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...we're talking about the Right of the People to their wages of labor.

Actually we're talking about citizenship by birth...

Here is a view presented by the guy who literally wrote the book.

Every employee of any company involved in American commerce is also a provider of a service, and, as such, the employee incurs a tax liability as a result of his or her work. This tax liability is incorporated into what the employee charges the employer for their services, and is eventually incorporated into the final retail cost of the employer's product or service. Each employee is essentially a separate business entity providing a product, be it physical or mental labor, to the employer.

...when business and personal income and payroll taxes disappear, your employer is going to have to make a decision. He will either take some or the entire amount he had been withholding for federal income and payroll taxes and add it to your weekly check, or he will readjust your pay figures so that your entire paycheck will be equal to what you used to call "take home pay"...

http://boortz.com/nuze/200509/09152005.html

So, according to Boortz, the money your employer withholds for taxes isn't exactly YOUR wages, but is your tax burden you passed on to your employer and that your employer will pass on to his customers in the price of a good or service.

He argues that if income taxes and payroll taxes went away your employer could rightfully retain that portion of what you think is your wages for himself because you no longer have that tax burden to pass on to him - it is his money, not yours.

(I don't necessarily agree with Boortz, I certainly don't support his tax plan.) Where does all legitimate authority for government come from?

Depends on what theory you ascribe to.

Does an individual person have the legal ability to take money from another individual?

Of course individuals have the legal ability to take money from another individual. Isn't that what lawsuits are about?