A bit more about honesty. There is a $50 000 reward for anyone who will find a Law which obliged Americans to pay federal income tax. noone claimed it as far as I know. I didnt pledge to give up my hard-earned dollars to whomever, much less to these lazy wasters, so there is no lack of honesty if I do whatever to avoid it. No promise= no break of promise=no dishonesty
Please provide an address at which to claim that reward so someone can tell them about the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, and the legislation adopted pursuant to its authority, including Title 26, United States Code, and the various Public Laws it codifies. Don't be surprised if I don't respond further in this thread as I joined the forum strictly for the purpose of moving your thread here from one of the coin oriented threads, where it was inappropriately posted; and I'm unjoining as soon as I hit the "Post Quick Reply" button.
Just to clarify... Sixteenth Amendment The Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: 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 passed the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1909, and the states ratified it in 1913. The ratification of the amendment overturned an 1895 U.S. Supreme Court decision that had ruled a two percent federal flat tax on incomes over $4,000 unconstitutional (Pollock v. Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 15 S. Ct. 673, 39 L. Ed. 759). Article I of the Constitution states that "direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states … according to their respective numbers." By a 5-4 vote, the Court in Pollock held that the new income tax was a direct tax insofar as it was based on incomes derived from land and, as such, had to be apportioned among the states. Because the law did not provide for apportionment, it was unconstitutional. The decision was unpopular and took the public by surprise because a federal income tax levied during the Civil War had not been struck down. Critics contended that the conservative majority on the Pollock Court was seeking to protect the economic elite. Industrialization had led to the creation of enormous corporate profits and personal fortunes, which could not be taxed to help pay for escalating federal government services. The Democratic party made the enactment of a constitutional amendment a plank in its platform beginning in 1896. The language of the Sixteenth Amendment addressed the issue in Pollock concerning apportionment, repealing the limitation imposed by article I. Soon after the amendment was ratified, Congress established a new personal income tax with rates ranging from one to seven percent on income in excess of $3,000 for a single individual. I'm really jonesing for that address...
taxes or tribute have always been around since the first tribe never mind the first nation-state. Now the income tax is not a bad idea just an idea that needs revision to be more fair. It is the sale's tax that I hate for it is not balanced for the poor and working class. Who have less money to spend never mind then having that taxed.
