Nine Republican House members have introduced a bill that would repeal the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1913, which provides explicit permission for the federal government to levy and collect income tax without apportionment based on population.
Republican representatives sponsoring the bill are Brian Babin (TX), Ronny Jackson (TX), Dan Bishop (NC), Ralph Norman (SC), Mary E. Miller (IL), Doug LaMalfa (CA), Jody B. Hice (GA), Michael Cloud (TX), and Madison Cawthorn (NC).
If passed, the bill would only allow the federal government to appropriate for federal programs in each state as much money as was collected from those states or in direct proportion to the populations in those states.
The bill would be a blow to sparsely populated states that receive significant federal funding, as well as to those states that receive more in federal spending than they contribute. It would strip money from Republican-led states like West Virginia, Mississippi, Alaska, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia and North Carolina that receive far more in federal tax dollars than they contribute to the Treasury. It would be a boon to states like California, New Jersey and New York, where residents pay far more in federal taxes than they receive in return.
The bill has no chance of consideration.