This is huge controversy but the Brown’s are correct. The problem is that the scam has been going on for so long now that everyone accepts it as normal. By scam I mean people that monkeyed the original code and edited it so many times as to make it difficult to determine how the code was morphed into something it was never intended to be.
I will give you my simplistic way of explaining the controversy and then I will give you two very recent cases where the original intent comes out. Both cases are fairly easy reading.
As for my simplistic explanation, start with the amendment:
Amendment XVI
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.
Here’s how the IRS applies it in their code:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on ***revenues***, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
The one word change creates a mountain of paperwork and tax code, and it enslaves us all.
Here are links to the first recent case:
http://www.lawmemo.com/blog/2006/08/no_tax_on_emoti.html
http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/6C978EC47789528D852571F000643F44?OpenDocument
Here’s the second recent case:
http://questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com/2007/07/attorney-tom-cryer-wins-against-irs.html
The key to understanding the entire mess and scam is to understand the problem is rooted in the definition of the word ‘income’. Although the amendment says from whatever ‘source’ derived, it never explained what income meant, leaving it to the IRS to define it for us. When the amendment was passed the word income meant ‘gain’ from such revenues as rent.
Over the decades as Congressman Linder (FairTax) points out, the top 2% rich Americans who were the only ones required to pay income tax found out how to game the meaning of the word ‘income’. Today’s rich such as Warren Buffett or Teresa Heinz Kerry do not have any income, they have only ‘gains’, so they pay less than 15% and they pay no social security and no medicare taxes. The long and short is that the rich got smart and moved away from anything defined as ‘income’ and into things not defined as income.
But the important thing to know is the whole history is a game played around the word ‘income’. The original Income tax was capped at 7% and applied only to the top 2% of income earners. The original tax code was 14 pages long and with today’s font and formatting would fill only 9 pages. It doesn’t take much to understand that the present income tax is so large because in actuality it represents a war on the lower classes.
Once we become aware of how the Income tax is a scam on all of us, the next step is to understand its relation with the Federal Reserve. But that’s another thread.
The eye opener is in the question, what are federal income taxes used for?
Roads?
Education?
Medicare?
Social Security?
The answer to all is NO.
How about the military?
Historically the military was paid for by Corporate taxes. If you look at federal income and outlays for 2006 according to the IRS, borrowing to cover the deficit was 13% of the income, Corporate taxes 11% and military outlays 24%. This is not a coincidence that borrowing and Corporate taxes add exactly to military spending.
Page 83
http://www.unclefed.com/IRS-Forms/2006/i1040.pdf
Personal Income taxes comprising 38% of the total income went to pay for Social Programs, Physical and Human Development and interest on the debt. This last expense is most certainly waste because the Constitution gives Congress the lawful authority to make its own coin. In other words if the Federal Reserve was federalized bringing all its functions into the Department of the Treasury, the deficit would be wiped clean,
Enough of this.
The movement that will get revenues to the government and stop the insane war against the American people is called the FairTax movement:
Elaine and Ed: family Brown (in their preferred nut-case formulation) are delusional, convicted criminals, and are most certainly not correct about tax law or anything else.
You are delusional if you actually think they are correct.
E&E are also likely going to be charged with a multitude of additional offenses involving obstruction of justice, weapons, explosives and threatening various federal officers, including a judge. This time around, they won't have a choice about attending their trial or sentencing.
They will both likely die in federal prison. All of their assets either have been or will be seized to satisfy their tax and other obligations, both state and federal. Their kid may be indicted as an accessory to Elaine's obstruction.
The four arrested accomplices who assisted them in obstructing justice are all facing heavy prison time for multiple offenses. Up to 125 years.
They are all textbook examples of what should and does happen to nut-case tax protesters.
What amazes me is that there are actually people here who think they were "right" and anyone who points out that they are nothing but malcontented, self-interested criminals must work for the federal government or support the current system of taxation.