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pyrrhus's avatar

Speaking as a Constitutional lawyer, It's true that the 16th Amendment did NOT provide an exclusion to the rule of apportionment among the States...nor did Obamacare, which was ridiculously classified as a tax by the Chief Justice...But you see, the US had to pay for a lot of foreign wars, and the Constitution was an impediment to that worthy enterprise....Otherwise, American citizens would have become too prosperous and healthy for their own good!

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It has been clear for a very long time that federal taxes are wholly illegal having never been signed into law by the requisite number of states.

I remember a famous American comedian a few years back who had a popular show on TV and happened to be personally acquainted with the head of the IRS and he turned up one day at IRS headquarters with a camera, long before the days of Smart phones, and asked to see him. The IRS guy thought this was going to be some skit for the comedy show on TV and he thought it would be good publicity for the "caring sharing" IRS I guess so he agreed to an interview. The guy did ask a few jokey questions to get things going and the IRS guy was all very jovial about it until the guy asked him to point him towards the statute that gave the IRS the right to raise federal taxes. The head of the IRS gave a couple of waffley answers and then when it was clear this question was the real reason for the comedian's visit he turned aggressive and threw him out.

When the head of the IRS can't tell a comedian where the authority to steal your money comes from you can bet your bottom dollar it doesn't exist.

So don't pay it.

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