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it's truly amazing that the author of this news article, like most from the establishment press, refer to many Americans who simply want the government to "follow the law" as "tax protesters".

these same reporters could not sight the exact portion of the Code that shows where American citizens "who live and work in the U.S." are required to file and pay. and, so even though the feds have been politely asked in the past 4-5 years in thousands of letters to explain their legal position, we are just supposed to blindly follow their (illegal) directives, well, because the feds say so.

many Amercians are learning how the Code was so deceptively written by treasury dept lawyers, who to this day, will not explain their own Regulations.

it is the Regulations that show Americans who "live and work exclusively in the U.S." that their domestic income is NOT LISTED as one of the items used to determine one's taxable income -- if any. and, as any attorney should know, if the law doesn't specifically state it, it ain't to be considered part of the law!!

this is not the result of a poorly written law, but the extreme limits our Constitution put on Congress to tax. Congress did not and could not tax the incomes of most Americans. that would be considered a "direct tax" which the Constitution forbids!

if my state wants to tax me, fine. but the feds can only legally use "indirect taxes" on me. if i choose not to drive my car as often as i do, i could pay less gasoline taxes as a form of "indirect taxes". same on alcohol and tobacco "indirect taxes".

what incomes the feds can tax is (1) the incomes of people who live in American Possessions (2) resident foreign aliens (3) Americans who make their money outside the U.S. as in any foreign transactions. we might as well throw in the 12 million plus "illegal aliens" as those who pay (they don't file obviously).

the fed govt is so-oo-oo big, it's out of control.
many Americans feel it is their duty as citizens to cut the feds down to size and make them accountable to the laws on the books.

again, the domestic income of most Americans is simply not taxable by the law as it is written.

the deceptive treasury dept lawyers never must have never thought the internet would come around 8 decades after they wrote the Regulations -- which are to be treated the same as the statutes themselves.

the feds have continued the great deception on most American citizens.

this is what the Simkanin trial is (hopefully) bringing out.

if we are to be a country of written law and a constitution, may the truth win out!!