AZKC wrote:
Can you explain how the PPACA penaltax is not a direct tax that is NOT apportioned among the several states?

In order to make the income tax (another direct tax not apportioned among the several states) legal, the 16th Amendment needed to be passed and ratified.

How can the PPACA penaltax be legal?


Direct TAXES were put into our constitution or did you not understand this;

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight Eisenhower