The Supreme Court may be poised to upend how the federal government has collected money for more than a century, with wide-reaching implications for Congress, policymakers, businesses, and those who hope to one day collect more from the wealthiest Americans.
Originalists will argue under their made-up-in-each-moment* ideology that the Founding Fathers didn’t pay income taxes, so you shouldn’t either. Nor, conveniently, should their Billionaire Masters.
(* Did you ever notice how Originalism NEVER applies to the 2nd Amendment? )
Hey orignalists, we’ve already had Federal wealth taxes.
Umm, what?
God forbid we politicize this court.
Every once in a while, after the smoke clears briefly from the clown shows, the real imperatives of the uber wealthy come shining through. And this SCOTUS is poised to give them everything they want for the next few decades.
Dare to dream big, billionaires. There is an entire legal system that is essentially at your disposal now. No need to buy legislators who come and go. You now own the real thing.
I think that’s referring to the “well regulated militia” bit that seems to get lost in all the arguments…
Thomas would probably argue that outlawing duels goes against originalist intent as well.
I am so sick of this. Although I resist to characterize people by their age cohort, all the 2016 arguments I had with young people were about that even though they didn’t trust Hilary, the Supreme Court is what they should care about - I want to kick a millenial every time I read one of these ever-increasing egregious cases.
i know-run-on sentence, so sue me
I don’t feel like I have a good grasp on this yet but…Trump ginned up a ‘deal’ so people wouldn’t have to pay a HIGHER TAX (ie what they owed under the law at the time) but this couple decided they were STILL being screwed so they sued. The RW got involved and decided to take this to the Supremes so they could '“shut the door to Elizabeth Warren’s far more ambitious levy,” ? Something that hasn’t happened yet but COULD? Is this another solution in search of a case?
All thanks to Citizens United.
Oh, and burn in hell, McConnell.
Duels were widely outlawed in the late 18th century.
My point is that Thomas’ majority opinion in Bruen is drenched in originalist faux-nalysis.
It’s bitter to note that the wealthy right-wing plaintiffs are going after a provision in Trump’s tax law, which was a gigantic give-away to people like them. It’s actually quite Trump-ish. If someone says, “I’m giving you x, for nothing,” you reply, “You scoundrel, in justice you should be giving me 10x. I demand it, now, and I am willing to pay 50x to my lawyers to force you to give it to me.”
Not quite enough for Alexander Hamilton… 
But then the musical wouldn’t have been such fun.
Da six consiglieri will do what their padrones order them to do.
Ethically, these 6 bums are no better than mafiosi.
Burr got charged with murder for that duel, though he ended up being acquitted.
The ultra rich own the current reactionary extremist Supreme Court, especially corrupt lackeys Alito, Thomas, and others. They are striking while the iron is hot.
Now if the Federalist Society pipeline to the Supreme Court can manufacture someone to challenge Brown v. Board of Education, the crazies will really be happy.
Time to take away guns and issue muskets to gun owners.
Meh…
The GOPes are teaching us all that paying bills is a waste of money we owe the rich on account-a becuz.
Why have taxes? It’s just government robbery they say.
Not five, six.