When you volunteer to
pay your taxes each year (and each paycheck), you can thank Walt Disney and
Donald Duck. The US Government used them to convince people that they were
taxpayers, even though the law did not make them so. Once upon a time,
there was virtually no income tax. Only nonresident aliens and US citizens
not living in one of the States had to pay taxes and then only after they
had earned over $20,000, the equivalent of nearly $350,000 in 2002. The tax
rate was only 1% up to 7% on incomes above $500,000 ($6 million today). Very
few people were subject to the tax in the first place -- only about 1% of
the wealthiest Americans were originally required to file. However, in
1942, things changed even though the law and the Constitution didn't.
American citizens and
permanent resident aliens, living and working within the States of the Union
are not subject to the filing of an IRS Form 1040 and ARE NOT LIABLE for the
payment of a tax on "income"!!! If this surprises you, you are not
alone. You are among the vast majority of American citizens who have been
mislead and misinformed. Income taxes are by and large paid as a
"VOLUNTARY" contribution.
Amazingly, the
IRS demands you waive your Constitutionally protected,
Fifth Amendment right
by signing your tax form
Your signature on a tax return legally binds you to the fact
that you have fully complied with applicable tax laws. You may be severely
fined or imprisoned for any mistakes that you or your tax preparer might
make. Isn't it treason to violate the US Constitution? Isn't that what
military personnel have pledged to protect?
The final report of the 1984 Grace Commission, convened
under President Ronald Reagan, quietly admitted that none of the funds they
collect from federal income taxes goes to pay for any federal government
services. The Grace Commission found that those funds were being used to pay
for interest on the federal debt, and income transfer payments to
beneficiaries of entitlement programs like federal pension plans.
You've also not been
told that the gross revenues of the government--federal, state, and
local--are sufficient to operate present government services and more
WITHOUT RESORT TO TAXATION! Governments, many for the past fifty years,
have been keeping
TWO SETS OF BOOKS, Enron-style: one set for the public and
the other for internal use. Governments have hidden revenues not reported
to the public including stocks, bonds, derivatives, interest on loans, and
much more. Still, everybody is programmed to "pay their fair share"
regardless of the actual need.
For
YEARS, the Internal Revenue Service has ruled the American people with fear,
bluff, and deception, the IRS's major weapons. Americans have been led to
believe that they "owe" an income tax on their earnings; that it is their
"patriotic duty" to pay it, and there is no alternative to the IRS's abuse.
Nothing could be further from the truth! From its beginning, the income tax
was levied on non-resident aliens and
American
citizens living and working in a foreign country and for the federal
government.
During World War I,
the government requested that citizens volunteer to pay taxes as a way to
pay for the war. During World War II the government employed Walt Disney
and his cartoon character, Donald Duck, to increase the voluntary payment of
the income tax. Consider the following facts:
Our Founding Fathers
created a constitutional republic as our form of government. The
Constitution gives the federal/national government limited powers. All
powers not delegated to the United States are reserved to the States
respectively or to the People. The Union was created to be the servant of
the people! The
United States
Constitution
is the supreme law of the land. (Article VI, Clause 2.)
The
Constitution gives the Congress the power to lay and collect taxes to pay
the debts of the government and to provide for the common defense and
general welfare of the United States. Congress is only permitted to levy
two types of taxes.
1. DIRECT TAXES,
which are subject to the rule of apportionment among the states of the
Union.
2. INDIRECT TAXES
-- imposts, duties and excises, subject to the
rule of uniformity.
The US Constitution
does not allow the federal government to use either of the two
classifications to tax CITIZENS or PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIENS of the United
States of America, DIRECTLY. The intent of the
Founders was to keep the government the servant and to prevent it from
becoming the master. (See Article 1, section 2, clause 3 of the U.S.
Constitution.)
Remember
that a US Citizen is a citizen of the District of Columbia and all Federal
possessions. This is different from a Citizen of one of the United States
of America. Sovereign citizens of sovereign states sent representatives to
the Constitutional Convention who the laid the framework for a
constitutional republic, a federal government constrained by the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights to act within the powers expressly
delegated to it. The Federal Government was a servant of the people, not
their master.
A federal census is taken
every ten (10) years to determine the number of representatives to be
allotted to each State and the amount of a direct tax that may be
apportioned to each State. This is determined by the percentage its number
of representatives bears to the total membership in the House of
Representatives. (Article 1, section 2, clause 3; Article 1, section 9,
clause 4.)
It was established in the
Constitutional Convention of 1787 that the Supreme Court of the United
States would have the power of "judicial review". This is the power to
declare laws passed by the U.S. Congress to be null and void if such a law
or laws was/were in violation of the Constitution. This was to be determined
from the original intent as found in
Madison's Notes
recorded during the Convention, the Federalist Papers, and the ratifying
conventions found in Elliott's Debates.
Due to the characteristics
of the SECOND CLASSIFICATION of taxation, the Supreme Court called it an
indirect tax and it is divided into three distinct taxes: IMPOSTS, DUTIES,
and EXCISES. These taxes were intended to provide for the operating expenses
of the government of the United States. (See Article 1, section 8, clause
1.)
Duties and imposts are
taxes levied by the federal government on things imported into the country
from abroad, and are paid at the ports of entry.
The Supreme Court says
that excises are...taxes laid upon the manufacture, sale or consumption of
commodities within the country, upon licenses to pursue certain occupations
and upon corporate privileges. (See Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 US 107
[1911].)
