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hmmmm, did Jeb have to fill out 4473?

color of law

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Because they were the only ones paying taxes.
Excise taxes, not income taxes. Income taxes did not exist and were unconstitutional back then. And taxing your income, gain or profit is not the same as taxing a mans labor.

15 U.S. Code § 17
The labor of a human being is not a commodity or article of commerce. Nothing contained in the antitrust laws shall be construed to forbid the existence and operation of labor, agricultural, or horticultural organizations, instituted for the purposes of mutual help, and not having capital stock or conducted for profit, or to forbid or restrain individual members of such organizations from lawfully carrying out the legitimate objects thereof; nor shall such organizations, or the members thereof, be held or construed to be illegal combinations or conspiracies in restraint of trade, under the antitrust laws.
 

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Excise taxes, not income taxes. Income taxes did not exist and were unconstitutional back then. And taxing your income, gain or profit is not the same as taxing a mans labor.

15 U.S. Code § 17
Was not referring to the income tax, was referring to the host of other taxes; sales, fuel, use, etc.

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