Posted on 04/21/2008 11:52:29 AM PDT by mnehring
Dr. Paul has praised non-violent civil disobedience as an honorable and effective means of dealing with runaway federal power, including taxation. You should, nevertheless, know what you're doing and count the cost before you begin.
Taxpayer or Non-Taxpayer?
Has such a question ever even occurred to you? Have you even heard of a "nontaxpayer" before? Wouldn't it be unpatriotic not to "pay your taxes" like everyone else?
Taxpayer? Nontaxpayer? Which are you? Is there an unequivocal reason that you "voluntarily comply" with the world's most obscure, deceptive, and fraudulently administered tax law, Title 26 of the US Code? Are YOU [fill in your name here] "made liable" for an income tax by some specific activity or circumstance, clearly stated in that book of law, or do you pay tax just because "everybody else does?"
Can you name the statute and section that makes you liable? Would the IRS produce it for you if you were to ask? If you think that they would, just try asking them sometime! You will soon find out that the IRS is not interested in what the law says or means - their only purpose is to take your money, and shame on you for even asking such a "frivolous" question!
As a matter of fact, the average working American is not liable under Title 26 for any "income tax". Don't you consider such a claim worth at least investigating? And Ron Paul, known as "The Taxpayer's Best Friend," has suggested that the true patriot does not mindlessly "comply" with oppressive state demands, despite possible consequences:
"The true patriot... rejects the notion that patriotism means obedience to the state. Resistance need not be violent, but the civil disobedience that might be required involves confrontation with the state and invites possible imprisonment." - Ron Paul, Who Are The Patriots?
Master is very kind. Master lets us keep some of the fruit we pick.
Just as the courts will rule when the United Nations decides to impose its own explicit tax on American citizens (in addition to the current indirect tax collected by the federal government to fund UN activities).
Probably because the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution overrides Title 26.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/usc_sec_26_00000001——000-.html
The Table 26 ‘out’ is a myth.
http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/taxes/JustNoLaw.htm
I hope no one goes to jail over the bad advice in this article.
They are off of plumb.
Of course not.
One can pay one's state taxes in any federal tender. States are not allowed to unilaterally create new forms of tender within their boundaries except for silver and gold.
In other words, castles made of sand regarding supposed legal distinctions between a corporation as a "person" and natural persons, etc.
How many people have gone to jail from following this myth?
To paraphrase Zell Miller, I sometimes wish tarring and feathering tax collectors a la “John Adams” on HBO was still in vogue. But, alas, we end up giving these pricks more toys to compensate for their genitaliac shortcomings.
Why is this article called “Ron Paul’s Boot Camp for Nontaxpayers”? I’m not aware that Ron Paul has ever advocated not paying your taxes, I’ve never seen any indication he’s ever instructed anyone on how to do such, and the article makes no claim to the contrary. It’s a list of old nonsense from a bunch of reality-deficient tax protesters and one quote from Ron Paul about civil disobedience that says nothing about taxes at all.
I know you didn’t write the headline or the article, just pointing out that nothing on the linked page bears any resemblance to the title.
I would suggest clicking on the abuse link at the source article. In addition to that, I feel this is misleading people into committing a federal crime.
Done. I agree with you.
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