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Josh Brecheen: “When the 16th Amendment replaced the word uniformity with…”

Featuring: Josh Brecheen, Republican | U.S. House Oklahoma, 2nd Congressional District

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Congressman Brecheen March Telephone Town Hall

Published | Video Starts at 22:26

… 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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