Do you pay your Federal Income Taxes? Why? Don't you know it is an illegal tax?

Question

Mark D - it has been done. It was proven to be illegal in court and a man was acquitted.

the famous "I will not allow the law in my courtroom" case.

the 16th ammendment was never ratified by a sufficient number of states.

why do you assume that i am liberal? i am conservative.

FIT does not pay for your roads to be paved. i am not saying not to pay any of your taxes - just the FIT.

Answer 1

While it is an illegal tax, the courts will still imprison you for not paying. Income tax has been seen as a way of life to the point that people just do not question it.

Most Americans do not have the money to fight the government over this either. You will also be hard pressed to find an average American willing to read and learn the laws well enough to even understand why it is illegal. So if you end up in a court over this, do not expect the jury to take the time to learn the laws and issue a fully informed decision. They will just listen to the lawyers say that it is legal and they will not question it.

It is comparable to people thinking that the world was flat. People did not question this, they just accepted it for a long long time. A lot longer than we have been paying this tax.

Answer 2

Read the Constitution before you show yourself to be ignorant!

Amendment XVI: Income tax.

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.

Proposal and Ratification

The sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Sixty-first Congress on the 12th of July, 1909, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated the 25th of February, 1913, to have been ratified by 36 of the 48 States. The dates of ratification were: Alabama, August 10, 1909; Kentucky, February 8, 1910; South Carolina, February 19, 1910; Illinois, March 1, 1910; Mississippi, March 7, 1910; Oklahoma, March 10, 1910; Maryland, April 8, 1910; Georgia, August 3, 1910; Texas, August 16, 1910; Ohio, January 19, 1911; Idaho, January 20, 1911; Oregon, January 23, 1911; Washington, January 26, 1911; Montana, January 30, 1911; Indiana, January 30, 1911; California, January 31, 1911; Nevada, January 31, 1911; South Dakota, February 3, 1911; Nebraska, February 9, 1911; North Carolina, February 11, 1911; Colorado, February 15, 1911; North Dakota, February 17, 1911; Kansas, February 18, 1911; Michigan, February 23, 1911; Iowa, February 24, 1911; Missouri, March 16, 1911; Maine, March 31, 1911; Tennessee, April 7, 1911; Arkansas, April 22, 1911 (after having rejected it earlier); Wisconsin, May 26, 1911; New York, July 12, 1911; Arizona, April 6, 1912; Minnesota, June 11, 1912; Louisiana, June 28, 1912; West Virginia, January 31, 1913; New Mexico, February 3, 1913.

Ratification was completed on February 3, 1913.


The amendment should never have been passed, but it did. Therefore, as much as we hate the Infernal Revenue Service, Income Tax is legal and Constitutional!

Besides, if there were no income tax, there would be absolutely NO funds available for all the handout programs you liberals love so much.

Doc Hudson

Answer 3

Because they are willing to use deadly force to collect their taxes! This trumps the law big time! People we are living in a totally corrupt police state! The income tax code is not unconstitutional because it is not requiring any citizen of the several states of the union to pay the tax! It is clearly spelled out in their codes (861 I think) but if you try to use this as a defense in a tax court they will call you a protestor and claim it is frivolous! Follow this line and you will end up like the Browns in NH.
The income tax was set up by the bankers to collect interest on our own money and pay this interest into their coffers. Our tax money is not used by the government but totally goes into the international bankers accounts outside of this country.
Our countries problems are ALL driven by the central banks and their march to total world domination. Our only long term solution is to abolish the Federal Reserve and break their controlling link! Without the Fed the IRS becomes totally obsolete. The short term solution is for our government to print their own interest free green backs like Lincoln and Kennedy did. We do not want or need gold backed currency as the bankers own most all of it and control its value! Almost the whole world functions just fine with a fiat currency. The trick is for the government to carefully control the supply so it doesn’t outstrip the amount of products we are producing or we would have inflation. If they issue too little we would have recession but there is no reason for this to ever happen.
There is only one member of congress that really understands the evil monetary system we are under and knows how to fix it with a minimum of disruption and that is Dr. Ron Paul. If we elect him he would immediately start the process to rid the government of this corrupt control.

Answer 4

Income tax is important in the keeping of this nation. It was used to fund the Civil War, World War I and II and many government programs.

Just remember Income Tax is needed in order to fund Federal Programs and the Military and without it our nation would never be able to fight a war, not a good thing.

Answer 5

Yes, I pay them. I've read all the books saying that the tax isn't legal, but I don't want to go through the hassle of fighting the government over it. It's not worth my time. Anyway, I'm not convinced that all of the arguments are valid.

Instead, I put my time into trying to elect Ron Paul as President. He wants to do away with the income tax, so we wouldn't need to have this discussion.

Answer 6

Yep that is true. There is not one written law that any citizen has to pay federal taxes. Did you know that the IRS isn't even a government agency? The IRS is a privatized agent of banks that help pay the interest on the national debt.

Check out this video.

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1087269999

Answer 7

When are people going to stop believing this tripe just because it sounds good? is a better question. I pay my fed taxes because I like driving on a paved interstate. If we want an amendment to the constitution - how about the citizens have the right to audit the fed. govt.

Answer 8

Listen if you don't want to pay YOUR income tax fine, I don't care you paranoid loser. Yes it's all a conspiracy, I'm actually part of the Illuminati and we are watching you. If you don't pay your taxes we'll kidnap you and take you to our secret base behind Mt Washington.

In response to DOC HUDSON FU don't go generalizing liberals. I'm a Democrat and I've busted my *** for every penny I've ever had. I DON'T want handouts from anybody. There are lazy moochers on both sides of the political fence.

Answer 9

Amendment 16

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

- that folks tells me to pay my income tax or else.

Answer 10

You make a statement like that and then don't back it up with reason or proof? I hope it's not the old "because Ohio wasn't a state" argument, which has been disproved over and over again.