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Old 03-27-2008, 07:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Jerry Pitts
You might desire to check into the lawsuit filed by the federal judges in regard to the taking of taxes from their payroll. That act was outlawed, as it was determined by (guess who ?) the judiciary, to be a violation of the Constitution by diminishing their pay while in good behavior.

Jerry

You're a bit behind the times. True, the Supreme Court held in Evans v. Gore, 253 U.S. 245 (1920) that a tax on federal judges' income was unconstitutional, but that case was overruled in O'Malley v. Woodrough, 307 U.S. 277 (1939). The bottom line is that federal judges, like everyone else, are liable for income tax.
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