A question about the tax code

[DJ Raijin]

Where is it, that American citizens have to pay income taxes? Can it be pointed out to me as I seem to be having a bit of trouble locating it.

The truth is, there truly is no law in effect that requires you to pay a tax on your labor and it is unconstitutional. According to the Supreme Court, labor is personal property and therefore non-taxable.

Income, as defined by the Supreme Court, is gains and profits stemming from corporate actions. Meaning, that a business's profits are taxable, but the labor you perform for said business, is not a taxable commodity.

Supreme Court also ruled that the 16th Amendment did not give the government any new taxing powers. As such, it's written that it's "voluntary compliance" and nowhere in the law is it written that the IRS actually has the power to seize private property.

So where does this money go? Roads? No that's what the gas tax is for. Military? No that's budgeted from Corporate Income Taxes. Education? That's property tax.

So we have an organization collecting almost 1 Trillion dollars of our earned wages every year, and it's not even being spent on bettering America or paying off our national debt!

I think I just raged the planets into alignment!

Try watching this - America: Freedom to Fascism (warning, its almost 2 hours)http://video.google.com/videop...90173

[smockers83]

Excuse me? Have you met our government?

If the things are paid for in the manner you state, you have everything else the government does that has to be paid for.

We've had this debate before. Here's the Supreme Court's ruling and how the 16th Amendment came about from a post of mine:

In regards to the Supreme Court ruling that income tax at one point was unconstitutional, I think the ruling was that it wasn't in conformity with the constitution (it wasn't apportioned by state). It was also in regards to income received from personal property and real estate specifically. One of the justices wrote in his ruling:

When, therefore, this court adjudges, as it does now adjudge, that Congress cannot impose a duty or tax upon personal property, or upon income arising either from rents of real estate or from personal property, including invested personal property, bonds, stocks, and investments of all kinds, except by apportioning the sum to be so raised among the States according to population, it practically decides that, without an amendment of the Constitution -- two-thirds of both Houses of Congress and three-fourths of the States concurring -- such property and incomes can never be made to contribute to the support of the national government.

And so we got the 16th Amendment.zerothread?id=336971

In the ruling, the justice tells Congress to make an amendment. He also says that the tax is legal when apportioned by state, meaning that the tax prior to the ruling wasn't apportioned by state.