Do all of you pay income taxes? Is it a law that says you have to?

Answer 1

no and no, seriously

Answer 2

The U.S. income tax was first imposed during the Civil War, but was not used from after the Civil War until the 16th Amendment was ratified in 1913 giving Congress the right to tax income.

Answer 3

The income tax was supposed to be a temporary tax to pay for the civil war. It is an illegal tax. But "Big Government" can't run with out it.

Answer 4

If you run 3 businesses you can have so many deductions that taxes can be wiped out.
Alaska PAYS and doesn't tax their residents they have earth rights.


The Alaska state constitution claims common heritage rights of ownership of oil and other minerals for the people of the state as a whole. Citizen dividend checks are distributed every year in Alaska out of the interest payments to an oil royalties deposit account called the Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) created in 1976 after oil was discovered on the North Slope. The APF is a public trust fund - a diversified stock, bond and real estate portfolio - into which are deposited the oil royalties received from the corporations which extract the oil from the lands of Alaska. The first citizen dividend check from the interest of the APF was issued in 1982 and was for $1000 per every person for everyone in Alaska who had resided in the state for at least one year. Annual citizen dividends have been issued every year since then, for a total of more than $23,000 per person.

In 2003, each of the nearly 600,000 Alaska US citizens (residents of Alaska for at least one year) received a check for $1,107 from the APF. The total amount dispersed was $663.2 million. The $25 billion investment fund's core experienced stock market losses which led to the dividend's decline this past year compared to the several previous years. The amount was $433 less, a 28 percent drop from the 2002 pay out of $1,540, and a 44 percent decrease from the all-time high of $1,964 in year 2000. The amount changes based on a five-year average of APF investment income derived from the bonds, stock dividends, real estate and other investments.

Alaska relies on oil for about 80 percent of its revenue and has no sales or income tax. Alaska state government is mandated to invest 25% of its oil revenue into the APF while the other 75% of oil royalty revenue is dispersed to other government funds to finance education, infrastructure and social services. If 100% of Alaska's oil royalties had been deposited into the APF, it is conceivable that the CD this year could have been about $4,400 or $17,600 for a family of four. But then there would have been no funds for roads, education and other public services and no funds available to run the state legislature - a libertarian dream fulfillment or a social and economic disaster, which one we will never know. If state services were to have been maintained while 100% of oil royalties were deposited in the APF, there would of course have been the need for income, sales and other taxes on wages and production.

Answer 5

Yes, to the tune of $300 a week. Without a law, I would never voluntarily give that much. I do not mind helping, but this is too much. I pay for every illegal alien & unwed mother, I think.

Answer 6

yes, and yes it is a law. you can file to not pay taxes on your paycheck, but once it comes time to file your taxes every year, youll have to pay more money. either way, the law says you have to pay taxes

Answer 7

yup, pay my taxes without fail. It's not only the legal point of view but also the moral one to pay your taxes.

And also it gives me the right to went out my rage against the government.

Answer 8

Do what the French did when they were being starved to death....start a Revolution.

Answer 9

Yes. Yes, for most people. Go to www.IRS.gov.

Answer 10

Yes, and yes.

Answer 11

Yes I do. Yes it is.