Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in February 1913, created the federal ...

President Donald Trump pitched the idea of eliminating the federal income tax entirely to instead tariff and tax foreign ...

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

He made reference to a period prior to the 16th Amendment when the government was financed by tariffs rather than income ...

But it wasn’t until 1913 that the states ratified the 16th Amendment, giving Congress the right to impose a federal income tax. The social media user who shared the post could not be reached for ...

It all started in 1913 with the ratification of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. In a moment of fiscal irresponsibility, the states approved a federal income tax without limits and without any ...

President Donald Trump authorized raising tariffs on Canada, Mexico and the People’s Republic of China. He has been roundly criticized by business organizations such as the Chamber of Commerce and the ...

President Donald Trump has proposed abolishing federal income taxes, suggesting that tariffs and taxes on foreign nations ...

A Darden School of Business expert says tariffs threatened against Mexico, Canada and China would likely hike costs for U.S.

The Sixteenth Amendment, permitting the income tax, freed the government from dependence on the tax on liquor. The direct election of Senators, through the Seventeenth Amendment, made the Senate ...

Thursday on the RealClearPolitics radio show -- weeknights at 6:00 p.m. on SiriusXM's POTUS Channel 124 and then on Apple, Spotify, and here on our website -- Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon, and Andrew ...