AMENDMENT 16

FEBUARY 3,1913

AMENDMENT 16 IS ABOUT INCOME TAXES

PROS

• Implement the income tax
• Encouraged people to save money
• Scandels overtaking the IRS are a indecation of an out-of-control bureaucracy

CONS

• Gives the governemen more money giving them more power
• Sales tax which makes items cost more

WHY THE AMENDMENT WAS PROPOSED

• The government had to make a law to get more money
• After the civil was prices on items were to low

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