… can do as a country is to return back to what we had prior to 1913. And that is uniformity. The word uniform was in the United States Constitution. And When the 16th Amendment replaced the word uniformity with graduated tax brackets, we got these seven different tax brackets. Now we stopped employing what the founders believed was the fairest way of making sure that people by their government were treated fairly. It was based upon. (22:26–22:34)
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Asserts that the 16th Amendment introduced graduated tax brackets, replacing uniformity.
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