(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan ... Congress used the power of Article I and the Sixteenth Amendment to create the federal income tax. Prior to the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, income taxes ...

Images: AP/Reuters/Zuma Press Composite ... To get around that, Congress in 1909 passed the 16th Amendment, which for a century has permitted the feds “to lay and collect taxes on incomes.” ...

Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry appears to be walking back his suggestion that the United States should consider repealing the 16th Amendment in what is the latest example of Perry's ...