16th Amendment Does Not Authorize A Tax On Wages

The Life and Liberty Minute

The Life and Liberty Minute features Bryan Fischer, the host of “Focal Point” on American Family Radio. It’s a laser-like 60 second focus on an issue of the day, using the Word of God and the Constitution to analyze and explain.

16th Amendment does not authorize a tax on wages

Transcript:

Bryan Fischer here with today’s Life and Liberty Minute. You ever wonder how we were talked into voting for the 16th Amendment, which created the income tax? Most Americans are unaware that the Constitution does not give the government any authority whatsoever to collect taxes on wages and salaries. When the 16th Amendment was presented to the American people, we were told that the term “income” referred only to dividend income and corporate profits - in other words, to all income except wages and salaries. Since the kind of income the 16th Amendment goes after is income that only rich people got, they fooled us into voting for it because it would soak the rich. That’s what income meant when they wanted us to vote for it. Then they changed the meaning of “income” to include wages and salaries. So how’d that whole soak the rich thing work out?