From: Mighty Xerxes (MXerxes@hotpop.com)
Date: Mon Jul 26 1999 - 09:44:26 MDT
At 1:21 AM -0400 7/24/99, Michael S. Lorrey wrote:
> On the contrary, I posted a lengthy analysis of the tax code long prior
> to your retort and how and why it is a voluntary system for most all
> Americans. Look in the list archives, I posted it about three months
> ago.
1) It was a question/request-for-documentation, more than a retort.
The word 'retort' implies that I was refuting your claim. I know that
there is a dictionary definition that does not include this implication,
but I am refering to the more common usage, which does include such an
implication. I'm just skeptical (but I would like to think in a
non-dogmatic way), and I don't believe people on such matters on a "trust
me" basis, especially when the assertions are contrary to the prevailing
consensus view. I want some empirical evidence, which I happen to think is
a perfectly reasonable and rational attitude. It certainly is an attitude
I would expect people to share on this list. So please don't take offense,
because I'd like to believe your assertions, but I also need to be
convinced by some evidence.
2) Unfortunately, the list archives (<http://www.lucifer.com/exi-lists/>
is the link I get from ExI's homepage) only go up to 3Q 1998, so I could
not find your prior post by searching the archives.
Do you have another copy of your post in your "out" box, or somewhere on
your harddrive, that you could send me? (Private email is fine). Or some
other pointer?
I will admit, however, that I am less interested in a "lengthy analysis of
the tax code" than in a simple citation (or four) for that list of four
categories of people required to file and/or pay income taxes. I'm not
asking you to prove the negative that nobody besides those four categories
is required to file and/or pay (I know how hard that proof is, and I know
that that proving a negative does require a lengthy analysis to be at all
convincing, i.e., worthy of being assessed as "highly probable").
I just asked for simple citations that those four categories are required
to pay/file. Those are positive assertions, and should be supportable with
specific citations to the U.S. tax code or the decision of an authoritative
court. I can then fill in the common legal inference that "what is not
included is necessarily excluded" by myself.
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