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Avoiding jail requires one to demonstrate supreme ignorance. I assume you would avoid jail.

Does this mean I won't make your Christmas list?

Does this mean I won't make your Christmas list?

If you could read the card, I'd sent it.

You also must have missed a Supreme court case above that says wages are taxable. No surprise. Pond scum never cares about facts.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

UNITED STATES v. FREDERICK L. MERRIAM.

UNITED STATES v. HENRY B. ANDERSON.

Docket: 67, 68 Filed November 12, 1923

On Writs of Certiorari to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit

OPINION

Mr. Justice SUTHERLAND delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are actions brought by the United States against the respective
defendants, to recover the amount of additional income taxes assessed
against them under the Act of October 3, 1913, c. 16, 38 Stat. 114, 166.
The pertinent provisions of the statute are:

"A. Subdivision 1. That there shall be levied, assessed, collected and
paid annually upon the entire net income arising or accruing from all
sources in the preceding calendar year to every citizen of the United
States, whether residing at home or abroad, and to every person residing
in the United States, though not a citizen thereof, a tax of one per
centum * * * upon such income. * * *

"B. That, subject only to such exemptions and deductions as are
hereinafter allowed, the net income of a taxable person shall include
gains, profits, and income derived from salaries, wages, or compensation
for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, or from
professions, vocations, businesses, trade, commerce, or sales, or dealings
in property, whether real or personal, growing out of the ownership or use
of or interest in real or personal property, also from interest, rent,
dividends, securities, or the transaction of any lawful business carried
on for gain or profit, or gains or profits and income derived from any
source whatever, including the income from but not the value of property
acquired by gift, bequest, devise or descent. * * *"