Again, a direct tax is something that hits everyone. It must be apportioned.

Calling an excise on a particular, voluntary, and very limited behavior a direct tax ***is specious.***

That is simple logic, and the Framers knew the difference between an apportioned direct tax on everyone living within a physically-defined state, and an excise on the performance of a public office (which is voluntary, and only applies to perhaps 3-5% of the population).

If there was such a thing as a "tax on private earnings" in this country that was enforced as a direct tax, you would simply get a bill in the mail at the beginning of the year. This would be -massively- illegal, and would be immediately struck down.

We don't have that.

No such thing exists, although the moronic "flat tax" idiots are trying their best to get it pushed through. Ahhh what irony that would be, bringing about that which they were complaining about in the first place.

The current "tax on federal income" is perfectly lawful, and was originally put into place to ensure those that had cushy government jobs paid a portion of their wages back to their employer to help pay for their administration.

The "16th bylaw" of the corporate charter known as "the Constitution of the United States of America, Inc." is also perfectly legal and lawful. It keeps the weasels in office from hiding wealth from taxation. It was a clarification of the 1863 Revenue Act, and created no new powers of taxation. It certainly did not extend the authority of the IRS to include taxing of those that were not eligible to be taxpayers.

The issue is, as I have tried to make clear, is that the vast majority of Americans allowed their erstwhile employees to "redefine" them into a second or third class status known as "U.S. Citizen" or "citizen of the United States." These are "foreign" statuses with respect to our birthright. It is the same thing as if you were born a Frenchman, and a pencil-pusher got your mother to sign a document declaring you a Turk.

That's the part that is not only illegal and unlawful, but involves capital-level crimes. Human traficking, personation, kidnapping.

Again, this matter requires focusing on the -actual- problem, which is out of control employees that have been unchecked in the rapacious fraud for 160 years. Not being distracted.