{"product_id":"alan-keyes-ceramic-mug-presidential-debate-1999","title":"Alan Keyes Ceramic Mug — Repeal the 16th Amendment (1999)","description":"\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"We need to get rid of the 16th amendment, and return to the original system that funds government with a variety of tariffs and duties.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e— Alan Keyes, Republican primary campaign, 1999\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eRatified in 1913, the 16th Amendment gave Congress the power to tax incomes directly, without apportionment among the states. Before it, Washington ran on tariffs, duties, and excise taxes — money collected at the border and the point of sale rather than claimed from a man's wages before he ever held them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKeyes spent the 1999 primary season arguing that this was not a quaint limitation the country outgrew but the actual constitutional design, and that the income tax's real innovation was giving the federal government first claim on every dollar earned. A quarter-century later, whether that trade was worth making is once again an open question in American political life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eSpecifications\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e11 oz ceramic, glossy white finish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePencil-sketch portrait, printed both sides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDishwasher and microwave safe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePrinted on demand and shipped on fulfillment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eHolds eleven ounces and starts arguments.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Good Brew","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42772889894979,"sku":"d97968fe-693f-4aad-a628-a19ab2b98943","price":18.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/4737\/5683\/files\/db99326d-5590-4f4f-8108-40edfbf71234.webp?v=1764821442","url":"https:\/\/cafe.tollbooth-dpyc.com\/products\/alan-keyes-ceramic-mug-presidential-debate-1999","provider":"Good Brew","version":"1.0","type":"link"}