The Supreme Court, of the corporate United states, hands down Stanton v. Baltic Mining, in which the court contradicts—but does not overturn—Brushaber v. Union Railroad, a decision it had made just one week previous. In Brushaber the court held that “the provisions of the [s]ixteenth [a]mendment conferred no new power of taxation.” But in Stanton, the court finds that,

       [T]he 16th [a]mendment [which was fraudulently declared as ratified by lame duck Philander Chase Knox, Secretary of State] conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation possessed by Congress from the beginning from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation [a tax exacted indirectly from a person other than the one on whom the ultimate burden of the tax is expected to fall.” [Such as tariffs on imports, or excises]——Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary]to which it inherently belonged, and being placed in the category of direct taxation [“a tax exacted directly from the person on whom the ultimate burden of the tax is expected to fall, such as property, income, gift, inheritance, and poll taxes.”——Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary].

       NOTE: This is the further realization of plank number one of the “Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx.

       [restored 6/11/2022]