From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics,nz.politics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Film ICE At Work, Get Arrested
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 23:24:28 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:25:02 -0400, Yak wrote:
> On 7/15/25 3:46 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> I had a look at the 16th Amendment. It just says Congress has the power
>> to levy taxes,
>
> It says more than that. It says - The Congress shall have power to lay
> and collect taxes on incomes, *from whatever source derived*
In other words, they get to choose the source from which they collect
those taxes.
>> so Iâm not sure which part of that you think the non-citizens
>> are breaking.
>
> Are *all* illegals paying income taxes on their income, from whatever
> source derived?
Congress gets to make that choice. Obama proposed to include illegal
immigrants as another such âsourceâ, but his Republican opponents refused.