In the coming weeks, most of us will receive tax forms from our employers so we can due our civil duty: do our taxes. Some of you may owe taxes to the government. You have a choice.
1. You can either cut the government a check
2. You can contact the IRS and set up a payment plan
3. You can knowingly withhold those taxes until the demand is too large to ignore, and then you can request a Geithner waiver.
Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner apologized for his $34,000 tax mistake . He said, “These were careless mistakes. They were avoidable mistakes. But they were unintentional. I should have been more careful.”
I take him at his word. That’s why he should not be confirmed as Treasury Secretary.
We should first notice that $34,000 is not a small amount. And that is the tax, not the underlying income on which tax was not paid. As Treasury Secretary he would be in charge of the IRS.
Is this an example of President Obama’s new ethics?
No, it’s the recurring example of liberal elitism, with a little change and hope tossed in.
hmm, there also is another option, but one better have balls of steel to face the IRS on this one…
One could let the IRS sue for unpaid taxes, and then argue the points (which are valid and have won court cases previously, in many cases) that:
The 16th amendment did not, as the IRS tax code claims, grant new powers of taxation to make the Federal Income Tax legit.
Also, not enough states have ratified the 16th amendment to make it legal, and thus it is completely invalid.
The US Constitution states you can have two types of taxes, direct and indirect, and that a indirect tax MUST be apportionned…which the Federal Income Tax isn’t.
And…as the We The People foundation (hated by the leftists from what I’ve seen) have stated(and proven)…there is NO law that requires you to file a 1040. The IRS refuses to show that law simply because it does not exist.
That, and also the fact that when you file a 1040, you actually waive your 5th amendment rights because they can use it to prove you did not pay your taxes, or made mistakes on it and thus “exploited them”, thus making you incriminate yourself…
You need to be well armed before you enter that courtroom though. Bring any and all previous records of people who have managed to “get away” with not paying taxes.
Now for state income tax, that’s entirely dependant on the state law, but in some states, the state income tax law states that if the person is elligible for federal income tax, then they are eligible to pay the state’s tax.
Also…
The definition of INCOME, as stated in a supreme court case (i forgot exactly which) was stated in the late 1910′s (or early 1920′s).
Income is defined as GAINS or PROFITS made from some CORPORATE activity.
Thus, Income does NOT include wages or salary paid in exchange for work.
But yeah, the IRS will bully you into paying, and some judges will actually refuse to have supreme court cases cited in their court…that kinda prevents you from countering the suit…
typo…
“The US Constitution states you can have two types of taxes, direct and indirect, and that a indirect tax MUST be apportionned…”
Should have typed “and that a DIRECT tax MUST be apportionned”
official text from the Constitution:
Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.
Who’s that celebrity currently cooling his heels in jail for trying that strategy?
no idea, i know it does not always work, as i explained above (because a lower court judge states he refuses to hear supreme court decisions in his courtroom…which is bullshit)
But it is well documented that a good number of people have managed to win their case.
Lysander Spooner is known for pointing out that the payment of taxes is done under the weight of force, ie extortion.
As I understand it, taxes are what we pay for what the government provides in the way of services. This is all good and well, except for what happens if you choose not to pay. Any other agency (non-government) you fail to pay, they do not provide you with the service. Don’t pay for your pizza? No pizza. Don’t pay for a new car? No new car. And so on and so forth. For services rendered there might be an attempt to collect on bills due, but nothing more than that. Once that has occurred they stop providing the service and leave you to live your own life.
The government will first fine you for your failure to pay, then when it becomes apparent you do not wish to pay for it they take you from your home and keep you under lock and key elsewhere before hauling you up in front of a judge who is already on their side who will then force you to either pay or go to jail or both. When they come to kidnap you they will attack you with full force and will do so to anyone else in the house and to anyone who gets in their way. IF you try to defend yourself, they might, in their defense, kill you and they will never stand trial for this. Never.
In this way the government is like the mob and its methods are like that of a protection racket. The pizza place and you come into verbal contract based on voluntary consent. You order, they supply a price, you either pay or not and it goes from there. The lot you bought your car from and yourself came into a voluntary and consensual written contract. You pay them for the car, they provide the car. When the car is entirely paid off, they have no right to repossess the car. Until then they do via the contract they signed with you, by your own voluntary consent.
The government, like the mob, does not come into contract with you. It either tells you to pay for the services or else, or it assumes your consent because it claims jurisdiction, or true ownership, of everything that comes to you. This is why government is morally evil. To say that it is a necessary evil only means that we have not come far enough in ensuring that it becomes an unnecessary one and therefore we can finally get rid of it all together and that means we have been lazy.
The fight for liberty and for all other good will only truly be winnable when we set forth to fight for it.