioning:
On Thursday, Jan. 18, Bill Benson of Illinois filed suit in the Oklahoma County District Court to secure a judicial determination that the second Oklahoma Legislature didn't ratify the Sixteenth Amendment as Congress proposed it in 1909 and as it appears in the U.S. Constitution today. At a meeting held subsequent to the Capitol rally, Oklahoma citizens charted a course to promote a resolution that will be presented for consideration of the current Oklahoma Legislature.
Benson will shortly file a parallel suit in California then a third in Kentucky or Tennessee. The theory is that if three of the 38 states that allegedly ratified the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913 or before confirm that legislatures of their respective states did not ratify the Sixteenth Amendment, the so-called income tax amendment will be left in the lurch. In 1984, Benson secured documents from capitols of the 48 states that participated in the ratification process. The documents prove that very few of the state legislatures that allegedly endorsed the Sixteenth Amendment between 1909 and 1913 actually approved it.
According to Devvy Kidd, spokesman for The Wallace Institute, initiatives relating to the Seventeenth Amendment will follow shortly on the heels of the Sixteenth Amendment initiative. Under the original Constitution, U.S. Senators were elected by state legislatures. The Seventeenth Amendment changed the process by switching the Senate to direct electoral process by the people, thereby nullifying state representation in Congress and opening the door to what Kidd described as a raft of treaties that in the last century compromised American sovereignty and solvency. Benson documented Seventeenth Amendment irregularities simultaneous with his Sixteenth Amendment research.
Finally, on the one hand Democrats invented a living Constitution while they scream “settled law” out of the other side of their hypocritical mouths. Example: Roe v. Wade is settled law after a mere 40 years, while more than 40,000 gun control laws say the Second Amendment is not settled law after more than two centuries. Hell, Democrats cannot repeal an amendment they don’t like let alone get one ratified.
Bottom line: Settled law is obviously not a living thing, yet it is not subject to repeal like laws or constitutional amendments if you believe Democrats.
Palaces & Packing Crates
And who would determine which weren't necessary to government, which bureaucracies were unnecessary? Let me guess: you?
To Crick: Necessary government is enumerated in the Constitution. If it is not there it is unconstitutional.
What huge income paid by taxpayers?
To Crick: Pay attention:
1. The movie industry is a component of the Democrat party’s media-education-entertainment complex.
2. Unlike television that is funded by tax deductible advertising dollars the movie industry has to be subsidized in order to survive. It is absurd to deny that big stars get their huge salaries from subsidies while everything else is paid for by subsidies. Ask yourself who in their right would invest in an industry that died a long time ago?
3. The customer base for movie theaters is the best kept secret in Hollywood. After years analyzing ticket sales, etc. I place the number at somewhere between 8 and 15 percent of the adult population.
4. Subsidies include keeping movie theaters open. New movies are produced in order to stock the shelves of movie theaters. It will not be long before movie theaters disappear entirely. A generation ot two at most. Even then, subsides will continue to pay for the other aspects of the entertainment leg of the complex.
There is a lot more on the topic, but you have enough to go on to do your own research. Your talking points should at least be well-informed so you sound half-ass intelligent.