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Jim Sensenbrenner: is the gentlewoman from Texas aware that the Constitution written by the Founding Fathers prohibited Congress from…

On the recordApril 25, 2001
is the gentlewoman from Texas aware that the Constitution written by the Founding Fathers prohibited Congress from levying direct taxes on the American people, and it required an amendment about 100 years ago in order to allow Congress to even have the power to do what we are talking about?
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Jim Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

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Discussing the constitutional basis for taxation during a debate.

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