2024 Property Tax Reform: The Choices Before Colorado Voters
- July 26, 2024
In light of the evidence, it is astounding that confusion over the Constitution’s categories of direct and indirect taxes still persists.
READ MORESome commentators have been building on the prevailing uncertainty to argue that wealth taxes are indirect and therefore need not be apportioned.
READ MOREA law imposing a federal wealth tax would be unconstitutional unless the projected revenue was apportioned among the states by population.
READ MORECongress could impose income taxes before the 16th amendment.
READ MOREThe fact that many of America’s law schools are one-sided political hothouses further encourages leftist passion at the expense of curiosity and care.
READ MOREArticle I, Section 10, Clause 3 (I-10-3) of the Constitution forbids states from imposing any “Duty of Tonnage” without the consent of Congress. During the Founding Era, tonnage was a levy imposed on the cargo capacity of ships entering or leaving harbors. As the Constitution’s words indicate, it was a species in a larger class
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