Question 1 discussion

[Brian Rookard]

We've already been through this.

You're posting a fake quote.

This is not from the text of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lucas v. Earl. It's a paraphrase of the arguments of the taxpayer, drafted by the taxpayer's lawyers. The Supreme Court rejected these very arguments in this very case.

And more importantly, the Supreme Court in that case actually said "[t]here is no doubt that the statute could tax salaries to those who earned them ...."