Thread: The Ted Cruz’s Establishment friendly tax plan

Originally Posted by johnwk

Judy

Just for the record and to confirm the use of the direct taxing power, here is a link to the direct tax of 1798 and the amounts to be paid by each of the States.

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=001/llsl001.db&recNum=720

JWK

That was in 1798, before our country was formed with our existing Constitution. Our first Congress was in 1789. Our Constitution wasn't ratified until 1791.