I agree on the first two, but the "progressive" amendments of the early 20th century caused the 3d. Then FDR was 4th and LBJ was 5th
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Replying to @DenverGregg @1renist
If you think the amendments matter you're missing the point. FDR introduced a new structure that is totally beyond electoral politics and is still around The constitution doesn't get amended to reflect this because the Constitution (the document) isn't the constitution
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @1renist
the senate before direct election served as a check on federal power and the implementation of income tax and prohibition massively increased federal power. these were massive mistakes from which freedom never recovered FDR's soft coup couldn't have been done without them either.
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Replying to @DenverGregg @1renist
The senate before direction election wasn't supposed to be a check on federal power - it was supposed to be a body where co-sovereigns negotiated on equal terms - the Senate was dead from Lincoln's time Income tax is the same thing
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Income tax is just the fedgov taxing its subjects as it always has - it used to have the States as its subjects but those got eliminated in the Civil War Fiat money was an actual change by FDR that mattered - fedgov now owns everything that can be bought with dollars
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @1renist
income tax was a big change to the old system of tariffs and excise taxes because it made federal revenue both much more predictable and much larger. Longterm federal financial commitments require those factors
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Replying to @DenverGregg @1renist
Preceding the income tax the feds could tax imports and the states because those were in their agreed-upon sphere Post Civil War fedgov's agreed-upon sphere was that it was the government of all the citizens of the country. It's inevitable that tax power is part of that
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BUT with fiat money the only reason fedgov even needs to charge taxes is to give citizens a reason to conduct business in dollars (need dollars to pay taxes in dollars)
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Revenue constraints are totally a dead issue
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @1renist
they have been for 85 years, yes, but i'm unconvinced that they were before Wilson
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Revenue constraints were very real under Wilson - USG had to actually finance it's ventures because USD was only a marker for x quantity of gold FDR nullified revenue constraints - USG can't run out of something it can print at will
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