Topic: IRS
Thank You for Paying Your "Voluntary" Income Tax! Love, The IRS Facts about the Federal Income Tax synthesized for an April 15th handout, available by email. Join your local Tea Party and Tax Day Coalition on April 15th!!by Jake Towne, the Champion of the Constitution
(libertarian)
Monday, April 13, 2009
"In a Time of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth is a Revolutionary Act." - George Orwell, author of 1984
1) The premise behind collecting the federal income tax is a complete farce. The IRS claims the tax is voluntary, whereas any sane American realizes that she or he will go to jail if the tax is not paid. This is evident from not only the legal code, but even from the latest 1040 instructions to the taxpayer! (1A) (1B) (2) (3)
IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman writes that the American taxpayer willingly pays income tax "of their own free will" but laments "unfortunately, there will always be some that cheat their fellow citizens by avoiding the payment of their fair share of taxes." Shulman then infers that IRS enforcement will be "prompt" and "strong" (read: 'swift' and 'merciless') for this voluntary tax. (4)
The Treasury calls it "our voluntary tax system." The IRS claims it pursues "enforcement programs to promote voluntary compliance" and establishes "strategies to maximize voluntary tax law compliance by emphasizing customer satisfaction." (5)
2) The federal income tax was originally a Marxist idea. Karl Marx wrote the 10 Planks of a Communist State in his Communist Manifesto. The second plank, right after the abolition of private property was "a heavy progressive or graduated income tax." (6) In 1909, this Marxist idea was politically accepted by Americans as retribution against the "evil capitalists" who had caused the Panic of 1907. 100 years later, both political parties now scapegoat all those in the financial industry as "evil doers." (7) By claiming an ever-increasing amount of your income, the State literally owns your labor. (photo)
3) The federal income tax is unconstitutional. The 16th "Income Tax" Amendment of 1913 was likely never officially ratified, and even if it was, in 1916 the Supreme Court ruled "the Sixteenth Amendment does not purport to confer power to levy income taxes" in Brushaber vs. Union Pacific Railroad. (8, 9, 10, 11) The income tax was first placed into circulation as a 1-7% tax on only the very richest Americans. This top tax bracket grew to an onerous 92% in the 1950s. While this receded, for the middle class this tax has grown 500% to 1000% from this time period. (12)
4) The income tax is mostly used for War-Making, the Welfare State, and the National Debt - not general government and law enforcement! The income tax amounted to $1.2 Trillion for 2008. (13) Outlays were for $2.9 Trillion plus the $0.8 Trillion October bailout. (14) We spent just $0.067 Trillion for general government and law enforcement! (15) Out of every tax dollar, the IRS estimates we spend about a quarter on defense, a dime on the national debt, two pennies on general government & law enforcement and the remainder on Social Security (a giant Ponzi scheme) and other welfare and social programs. (16, graph) (SS-1, SS-2)
5) The $1.2 Trillion federal income tax is unnecessary. Cutting our overseas military empire spending of $1 Trillion per year would justify its elimination. (17) Instead of bailing out the banks for $0.8 Trillion in October and $1.1 Trillion of the Obama stimulus plan, we could have bailed out the increasingly unemployed taxpayer for at least the 2008 tax bill as I argued in January. (18) Remember, America did quite well for the 140 years without an income tax, from 1776-1916!!
6) The federal income tax code is time-consuming, confusing and baffling for many Americans. No wonder – the code itself now consists of 3.4 million words and if printed would fill 7,500 pages. (1B) The code and regulations together were 66,498 pages long in 2006. (19) The taxpayer's 1040 instructions are 161 pages long. (4)Americans spent 6.4 Billion hours filing their taxes in 2006. (19)
7) America's "Tax Army" employs more people (1.2 million) than we have armed forces stationed in the United States (0.9 million).(20, 21) Collecting taxes is a completely non-value added task, adding nothing to our economy. Some of our brightest minds – lawyers, accountants, and computer experts - pound away at keyboards trying to figure out either how to plunder more money from others or find loops in the tax code to "save costs" for their clients. The total cost of collecting taxes is estimated at $63 billion, ironically just $4 Billion short of funding general government and law enforcement! (22) (15) The IRS employs 91,000 and will spend $11.6 Billion in 2009 collecting taxes. (23) (24)
Patriots willing to exercise their natural right to peacefully assemble at your closest local protest site (or just start a protest yourself) are encouraged to enlist with both the Tax Day Coalition (TaxDayCoalition.com) and Tax Day Tea Party (TaxDayTeaParty.com) as I have for events on both on and after April 15. If you would like to join me at a very peaceful protest in east-central Pennsylvania on 4/15, please email me or leave a comment below. [For any government officials reading this, I have paid my taxes every year because I do not want to be imprisoned at the moment, and the collective "you" has failed to intimidate or scare me.] (photo)
A local Pennsylvania man, Arthur Farnsworth, resisted the IRS and maintains he paid all taxes as required by law. He spent the last 2 years in prison and ironically will be released, jobless and near penniless, on April 15th, 2009. (25) He will be on my mind this Wednesday, bringing to mind an earlier article I wrote a year ago on this topic: "First They Came for Those Who Didn't Pay Their Taxes."
(1A) The IRS Tax Code. The IRS strangely recommends visiting Cornell University to view the code and they are correct, it's easier to view. http://www.irs.gov/taxpros/article/0,,id=98137,00.html#irc
(1B)The IRS Tax Code. Easier to search than the IRS or Cornell version. http://www.fourmilab.ch/uscode/26usc/
(6) Marx, Karl. 1848. "Manifesto of the Communist Party" p. 21/44. http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/manifest.pdf
(7) Armstrong, Martin. 2008. It's Just Time. p. 12/77. Contemporary visit and extension of Kondratrieff cycles. http://www.contrahour.com/ItsJustTimeMartinArmstrong.pdf
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"The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window, or you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."
Neo: "What truth?"
Morpheus:"That you are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage... born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind."
Veritas numquam perit. Veritas odit moras. Veritas vincit. Truth never perishes. Truth hates delay. Truth conquers.
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Voluntary, that's funny!!! Like voluntary democracy in Iraq! Hey Jake, check this out some time, chap. 25 i believe is the biggee but the guy is a heavyweight and the whole thing is worth it. henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm
Posted By: Jake, the Champion of the Constitution
Date: 2009-04-14 09:02:08
To any reading this I think its fair I also list the best refutation of the claim #1 above that the income tax is "voluntary"
Strangely, its from a law professor, not the government. I absolutely agree with his conclusion that the IRS will put you in jail if you don't pay. His main argument stems from that the gov't encourages "voluntary compliance" because they then dont need to throw you in jail.
I suppose my main problem is with the casual use of "voluntary compliance". This is where the professor misses the point completely - it's NOT VOLUNTARY and people should NOT PRETEND ITS VOLUNTARY.
Jake, there is another point. The Sixteenth Amendment did not really create a NEW tax; all it did was allow for DIRECT taxation of the citizens. Before the 16th, federal taxes were apportioned; that is, each state paid their "dues" based on population. The Feds never sent a bill to an individual citizen. The 16th changed all that, allowing the feds to send a direct bill to each citizen based on his income, apportionment be damned.
This is an important point, because our Founders did not intend for this to happen. How do I know? Because it wasn't in our original Constitution.
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2) The federal income tax was originally a Marxist idea. Karl Marx wrote the 10 Planks of a Communist State in his Communist Manifesto. The second plank, right after the abolition of private property was "a heavy progressive or graduated income tax." (
Patriots willing to exercise their natural right to peacefully assemble at your closest local protest site (or just start a protest yourself) are encouraged to enlist with both the 
The above facts are available in a nifty flyer format 
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