everybody needs to watch this... do you have to pay taxes? hummm... where is it in the code books? sooo when you file - you waive your rights! .......evil bastards...
everybody needs to watch this... do you have to pay taxes? hummm... where is it in the code books? sooo when you file - you waive your rights! .......evil bastards...
The 16th amendment was properly ratified- Congress has the right to tax you on income- look it up. If you look it up in the "code books" or the Internal Revenue Code, you can find the laws that Congress has passed, including the rates that your gross income minus exclusions and deductions can be taxed at. Is there a sentence in the code that says, "Okay, now that the 16th Amendment is ratified, we are going to tax you like this?" No, there isn't. There are sentences like "these are the tax rates for x amount of gross income." I guess Congress didn't foresee morons that couldn't put 2 and 2 together- maybe they should have. Either way, the only reasonable interpretation of the these laws is that Congress is exercising our right to tax. Reread Humpty Dumpty from Alice- if we accept that any interpretation based on anyone's definitions to be equally valid, we have absurd results. We have ways of evaluating language to find what was probably meant by the language used- and should always strive for the most reasonable interpretations. Believing puerile crap like you can't be taxed- just read the words this way- is a disservice to our great ability for language. We might all have different ideas about the meaning of a word, but we can generally know what everyone else is saying- and if not we have ways to clarify. Hypertechnicality ruins language- and hypertechnicality is at the base of this argument about taxes.
