Re: POLI: Encouraging Tax Evasion

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Mon Jul 26 1999 - 10:17:55 MDT


> > Tax resisters have often looked for technicalities in the actual IRS
> > regulations where they define "income" and "dollars" and other terms,
> > hoping to show that the wording fails to capture most people's actual
> > income today. All such arguments have been and will continue to be
> > rejected, and the people involved often go to jail.
>
> However it has been proven that the 16th Amendment was NEVER ratified.
> The IRS tax code is not based on the 16th Amendment, and specifically
> states in it that participation is entirely voluntary in order to be
> legal.

This argument too has been long since debunked, and people using it
have been and will continue to be jailed. As always, it pays to be
most skeptical of ideas you would /like/ to be true; but a charlatan
on the side of freedom is still a charlatan.

--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC


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