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population. The Act of 1862 also provided for a sales tax, excise tax, and inheritance tax; and
established the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who was given the power to assess,
levy, and collect taxes, and was given the authority to enforce tax laws. In 1868, tobacco and
alcoholic beverages were taxed.
The income tax was discontinued in 1872, but after heavy lobbying by the Populist Party, it
was reinstated in 1894, as part of the Wilson-German Tariff Bill, when Congress enacted a 2%
tax on all incomes over $4,000 a year. On May 20, 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the
tax was unconstitutional, because it was not distributed among the states in accordance with the
Constitution. Newspapers controlled by the Illuminati denounced the Court’s decision.
When the income tax legislation was introduced in the Senate in 1894, Sen. Aldrich had
come out against it, saying it was “communistic and socialistic,” but in 1909, he proposed the
16th Amendment to the Constitution, with the support of President Taft, which called for the
creation of a progressive graduated income tax. It was ratified in February, 1913, and levied a
1% tax on all incomes over $3,000, and a progressive surtax on incomes over $20,000. Although
praised by reformers, conservatives said it was “a first step toward complete confiscation of
private property.”
According to a 2-volume investigative report called The Law That Never Was, by William J.
Benson (who had been a special agent with the Illinois Department of Revenue for 10 years) and
M. J. Beckman, on February 25, 1913, shortly before the end of his term, Secretary of State
Philander C. Knox ignored various irregularities, and fraudulently declared that the 16th
Amendment had been ratified by three-fourths (or 36) of the 48 states. Benson traveled to all the
states’ archives, and to the National Archives in Washington, DC, obtaining more than 17,000
pages of documents, all properly notarized and certified by state officials, that proved that the
16th Amendment was never ratified.
A 16-page memo dated February 15, 1913, to Knox, from his solicitor, stated that only four
states had “correctly” ratified the amendment, that Minnesota had not forwarded their copy yet,
and that the resolutions from 33 states contained punctuation, capitalization, or wording different
than the Resolution that was approved by Congress. The memo read:
“In the certified copies of the resolutions passed by the legislatures of the several states
ratifying the proposed 16th amendment, it appears that only four of these resolutions
(those submitted by Arizona, North Dakota, Tennessee and New Mexico) have quoted
absolutely accurately and correctly the 16th amendment as proposed by Congress. The
other thirty-three resolutions all contain errors either of punctuation, capitalization, or
wording. Minnesota, it is to be remembered, did not transmit to the Department a copy of
the resolution passed by the legislature of the state. The resolutions passed by twenty-two
states contain errors only of capitalization or punctuation, or both, while those of eleven
states contain errors in the wording...”
Benson discovered that some word changes and misplaced commas were done by legislative
intent. State Legislatures voting to ratify a proposed Constitutional amendment, must use a
certified, exact copy, as passed by the Congress. Since this was not done, legally, the
Government can only collect an income tax within the guidelines set forth by the Supreme Court
in Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429 (1895), and all sections of the Internal
Revenue Code, based on the 16th Amendment, are not valid.
So, of the 48 states: