Freedom Forum - The Income tax

Is it legal?; is it moral?; who benefits? who advocated it? How was it established? What are the effects of it?:

“The fact is,” says [former congressman James] Traficant, “There’s no freedom in America. That’s a joke. You are born into a limited partnership with the Internal Revenue Service. I want that to be quoted.”

United States Government Attorneys deny that Internal Revenue Service is agency of the United States Government!

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When you hear the word "Income" do you think it means "Earnings"? Afterall, when you earn money from work it's "Income"; Right?… Maybe not. "Income", defined, is:

"gain derived from capital…labor…or both…including profit…through sale or conversion of capital. Income is not a gain accruing to capital or growth in…investment, but is a gain, a profit …severed from the capital…" (Black's Law Dictionary, Sixth Edition).

The keyword in the definition is "GAIN".

In 1920 the U.S. Supreme Court Justices expressed their Opinion on the definition of "Income" when they Opined:

"The Government,…placed chief emphasis upon the word 'gain'…while the significance of the next three words was either overlooked or misconceived-'derived from capital'…Here we have the essential matter…" [Eisnerv.Macomber, 252 US 189, 207 (1920)].

The Justices in the Eisner case were saying "Income is gain"; not an exchange.

When employees trade labor (i.e., personal property) for money (personal property), there's no "GAIN". It's trading a bushel of wheat for a barrel of apples; AN EVEN EXCHANGE! The idea, trading labor for money represents "GAIN", places greater value on "money" than "labor".

21 August 2002 - What is the IRS? by Lisa Guliani, BankIndex.com, "The IRS is a Money-Laundering Extortion Racket"

That’s right, folks. In case you didn’t happen to know this, there is NO federal law or Act of Congress that requires any American citizen to pay the income tax. In fact, it is referred to as a “voluntary” tax. How can this be? Well, simple. When you fill out a W-4 form, you are essentially signing yourself into servitude and “volunteering” yourself to pay the tax.

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