User talk:TapperIsTickedToo

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Regarding your edit to the article on the Flint case, the Constitutional provision in question reads as follows, as you know:


 * The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.....

--from Article I, section 8, clause 1.

The word "Taxes" as used in this provision is a reference to what are more specifically called "direct Taxes" in the other provisions of the Constitution. The phrase "Duties, Imposts and Excises" is the long form of the term "indirect tax." The phrase "Duties, Imposts and Excises" is also often shortened to just "excises". So, Article I, section 8, clause 1 does cover both direct taxes and indirect taxes. Famspear (talk) 21:21, 19 December 2015 (UTC)