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    Default There is no real law that requires US citizens to pay taxes? !?

    Up for a good reading? there are 175 comments there, just click on older/newer comments.
    No need to sign up.
    the comments especially fucked up my day.
    my day was fine before this...
    lol........

    sorry if this was brought up here, before.
    if it needs to be merged with a diff thread, thats ok.

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    Default Re: There is no real law that requires US citizens to pay taxes? !?

    ^^^ almost without exception, every 'subscriber' to this theory has wound up being jailed for tax evasion.

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    Default Re: There is no real law that requires US citizens to pay taxes? !?

    Don't let 175 comments by random people mess up your day OR your knowledge of tax law. What authority do these commenters have? Most of them appear to have very little actual knowledge of the law and are mostly going off of conspiracy.
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    Default Re: There is no real law that requires US citizens to pay taxes? !?

    ^^^ there are a bunch of different arguments which have been put forth over the years, such as ...

    - 'wages' are a fair exchange, thus not truly 'profits', thus supposedly not subject to taxation

    - citizens of the original 13 colony states are not legally considered to be the specific US citizens to which the federal income tax applies, since they were never under direct federal jurisdiction ( as opposed to citizens of other US states which were formerly US federal territories before seeking statehood ).

    - the 16th amendment to the US constitution establishing the federal income tax was never properly ratified

    in fact there are literally dozens of such 'claims' ... see

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    Default Re: There is no real law that requires US citizens to pay taxes? !?

    Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution says: "The congress shall have the power to ... lay and collect taxes...." The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." 26 U.S.C. Section 1: "There is hereby imposed ....the tax is:...."

    Yes, the constitution allows the congress to lay and impose taxes, 26 U.S.C. Section 1 et. seq. imposes the income tax.

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    Default Re: There is no real law that requires US citizens to pay taxes? !?

    I do believe our tax system is unconstitutional and fucked up beyond belief, but it's like the mafia. I'm gonna take every single legal tax break I can but in the end I will pay what I am forced to. They are too scary to fight.


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