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Anniversary Friday, 15 February 2013 18:30  A Really Rotten
Anniversary  Written by   It was 100 years ago this month that
the 16th Amendment to the Constitution officially became the law
of the land. Since this is the one that authorized the federal
government to implement a graduated income tax in the United
States, you’ll understand why I say that February 3, 1913, was a
very bad day for liberty.  One of the many complaints against
King George in the Declaration of Independence was that “He has
erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.”
But the amount of colonists’ “substance” that was taken by
British authorities was the equivalent of a gnat’s nibble,
compared to what our rulers in Washington seize from us every
day. I think it’s safe to say that without a graduated income
tax — a key plank in The Communist Manifesto, by the way — there
is no way that we would have the gar