(05-27-2018, 06:09 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(05-27-2018, 04:52 PM)jj82284 Wrote: So limited government is really just playing red rover red rover as to what social engineering can be passed off as a tax?  Ok....

When have these schemes worked exactly?   How s California doing?

No JJ. In theory a government with a different Constitution may have strict limits on the types of taxes it can impose. You can see this with our state government they specifically cannot have an income tax and they can only have certain types of property taxes. Our federal government has no such restrictions. It is limited in some ways but not that way.
By the way California has lots of restrictions on what can and cannot be taxed in their constitution.

The purpose of the taxing authority is to find the enumerated powers of the state, not to have a backdoor to circumvent the doctrine of limited government.  For instance, if the congress needed to raise a sum of money for a war effort, regulating interstate commerce etc. Then it would follow that its taxing authority was unilateral.  Conversely, any and all draconian economic intervention being rubber stamped because you call part of it a TAX is silly on its face.  If it were the case that the power of the state was universal due to its ability to tax then WHY WRITE A CONSTITUTION?

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