Bradley / 2 Senator Ramin

S.S.

A BILL
A joint resolution to amend the 16th Amendments tax on American incomes.
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE
This act may be cited as the Invalidation of Income Taxes Act of 2016.
SECTION 2. FINDINGS
Congress hereby finds and declares that,
1) In 2009, the income tax paperwork cost over $310 billion.
2) The states without an income tax are Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and
Wyoming.
3) New Hampshire and Tennessee are spared from income taxes, but they pay tax on dividends and income
from investments.
4) The Revenue Act of 1861 was introduced to gather funds for the expensive conflict that lasted for four
years, with the price of the American Civil War coming in at approximately $2.5 million per day.
5) Around 47% of Americans did not pay income tax in 2012.
6) In 2007, before the economic downturn, 40% of households did not owe federal income tax.
roughly 7,000 millionaires didnt pay any income tax in 2011.
7) Paying income taxes is more complicated than paying other types of taxes, because the amount you owe
may vary based on your annual income, marital status and other factors.
8) In 2007, half of all income tax revenues were paid by the richest 5% in the country.
State income tax is an additional responsibility for taxpayers, on top of federal income tax.
9) All businesses, except partnerships, must file an annual federal income tax return.
10) If your return was not filed by the due date (including extensions of time to file), you may be subject to
the failure to file penalty, unless you have reasonable cause for your failure to file timely.
11) A total of 5,325,377 Ohio personal income tax returns were filed for tax year 2014.
12) During 2008, in Ohio, the average federal adjusted gross income per return was $61,453.
13) Virginia law requires that you file an individual income tax return if Virginia adjusted gross income is
over the minimum filing threshold.
14) You expect to owe at least $1,000 in tax for the current tax year after subtracting your withholding and
refundable credits.
15) In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.
16) In 1985 for example, the government collected over $450 billion in income tax from a total of $742
billion in total internal revenue receipts.
17) "Gross income" can be generally defined as "all income from whatever source derived.
SECTION 3. STATUTORY LANGUAGE
A) This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution
by conventions in all 50 States, as provided in the Constitution, within eight years from the date of the
submission hereof to the States by the Congress. This article shall remove the income tax levied on the
States with said tax, in order to have all 50 states free of the income tax.
B) This article shall affect the legal citizens of the United States of America in all 50 states.
C) The Invalidation of Income Taxes Act of 2016 shall be enacted on January 1, 2017.

This bill should be passed because the income tax is unfair, people already have enough taxes to pay, and
because the economy would be fine without it. First, the income tax is unfair because people with more
money get taxed more and some people that dont make a lot of money dont get taxed at all. Next, as it is,
U.S. citizens already have to pay for taxes like a sales tax and property tax. Also, if the income tax was
taken away and the sales tax was raised, the economy would be fine. In conclusion, the income tax is unfair
and unnecessary tax that needs to be taken away.