A decade or more ago I was first discovering Ron Paul, I remember this “16th Amendment issue” was a thing he’d often mention (in passing) about the illegitimacy of the Federal Reserve. (keep in mind, for later, Ron Paul’s son Rand Paul represents Kentucky)
The implementation of the Federal Reserve and the voting of the 16th amendment (income tax) has been mentioned in many documentaries about the Federal Reserve also.
To my surprise I learned, there have been several Supreme Court cases with people claiming that the 16th Amendment was illegally implemented. (Keep in mind, Federal Income Tax was ruled unconstitutional twice by the Supreme Court)
Also keep in mind one president (Andrew Jackson) vowed to kill the first Central Bank (seeing it as authoritarian and un-democratic) and he even survived an assassination attempt that he attributed to the central bankers:
Anyway, some of the supreme court cases over the years were people who were part of a Federal Reserve and 16th Amendment Tax “protest movement”. I didnt even know such a thing existed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_prote…
For brevity sake, let’s take the case of ONE state. I found a transcript of an interview with a man who brought a Supreme court case. He had what he claimed to be a long list of proof of illegitimacy of 16th Amendedment ratifcation in many states, but about Kentucky he said this
I casually looked online for these docs for quite a while, but kept failing. MOST of the publicly available “State Legislative Journals” seemed to skip 1910.
I resigned to maybe needing to visit the Library of Congress in-person on my semi-regular visits to D.C.
But eventually by complete happenstance (while looking at other historical documents) I found the FULL Kentucky House Legislative Journals online (not senate)!
As we continue, keep in mind this is the official date that the 16th Amendment was ratified for Kentucky (meaning both the House and The Senate voted for it).
Keep in mind that this is the OFFICIAL date even on Wikipedia: Feb 8, 1910.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth…
It appears the lower House of Kentucky did vote to pass it, but that was on 23 Feb 1910. AFTER the official ratification date of 8Feb1910. That is odd, but I dismissed it. I was really looking for the Senate Legislative Journals. That was my goal.
After more searching, I found the Kentucky Senate Legislative Journal and the OFFICIAL state record of the vote to add the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. On page 600 of a 1900 Page PDF.
Not only did it not have the votes to pass, the Senate actually voted to REJECT it!
I was reeling. Was i reading this right? I went back periodically and read and re-read it a bunch, thinking maybe there was a “double negative” where a vote of “NEA” actually meant “YEA” to adopt the 16th Amendment. I HAD to be wrong.
Remember I said earlier that Ron Paul’s son represents Kentucky? Remember how the Legislative journals on Kentucky public digital records skipped the years I needed?
Rand Paul wouldve had access to the hardcopy Kentucky Legislative Journals I eventually found.
It gets worse. Wikipedia acknowledges that a man named Philander Knox was the center of many claims of controversy about the 16th Amendment. Apparently he just announced it had been ratified by the necessary 3/4ths of States, without any proof.
There is some Irony to his last name “Knox”. Since Fort Knox was the place that all of Americans’ life savings in gold would be eventually confiscated and stashed (shortly following establishment the Federal Reserve).
Here is Philander Knox photographed sitting in da back of da whip next to Woodrow Wilson (who pushed the Federal Reserve in and needed Federal Income Tax to fund the Federal Reserve)
Imagine if Janet Yellen or Jerome Powell ‘swag posted’ on Instagram like this next to their Bugatti or Lamborghinis? That’s basically what this photo is but for the early 1900s.
SIDENOTE: Even Woodrow Wilson realized late in life that he had made a horrible mistake https://twitter.com/s7ephen/status/1647347107873914882
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In conclusion, even if you ignore all the other complaints about the 16th Amendment that people have alleged over the years (like this screenshot)
If you take just pick one state, things unravel quickly.
(I dont wanna believe this, so please correct me if I am wrong)
P.S. Twitter blocked me from continuing my earlier Federal Reserve Thread (linked above) so I continued it a few days later in a separate thread here:
