Amendment16W7

=16W7= =Amendment Sixteen=

**Essential Question:**

 * 1. What issues prompted the creation of your amendment? (Emily) **
 * 2. What impact did your amendment have on society at **** that time? (Jessica) **
 * Questions and Ans****wers:**

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 * 1: Q) What caused the idea of the amendment? (Jessica) **
 * A) The reason this amendment was made was because many people believed that income tax will supply the United States with a stable economy. **
 * 2: Q) What did citizens think of the amendment? (Jessica) **
 * A) The citizens disliked the amendment at first, because the government was taking a part of their pay that they worked hard to earn so they can use the money to buy food, to pay for electricity bills, and water bills. **
 * 3: Q) Did the amendment have any negative effects? (Jessica) **
 * A) A negative affect that was going through the government when they were choosing if the bill is constitutional or not, was that the government thought that direct tax was unconstitutional, so getting this bill to become a law was a very hard process to pass through. In addition, the more population there was in a state/city, the higher the income tax would be. This was a problem because it wasn't based on how much money you made at a job, so the smaller the state population, the richer they were and the bigger the population, the poorer the st **** ate. **
 * 4: Q) Who started the idea of income tax? (Jessica) **
 * A) The idea of income tax was started by a man who was the Rhode Island Senator, his name was W. Aldrich. He wanted to gain more money to support the government and help provide for citizens, so that is why he came up with the idea of income tax! **
 * 5: Q) Did the amendment have any positive effects to it? (Jessica) **
 * A) A positive affect of the creation of the 16th amendment, is that the government earns money to help pay for soldiers, trade, and more. Another example of a positive effect of the 16th amendment, is that the amendment helped encourage people to get jobs and made business owners pay more for their employ **
 * ees, this way income tax isn't as harsh on most citizens. **
 * 6: Q) When was the 16th amendment created and ratified? (Emily) **
 * A) The 16th amendment was created on July 12, 1909. The 16th amendment was then ratified on February 3rd, 1913. **
 * 7: Q) What did the government do with the extra money they were receiving from the new income tax amendment? (Emily) **
 * A) They used the money to pay soldiers and provide for them. They also used the money for trade with other country's. **
 * 8: Q) How did the amendment help the government? (Emily) **
 * A) The 16th amendment really did help the government. This helped keep the governments debt. It also help provide for the government run jobs, such as paying for the people that work there. The main point to help the government was to provide for the government and the the government to the citizens again. **
 * 9: Q) How did the 16th amendment help citizens? (Emily) **
 * A) This amendment helped the citizens by increasing there pay. Even thought part of it was going to the government. **
 * 10: Q) Who was the president who ratified the 16th amendment? (Emily) **
 * A) President William Taft was the president at the time when the 16 amendment was created. He then ratified it to pass the bill as an amendment. **

**Essential Questions:**

 * 1. What issues prompted the creation of your amendment? (Emily) **
 * There were some issues that prompted the creation of the 16th amendment. One of them was that many people believed that the new amendment of income tax would provide for a more stable source of income and economy. This issue was very reasonable and logical to many people. But the voice of the people weren't the only ones who agreed. A man named Nelson Aldrich was one of the people who really wanted to make there opinion stand out. Aldrich was from Rhode Island, he wanted to support the government with more money. This being that the government would then provide more back to the citizens in ways that only the government could do. That was the whole point, it wouldn't make sense for the citizens to pay the government and then the government to give it right back to them. The government did things like, supporting government jobs to keep the U.S safe, provide for school, help build hospitals, etc. These were some of the issues that prompted the creation of the 16th amendment. **
 * 2. What impact did your amendment have on society at that time? (Jessica) **
 * During the 16th amendment creation society was going through a bit of a tough time. For instance, the 16th amendment was being created during Civil War. This meant that the amendment took about 16 years to finally become what it is now. The 16th amendment was a very controversial bill to discuss . Government wasn't sure if it was fit to be a law, so the bill was passed around many times in order to finally become what it is. Since it came out a little after he civil war, citizens didn't really have money to pay for the income tax. So at first government gave the citizens low income tax, this way citizens and soldiers would have money to help recover from the difficult long war. This was an event that was happening during the 16th amendment which made the decision of the amendment harder. **

Work website: https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-reason-for-the-passage-of-the-16th-amendment-Who-supported-it-and-why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution http://kids.laws.com/16th-amendment http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xvi

16th AMENDMENT ARTICLE SUMMARY- Emily Melish

Summary- One of the things this article talks about it progressive taxes. Progressive tax systems basically have tax rates that charge a higher price to people that receive more income. For the people that don't receive a lot of income are offered the lowest tax rate. It also talked about flat taxes. Flat taxes are when everyone pays the same tax rate no matter how much you make. For example, if the tax rate is 20% and you made $100,000 a year then $20,000 of that would be taken by the government. The same tax rate would go for the rich people who make $1,000,000, they would give $200,000 to the government. It also talked about graduated taxes. Graduated taxes are when people pay a different percentage in taxes based on how much money they make a year. Rich people pay a lot in taxes, up to 40% if they make a lot of money a year. People that don't make a lot of money a year pay a lot less because it is assumed that they need more of there money to survive while rich people have thousands sitting in the bank. This a summary of what the article said.

I agree that we should change the 16th amendment, but not get rid of it. I don't like the idea of graduated taxes because I think if you make a lot of money then you should be able to keep it because you work hard for it. The people who make a lot of money are forced to give it away to the government. If we had a flat tax because then everyone would be paying the same percent of there sallery a year. The rich people wouldn't have to carry the weight of thousands of people anymore. Even thought people who don't make that much a year would struggle a little more, they would all ajust.

16th Amendment Article Summary - Jessica Siciliano

Summary~ In the article, it mentions various positive and negative things about the 16th amendment and whether or not we should get rid of the amendment. Though, the article seems to mention more negative things about the amendment. Plus the article mentions about the amendment having graduated tax in which you would pay more income tax if you gained more money, so the amount of money people make will make a difference in how much income tax they pay. Furthermore the article says that many want to change income tax to go to a flat tax scale in which everyone, no matter how much money they earn, will pay the same percentage of income tax. In the document it states that the reason this amendment must stay is because the income tax helps to pay for schools, military, police, and etc. which we need in our lives. So, if people don’t pay income tax, the government won’t be able to give schools money and pay the police, firemen, military, and etc. Basically without income tax and money being payed to other jobs, then those people will no longer help us out. On the other hand, at first the government said that the amendment will not stay long, but they still never got rid of it because of the previous reasons. This made, and still does, make many citizens mad. Furthermore, citizens also dislike this amendment because many complain that they have to pay a lot of money to the government which they hate because they feel that the hours they worked were just being taken away and that more than half of their pay was given away to the government.

I disagree with the factor of changing or getting rid of the 16th amendment. One reason I would say this is because the graduated scale makes things fair for those who are poor and those who are rich. Yes, the rich might have to pay more than the poor, but if the rich paid the same as the poor, there might be an inflation in the country. A second reason I say this is because a graduated scale makes people's pay and money making more balanced and organized than if it were to be flat taxes. Though if I were to change one thing in the amendment, I would make the income tax percentages a bit smaller because richer people are loosing at least half of their pay. All in all, I think that the 16th amendment is very important when it comes to paying and money making and it should definitely stick with using the graduated taxes sequence.