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Donald Craig Mitchell: “And if we could repeal the 16th Amendment and put it so deep under the ground that no Supreme Court could possibly let…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2011
And if we could repeal the 16th Amendment and put it so deep under the ground that no Supreme Court could possibly let an income tax ever spring up to haunt us again, then either a VAT or some sort of national retail sales tax would be a less destructive way of raising revenue.

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Mitchell advocates for repealing the income tax and suggests alternatives like VAT or sales tax.

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