Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.
Latest action · Mar 15, 2011 Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Progress
Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 15, 2011
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the U.S. government from engaging in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.
Prohibits the constitution or laws of any state, or the laws of the United States, from being subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.
Requires any activities of the U.S. government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected to be sold within three years from the date of ratification of this amendment.
Repeals the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution three years after ratification of this amendment and thereafter prohibits Congress from levying taxes on personal incomes, estates, and gifts.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 3
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Mar 15, 2011Introduced in House
- Mar 15, 2011Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
- Mar 15, 2011Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E489-490)
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Government Operations and Politics.
- Constitution and constitutional amendments
- Government buildings, facilities, and property
- Government corporations and government-sponsored enterprises
- Government Operations and Politics
- International law and treaties
- State and local government operations
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Transfer and inheritance taxes
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Mar 15, 2011Introduced in House
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