Article 1, The Legislation, Section 8, Clause 1

Article 1, The Legislation, Section 8, Clause 1
"The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes."

In Present day United States congress has to impose taxes on mostly everything. The country is facing a massive recession causing higher taxes each day. Recently President Barack Obama decided to make tax cuts for the rich to shorten the gap beween the rich and poor.

This political cartoon shows Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution. Congress impose taxes on Americans everyday. They have the power to create taxes for all products being bought in the United States. The state and federal government has a huge power in being able to force taxes.

The Economy depends heavily on taxes. The United States has been using taxes to have control over the economy since it was known as the Union. Congress without taxes would seem out of the ordinary and I highly doubt that will ever happen. Obama and Congress had to make taxes in order to keep the economy somewhat even between the rich and the poor. I feel making tax cuts for the rich would better us as a nation because I feel it wouldn't hurt the rich to help out the less fortunate. It really wouldnt change much they would still be rich, but they would be helping others out at the same time