Feb 21, 2013 ... Presumably, no representative from Rhode Island is in the picture; Rhode Island  ... week for finally having ratified the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery.  ... the 16th Amendment, allowing the imposition of the federal income tax. ... " Maybe they felt they didn't need to, because other states had already ...
Rhode Island "didn't ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal  income taxes. So Rhode Island doesn't even have to pay federal income taxes.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from ... This  Amendment was part of a wave of federal and state constitutional ... It doesn't  matter whether one state has lots of whatever is being taxed (such as ... to give  Congress a new, clear power to enact “taxes on incomes”—without  apportionment.
Tax protesters in the United States advance a number of constitutional arguments  asserting that the imposition, assessment and collection of the federal income tax  violates the United States Constitution. .... Some protesters have argued that the  income tax is a prohibited "takings" under the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause  ...
Jan 18, 2013 ... Prior to ratification of the 16th (income tax) Amendment in February 1913, the ...  During peacetime, it did so largely — or even entirely — on import taxes called “ tariffs. ... But before the war, the need for tariff revenue to finance the federal ...  Through the favor of an overruling and indulgent Providence our ...
Rhode Island "didn't ratify the 13th Amendment to the Constitution to pay federal income taxes. So Rhode Island doesn't even have to pay federal income taxes."