[sykh]

The argument and points still stand. It’s hard to imagine that one can reasonably describe income taxes as theft but not other forms of taxation. I suppose one can call other sorts of taxes as pernicious or akin to theft but in the United States, at the federal level, I don’t think any of those sorts of taxes exist.

[samatman]

Parent said income tax was unconstitutional for a reason.

He did not say it was theft. You're generalizing without evidence.

[sykh]

I think it’s clear that parent was equating income taxes to theft. The article we are all nominally commenting on is about theft. Parent says he/she can get behind the movement against said theft and that there is a reason that income taxes were unconstitutional. I think I have enough evidence to base my conclusion on. If you really think that I’m wrong in thinking that parent believes that income taxes are theft then why wasn’t this your objection to begin with?

[s73v3r_]

Parent also did not offer any supporting evidence for their argument that it's unconstitutional.

[late2part]

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment

[s73v3r_]

That doesn't provide evidence for it being unconstitutional, especially considering the right of Congress to tax was in the Constitution, and the Sixteenth Amendment explicitly gives them the right to lay income taxes.

[greatamerican]

I obviously refer to the passage of the 16th amendment. Note the choice of the word "WERE."