Constitutionality of taxing bonuses?

[Soupy Liberaltarian]

Freeperville seems to be convinced that the taxing of bonuses would violate the ex post facto and bill of attainder clauses of the Constitution.

Is there any merit to their claims?

[closeupready]

1. No. As I understand it, tax laws can be written

to tax income which was earned prior to the tax law being passed, as long as it is within that tax year.

A bill of attainder relates more to criminal law.

[rolltideroll]

2. If they say it, the exact opposite will happen

If they predicted the sun will rise tomorrow, I would get ready for eternal darkness.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. United States vs. Carlton.

Retroactive taxes are constitutional.

[spanone]

4. those are mighty big words for the intellectually challenged freeps

[tritsofme]

5. If this qualifies as a bill of attainder, then it is unconstitutional.

I don't know enough about the law to judge whether or not this is what has happened.

[tonysam]

13. Bonuses are Income. End of Argument.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. I doubt it.

But I was planning to ask my Business Law professor if this would constitute "confiscatory" taxing, which is supposed to be unconstitutional, I believe. I asked him about it before when the subject came up. I asked what constitutes confiscatory? 90%? 99%? 99.9%? He didn't really give me an answer.

But the fact that these taxes have been passed with the SOLE PURPOSE of confiscating most of the bonuses, I imagine it will at least be challenged in court.

[Vickers]

7. I need to get my eyes checked: I read it as *waxing* bonuses.

:crazy:

[BOSSHOG]

8. Reenlistment BONUSES for Sailors are taxable

[lazer47]

10. Add this to it BOSS,, If a Solider, Sailor, Airman or Marine

Cannot fulfill that re-enlistment, the Government that has already taxed the bonus, will then want the bonus money back, and they won't give back the tax,,,,,,

[fumsm]

9. Not on the upper class.

Only ok for labor unions.

[tonysam]

12. The Country Has the Right to Levy Taxes, Period.

They can be as high as they want. In the old days of Ike and before, we had a true progressive tax structure, with something like 91 percent at the top rate.

Of course few people actually paid that much, even the rich, so they gave a lot of money away, thus helping the economy that way.

[Dappleganger]

11. Freepers make up their own damn constitution

For their tiny imaginary little world.

[Zywiec]

14. How about taxing people that don't live in the United States?

:rofl: