The 16th granted no new powers, and the idea that it removed pre-existing restrictions, which thusly grants new powers is asinine. That is legislation from the bench and unconstitutional.
I pay my taxes, because tyrants with guns and prisons tell me to, and because my God says, “Render to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.” Not because the taxation is just and lawful, it clearly is not. This is not my fight. If Caesar tries to take what belongs to God, then I must obey God rather than men.
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