Question for the Forum

a reply to: MrBlaq

Thank you OP for asking the question here.
I learned something new about taxes being constitutionally protected....and also found much amusement from the news.

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: MrBlaq
What is the IRS statute that makes American citizens liable to pay federal income taxes?

Instead today we have permanent progressive income tax collected by employers (instead of the IRS) to prop up an over bloated bureaucracy that has mis appropriated it all and invented marvelous other forms of less noticed taxation, thru licensing, permits, fees and fines, to name a few.

Sounds like a white collar job creation scheme.

originally posted by: teapot

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: MrBlaq
What is the IRS statute that makes American citizens liable to pay federal income taxes?

Instead today we have permanent progressive income tax collected by employers (instead of the IRS) to prop up an over bloated bureaucracy that has mis appropriated it all and invented marvelous other forms of less noticed taxation, thru licensing, permits, fees and fines, to name a few.

Sounds like a white collar job creation scheme.

Or a fiefdom, serfdom, hows it feel to be a peasant?

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: teapot

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: MrBlaq
What is the IRS statute that makes American citizens liable to pay federal income taxes?

Instead today we have permanent progressive income tax collected by employers (instead of the IRS) to prop up an over bloated bureaucracy that has mis appropriated it all and invented marvelous other forms of less noticed taxation, thru licensing, permits, fees and fines, to name a few.

Sounds like a white collar job creation scheme.

Or a fiefdom, serfdom, hows it feel to be a peasant?

Proud of my working class roots, still grounded and thankfully not subject to the US constitution.

a reply to: grainofsand

In the Revolutionary days created by our separation from England... and even our infamous Boston Tea fought and died against "taxation (by England) WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

We understood taxing... but by and for ourselves benefit as the Colonies forming a new country... and not back across the pond to the King.

originally posted by: teapot

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: teapot

originally posted by: intrptr

originally posted by: MrBlaq
What is the IRS statute that makes American citizens liable to pay federal income taxes?

Instead today we have permanent progressive income tax collected by employers (instead of the IRS) to prop up an over bloated bureaucracy that has mis appropriated it all and invented marvelous other forms of less noticed taxation, thru licensing, permits, fees and fines, to name a few.

Sounds like a white collar job creation scheme.

Or a fiefdom, serfdom, hows it feel to be a peasant?

Proud of my working class roots, still grounded and thankfully not subject to the US constitution.

Whats left of the constitution , me neither.

Um. The Constitution was written as a living document. That's why there are amendments. They can amend the document to properly represent the wishes of the people as represented by Congress.

Any amendment can be repealed or a new one can be added. You just need to congressional votes to do it. If you don't like the amendment, get your congressman to draft a bill to repeal it, then get the necessary votes to make it happen.

Civics. It's easy.