Re: Shock: IRS says 16th Amendment was Ratified
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I'm not a big fan of the income tax, but all of the tax protesters' goofy arguments about why you don't really have to pay income tax never cease to amaze and amuse me. The bottom line is, if you intentionally don't pay your taxes and get caught, you are going to go to prison. Your personal opinion of whether the 16th amendment was properly ratified, or that "voluntary compliance" means that you don't have to pay if you don't want to is not going to help. Federal judges know where their salary comes from and with decades of precedents behind them, the chance that any of them are going to buy into the latest tinfoil hat legal theory and overturn the whole federal tax system is approximately the same as your chance of winning two consecutive Powerball lotteries.
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Even ignoring the 16th amendment most Americans still don't have to pay the income tax. The reason they do is misinformation and fear.
See: Sub-chapter N, Section 861 of th tax code.
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Good luck with that. I hope your cellmate doesn't get too "friendly".
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