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centers The constitution permits all of the following except what

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here your pencil and permits all these off for these

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air cool one is not i will if you think

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about it questions over taxation like how much and who

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can and why bother have been present since the inception

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of the united states Columnists were upset with overbearing taxation

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by the british especially because they didn't have a say

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in how those taxes came to be well under the

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articles of confederation and that was the founding fathers First

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abbott the whole government thing congress didn't even have the

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power to tax since the founders wanted the national government

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to have a pretty limited set of tools when it

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came to bossing states around But then came shay's rebellion

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when a group of farmers in western massachusetts revolted against

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taxes levied by the state to help pay down debt

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from the revolutionary war That forced washington and the rest

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of the good old gang to return to philadelphia with

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hopes of creating a new governing document except this time

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The national government would have the power to tax Does

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the constitution permit a direct taxes new bet originally the

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framers had the idea that states would pay taxes proportional

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to that state's sheriff population like a property tax which

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would synch up with population since property fell within each

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of the state's boundaries Things got a bit more complicated

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though when the u s government wanted to start taxing

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people's incomes rather than just their property a tax collected

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on income wouldn't necessarily line up with the state's population

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In order to permit levying this kind of income tax

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congress proposed and the state's ratified the sixteenth amendment which

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allows congress toe levy in income tax independent from the

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state's population But we can deduct a and b what

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about e state income taxes Now the constitution tries to

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stay out of the states way for the most part

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and it wasn't about to interfere with an individual states

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right to tax its own people to its heart's content

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So he's out of here does the constitution permits seat

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excise taxes well in excise tax is a tax on

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a specific item or good like gasoline or cigarettes Well

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in the early days of the u s the national

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lawmakers needed a way to help generate funds for the

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government's Operating expenses and excise taxes on whiskey tobacco and

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sugar provided a reliable revenue stream for official between carve

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out room for see Well that means the constitution does

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not permit de export taxes The ban on export taxes

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was a major part of the original negotiations During the

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constitutional convention southern states were heavily dependent on exporting agricultural

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products like cotton So they did everything in their power

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to make sure export taxes were off the transactional table

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So d is the correct answer Another north south deal

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at the convention resulted in the three fist rule which

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