The event cache coordinates are for the gate at Lincoln Parish
Park. Once you pass the gate, take the first road to the right. The
signs will be directing you to the beach, but the first pavillion
(L6) on the right is where the party is. Festivities will commence
around 10 A.M., with lunch being served around noonish, and
socializing until we're run out of the park at 7.
Here is a link to the park
Lincoln Parish Park
This park has mountain bike trails, primitive and RV camping
facilites, a lake with beach, fishing, and playgrounds for everyone
to enjoy. Ptmvette, Little'n, and The Skippers currently have 6
caches located in the park, which can be found by clicking on the
"nearby caches" button. There are plans to put some extra fun game
caches in play for the event, including one where you won't be able
to use your gpsr. There is a $1.50 fee/tax per person to enter.
This should be the only tax you pay this day, as we will be
providing the food and drinks for the event. Feel free to bring any
food/drink items you like, but it is not required. Please log if
you will attend, so we can make sure to have enough food and
beverage for everyone.
We should be getting some groups together to do some local night
caching on Friday and Saturday nights. Feel free to join in if you
are interested.
Here is a little history of the income tax under which we all
toil
The first federal statute imposing the legal obligation to pay a
federal income tax was adopted by Congress in 1862, to pay for the
Civil War. The 1862 levied a 3% tax on incomes above $600, rising
to 5% for incomes above $10,000. Rates were raised in 1864. This
income tax was repealed in 1872, but a new income tax statute was
enacted as part of the 1894 Tariff Act. However, in 1895 the
Supreme Court struck down a portion of the statute as
unconstitutional — specifically, the tax on income from property —
as an unapportioned direct tax.
At that time, the United States Constitution specified that
Congress may only impose a "direct" tax if it apportions that tax
among the states according to each state's census population. In
its 1895 decision the Supreme Court held that a tax on income from
property was a direct tax under the Constitution, and so had to be
apportioned.
The apportionment requirement made income taxes on property
practically impossible, and Congress did not want to limit the
income tax solely to a tax on wages. Therefore, in 1909 Congress
proposed the Sixteenth Amendment, which became part of the
Constitution in 1913 when it was ratified by the required number of
states. The Amendment modified the requirement for apportionment of
direct taxes by exempting all income taxes—whether considered
direct or indirect—from the apportionment requirement.
ARTICLE XVI: The Congress
shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever
source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and
without regard to any census or
enumeration.
Congress re-adopted the income tax that same year, levying a 1% tax
on net personal incomes above $3,000, with a 6% surtax on incomes
above $500,000.