Why not... because the American constitution says it is illegal charge for tax collection. In the American constitution, the 16th amendment grants powers to collect taxes and from there creates a host of laws protecting the collection of taxes and the required business practices.
Nope. No, sir. That statement is not correct.
I keep a copy of The Constitution of the United States of America at my desk. It's really a very short document.
Here is the entirety of Amendment XVI.*
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
*The Sixteenth Amendment was ratified February 3, 1913."
It's important to read and understand every word. Here is a series of three words within the 16th Amendment that specify what it is about and what it means: Taxes. On. Incomes.
Those three sequential words are consequential.
The 16th Amendment established the federal income tax.
The 16th Amendment is not about taxes on sales, which are taxes on the transactions of exchanging money for goods or services, whether that transaction takes place in Walmart or on the internet. Sales taxes are imposed, collected, and spent by the "several States", anyway.
