Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!ee.udel.edu From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Supreme Court Ruling Message-ID: <49096@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 27 Mar 91 21:36:02 GMT References: <48916@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1234@airs.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ee.udel.edu Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 28 Nntp-Posting-Host: snow-white.ee.udel.edu In article <1234@airs.UUCP> airs!ian@uunet.uu.net (Ian Lance Taylor) writes: >In article <48916@nigel.ee.udel.edu> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes: >>Income tax (originally started to support a war) is >>another example. >Income tax in the U.S. was started by the sixteenth amendment in 1913. I'm fairly sure that state income tax was started during the civil war. Federal income tax was created, the SC declared it unconstitutional, and then the ammendment was passed. I guess this was really is an instance of >``tough cases make bad law'' (that was probably a misquote). >It is possible to overturn precedent. What is very difficult to >overturn is laws created by congress. That too. >How would you propose changing >the current system? Unfortunately, I can't think of anything better. At least, not for human beings. -- Darren -- --- Darren New --- Grad Student --- CIS --- Univ. of Delaware --- ----- Network Protocols, Graphics, Programming Languages, FDTs ----- +=+=+ My time is very valuable, but unfortunately only to me +=+=+ + When you drive screws with a hammer, screwdrivers are unnecessary +