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Good News Broadcast Number 010 – <strong>TIME</strong> <strong>EXPIRED</strong> – THE BIGGEST MOMENT IN HISTORYactions of the states taken to adopt the amendment, an <strong>in</strong>vestigative task that Bill had been welltra<strong>in</strong>ed for dur<strong>in</strong>g his years as an <strong>in</strong>vestigator with the Ill<strong>in</strong>ois Department of RevenueTHE PREMISE<strong>The</strong> Authority of the federal government to collect <strong>in</strong>come tax is premised upon the 16th amendmentto the U.S. Constitution, the federal <strong>in</strong>come tax amendment, which was allegedly ratified <strong>in</strong> 1913. In1895, the U.S. Supreme Court had ruled that a similar federal <strong>in</strong>come tax act adopted <strong>in</strong> 1894 wasunconstitutional. This deprived the federal government of a potential source of tax revenue. In1909, the 16th Amendment was proposed by Congress to circumvent that decision by the U.S.Supreme Court. By 1913, the process of ratification of the amendment was claimed to have beencompleted. Because of the existence of this amendment, the federal government lays claim to thepower to collect this tax from all of us.THE DISCOVERYStart<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> January, 1984, Bill went first to the capitols of the New England states and performedhis <strong>in</strong>vestigative research, us<strong>in</strong>g the journals of the various state legislative bodies to f<strong>in</strong>d out howthese states acted upon the proposal by Congress to amend the U.S. Constitution to permit a federal<strong>in</strong>come tax law. After review of these records, he began to see that serious problems existed as towhether these states had legally ratified the same amendment which had been proposed byCongress. When exam<strong>in</strong>ation of the records of about 20 states showed that many had not ratifiedthe amendment and that <strong>in</strong>formation regard<strong>in</strong>g the action taken by these States had been sent to theU.S. Secretary of State, he determ<strong>in</strong>ed that records <strong>in</strong> Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, D.C. most probably existed toprove the po<strong>in</strong>t.In August, 1984, Bill traveled to Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, D.C. to research the historical records <strong>in</strong> theNational Archives. After several days of pursu<strong>in</strong>g fruitless leads, he f<strong>in</strong>ally found a book that hadconta<strong>in</strong>ed with<strong>in</strong> it all federal records which had been prepared dur<strong>in</strong>g the process of amend<strong>in</strong>g theConstitution by the 16th Amendment. This proved to be an exceptional discovery because thosedocuments revealed that a man named Philander Chase Knox, the Secretary of State <strong>in</strong> 1913, wasfully aware that the amendment had not been ratified nonetheless. See Bill Benson's about theGolden Key. After mak<strong>in</strong>g this important discovery, Bill decided it was essential that he also studythe records of all other states which the federal government claimed had ratified the amendment.In September, 1984, Bill started <strong>in</strong>vestigat<strong>in</strong>g the rema<strong>in</strong>der of the states and completed the projecton December 1984. When this year long project was f<strong>in</strong>ished at the end of 1984, Bill knew that nota s<strong>in</strong>gle state had actually and legally ratified the proposal to amend the Constitution <strong>in</strong> the mannerrequired by law. Such a conclusion obviously meant that the federal government lacked the powerto legally impose and collect the federal <strong>in</strong>come tax. See defects tabulated <strong>in</strong> Defects <strong>in</strong> Ratificationof the 16 th Amendment.Written By Floyd E. Taylor Page 169

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