Does the United States really exist? (continued)
The Constitution of the United States of America (hereinafter simply "the Constitution") was passed initially by a Convention of representatives from the several states to correct imperfections in the Articles of Confederation, primarily out of the difficulty with suppressing a taxpayer revolt known as Shay's Rebellion. Perhaps our pure-trust friends think that the united States made a big mistake by creating the United States, and that is their prerogative and a matter of opinion to hold these views. Denying historical fact is another issue.
Anyway, the Constitution provided the United States, through its Congress, the power to lay and collect taxes. Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: the language is as follows:
The Congress shall have the Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Can we say that the United States' taxing powers under this document at its creation were limited to frontier outposts along the Ohio River? If so, it really makes George Washington quite a tyrant for suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion (a latter-day Shay's Rebellion) in 1794. The federal power to tax the production of whiskey was being asserted in Pennsylvania. If the United States did not include Pennsylvania, then tax was illegal. Can you believe those fools back then? They draft a document in 1787, and by 1794 nobody remembers what the thing even says!
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