America: love it or leave it. At least, that's how I put it to the GOP faction of the House Ways and Means Committee on the bird app.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 1:
Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises...

In 1913 the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, overruling Pollock, and the Congress then levied an income tax on both corporate and individual incomes.

#taxes
#Constitution
#WaysMeansCommittee