Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit the power of Congress to impose a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.J. Res. 28 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. J. RES. 28

  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 limit the power of Congress to impose a tax on a failure to purchase 
                           goods or services.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 13, 2013

   Mr. Palazzo introduced the following joint resolution; which was 
               referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                            JOINT RESOLUTION


 
  Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to 
 limit the power of Congress to impose a tax on a failure to purchase 
                           goods or services.

    Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled   (two-thirds of each House 
concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an 
amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which shall be 
valid to all intents and purposes as part of the Constitution when 
ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several States 
within seven years after the date of its submission for ratification:

                              ``Article--

    ``Congress shall make no law that imposes a tax on a failure to 
purchase goods or services.''.
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