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To: SeaHawkFan
I read 26 US Code 6012, which makes reference to “gross taxable income”. Could you point out where the code identifies “taxable income” or “gross taxable income”.

I can't. This is why I said in an earlier post (not to you) that I am open to the possibility that tax payers are correct on some technical point. However, that doesn't matter, because the courts have ruled that you are in fact required to pay taxes along the general lines that we currently pay them. The various arguments persued on this thread have gone to court and lost.

Some people don't understand that in the US court rulings are law. For example, Brown vs. Board of Education made law. It was ruled that seperate but equal was unconstitional, and it was now law that you couldn't seperate kids by the color of their skin.

Likewise, there may be screwy things about the IRS code, but the courts have ruled countless times that you have to pay your taxes along the lines we generally pay them today (and I use that vague phrase to encompass all of the ideas that wages aren't income, etc). All of those things have been tried, and the people who tried them have lost.

114 posted on 07/15/2007 1:23:53 PM PDT by Rodney King (No, we can't all just get along.)
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To: Rodney King

I think most tax payers who get prosecuted are prosecuted because they file false returns.

Those tried for not filing are generally more successful when they ask the government to cite the law that requires them to file or pay taxes in their particular situation and the government can’t, or won’t.

No matter what you think of the IRS or the tax code, a refusal to answer that question would compel me to vote “not guilty”.


116 posted on 07/15/2007 1:44:33 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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