Let’s be Frank: the Brushaber decision is not favorable to the Tax Honesty movement

Keeping up with tradition, here's the latest in my series of Supreme Court cases dealing with taxation. This one breaks down Justice Edward White's decision in the 1916 case, Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company, 240 U.S. 1 (1916). Since he was a major dissenter from Justice Stephen Field’s decision invalidating the 1894 income tax in the Pollock case, it should come as no surprise that White's majority opinion in Brushaber is not favorable to the tax movement. Follow along as I show where he goes off track in his expositions of what the 16th Amendment did and didn't do, the history leading up to its purported ratification, and the validity of the income tax enacted in its wake.