[KentuckyWoman]

I wish him luck. Thing is, most folks work for some company who takes out all these taxes before they get what's left so refusing to file isn't an option (unless they don't want to get any 'extra' back, that is). I keep wondering what would happen if a state passed some sort of ordance saying that companies didn't have to 'withhold' from their employees' checks and whether such a move could possibly fall under 10th amendment protection somehow...

[Phantom Lord]

They could do so in regardes to state taxes, not federal.

And NEVER forget, and most people don't know, prior to WWII there was no withholding. It was instituted because the government needed a constant stream of revenue to pay for the war. Withholding was suppose to end when the war ended. As we know, it didnt.

And neither did the tax on your phone instituted to help pay for the Spanish-American war. Were still paying it over 100 years later. I havent heard any reports from the front lately, I sure hope our boys are kicking some Spanish ass and come home soon.

[LandofLincoln]

BINGO! You hit the nail on the head. None of us pay taxes. We pay our mortgage, and credit card bills, but our taxes are confiscated by our employers before we ever see our checks. Thomas Jefferson said it best, "this country will need a revolution every twenty years, just to keep our government right. But, somewhere in the last half of the last century Americans became a bunch of squirrels. I will tell you who the tax code does not apply toward ... every single person who comes to this country get a free ride on the income tax issue for SEVEN full years.