Does anyone believe that if the income tax was invented today, anyone would bother with its Constitutional issues and decide an amendment is necessary. Or even more telling, in 1917 we honestly believed a Constitutional Amendment was needed for the federal government to regulate and ban alcoholic beverages. If that’s true, where is the amendment that is required to ban marijuana, cocaine, or heroin?We dond’t bother with one, because by the time we regulated these substances we had pretty much abandoned the concept (written into the document in several places and reiterated in the 9th and 10th amendment) that the Constitution conferred enumerated powers. Because that just made it too dang hard for politicians to exercise more and more power over us.
Can anyone really disagree?
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