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	<title>Comments on: US Companies Pay the Highest Taxes in the World</title>
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		<title>By: B. Johnson</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2009/03/us-companies-pay-the-highest-taxes-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-467</link>
		<dc:creator>B. Johnson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>High US taxes due to federal and state taxation are a consequence of the combination of US citizens not knowing their Constitution and its history and a corrupt federal government.  More specifically...

Noting that the Founders made the federal Constitution to limit (cripple) the powers of the federal government, the 10th Amendment reserving the lion&#039;s share of government power to serve the people to the states, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.

&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.&quot; --Chief Justice Marshall, &lt;a href=&quot;http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;

So consider that the stimulus package can be thought of as the federal government returning money to the states that it stole from the states in the first place.

The bottom line is that the 16th Amendment needs to be repealed.  This is the amendment that gives the feds the power to tax the people directly.  The problem with that amendment is that it makes it too easy for the corrupt federal government to lay constitutionally unauthorized taxes, in my opinion.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>High US taxes due to federal and state taxation are a consequence of the combination of US citizens not knowing their Constitution and its history and a corrupt federal government.  More specifically&#8230;</p>
<p>Noting that the Founders made the federal Constitution to limit (cripple) the powers of the federal government, the 10th Amendment reserving the lion&#8217;s share of government power to serve the people to the states, Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent which appropriately limits the power of the feds to lay taxes.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.&#8221; &#8211;Chief Justice Marshall, <a href="http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html" rel="nofollow">GIBBONS V. OGDEN (1824)</a></p></blockquote>
<p>So consider that the stimulus package can be thought of as the federal government returning money to the states that it stole from the states in the first place.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that the 16th Amendment needs to be repealed.  This is the amendment that gives the feds the power to tax the people directly.  The problem with that amendment is that it makes it too easy for the corrupt federal government to lay constitutionally unauthorized taxes, in my opinion.</p>
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		<title>By: Mbaiady</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2009/03/us-companies-pay-the-highest-taxes-in-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-465</link>
		<dc:creator>Mbaiady</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chris,

Brilliant as usual.  This is a good analysis which makes your article a documentary not a political one.  Keep writing may be one day you’ll be able to wake us up.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chris,</p>
<p>Brilliant as usual.  This is a good analysis which makes your article a documentary not a political one.  Keep writing may be one day you’ll be able to wake us up.</p>
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