Property, being an inalienable right as outlined in the preceeding documents of the Declaration of Independence, and spelled out as "the Pursuit of Happiness" in the Declaration itself, is one of the three fundamental rights that our Founders, influenced by Locke and Smith, promised us. If McCulloch v. Maryland is to hold true today, then "the power to tax is the power to destroy." Thus, the 16th Amendment, and other direct and indirect taxes on income, is a violation of our original Bill of Rights, the Declaration, which is the document that governs our nation; the Constitution is but a rule book for carrying out the government of that nation and has no legal precedence over the Delcaration. Thus, any tax on income, which is the property of the citizen, is a violation of his rights.



