8-88-Resolution-Memorializing Congress-06/20/1988CITY OF SANGER, TEXAS
RESOLUTION R8-88
RESOLUTION MEMORIALIZING CONGRESS
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
WHEREAS, the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States addresses the power to lay and collect taxes, it
was not intended by its framers, as evidenced by the history of
its adoption, nor by the ratifying states to permit taxation by
the federal government of interest income on the general or
special obligations of the states or their political
subdivisions, and
WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the
United States was intended to reserve all powers not specifically
delegated to the United States by the Constitution to the states,
and thereby contemplated a mutuality of respect between the
federal government and the states as respective sovereigns, and
WHEREAS, Congress has enacted legislation which operates to
tax or restrict the states' issuance of general or special
obligations and the income on the income and proceeds; has
enacted retroactive tax legislation and other such legislation
detrimental to the states,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the
State of Texas, the Senate and the House of Representatives
concurring, to memorialize Congress to propose an amendment to
the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution so as
to prohibit Congress from enacting legislation providing for the
collection of income taxes retroactively; to ensure that the
right of the states to finance the public purposes established by
them may not be infringed; to prohibit Congress from taxing
directly or indirectly the income derived from general or special
obligations issued by or on behalf of the state, their political
subdivisions or authorized authorities, and to prohibit the
taxation of the proceeds of or income on the proceeds of the
issuance of these general or special obligations; and to prohibit
Congress from restricting the issuance of general or special
obligations by or on behalf of the states; and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, by the Legislature of the State of
Texas, the Senate and the House of Representatives concurring,
that Congress is memorialized to propose an amendment to Article
XVI of the Constitution of the United States of America by adding
at the end:
"The right of states, their political subdivisions
or authorized authorities to issue general or
special obligations for public purposes as declared
by them, free from taxation directly or indirectly,
shall not be denied by the United States."
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and,
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Texas Secretary of State
forward official copies of this resolution to the President of
the United States, the Speaker of the.House of Representatives
and the President of the Senate of the United States Congress and
to each member of the Texas Delegation to the Congress, to the
Chairman and members of the Ways and Means Committee of the House
of Representatives, Chairmen and members of the House and Senate
Judiciary Committees and to the Chairman and members of the
Finance Committee of the Senate of the United States with the
request that this resolution be officially entered into the
Congressional Record as a memorial to the Congress of the United
States of America.
PASSED AND APPROVED this Q day of 1 . , 1988
by the City Council of the City of Sanger, Te as.
APPROVED:
Mayor Nel Armst
ATTEST:
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Rosalie Garcia
City Secretary