Are Taxes Illegal and if so why do you pay ?
Taxes -
The Internal Revenue service which collects taxes in America is a privately owned company { yes you read that right } although the public are lead to belive it is part of the government . In 1863 the bureau of Internal revenue was fromed to collect taxation , but in 1933 three members of the Prescott/Bush family Helen and Clifton Barton and Hector Echeverria formed the Internal Revenue Tax and Audit Service registered in Deleware . In 1953 , the Original Bureau of Internal Revenue was disbanded , leaving the privately owned Internal Revenue Service to collect all the taxes .
I bet your thinking how did all this get started well my friend , to understand this we have to travel back in time to the first president George Washington { tune in some soothing music } . When George Washington became president he appointed Alexander Hamilton as his secretary of the treasury . Hamilton introduced the bank to the United States , a privately owned central bank which began to lend money to the newly established U.S. government so creating control by debt { I think you can figure that out } . However the bank of the United States as it was called , caused so much poverty , bankruptcy and rebellion that it was eventually closed down , but soon after came its replacement - The Federal Reserve . Interesting to mention the bankers who wrote the bill for the United States Bank were hated by the public because of what I mentioned above . However they are the same people that wrote the bill for the Federal Reserve and whenever they were in public they vehemently opposed the bill for the Federal Reserve that they wrote themselves !!! It was clear manipulation as the public hated these guys and they were so unpopular that support for the Federal Reserve bill increased ten fold . The bill was then pushed threw congress just before Christmas in 1913 when many congressman were at home with their families for the holidays . However to ensure an endless supply of funds for the government they introduced the Federal Income Tax bill also in 1913 . They did this very sneaky as they needed an amendment { we know today as the 16th } and that required 36 states to agree . But philander knox , the secretary of state at the time simply announced that the required majority had been achieved and the bill was then introduced . To this day the Federal Income Tax is illegal yet they continually get away with having americans pay .
Side note- there is no law { that’s right let me say that again } no law , that says Americans must pay Federal Income Tax but they go on paying year after year after year because they think they have to and those that know its illegal do so anyway because they are in fear if they don’t , as they would lose their house , business , car you name it . Which by the way is the very diffeniton of terrorism and also why people see the United States Government by deffiniton , carrying out terrorist acts .
The Federal Reserve the so called central bank of the United States isn’t Federal nor does it have any reserve . The Federal Government of the United States does not own a single share in the Federal Reserve and the American people cannot purchase them . Profits exceed 150 billion a year and the Federal Reserve has not once , in all its history published audit records . Another interesting item I found while doing my investigation as to how the Federal Reserve spends all that money { get ready } to pay off the National Debt , I know I couldn’t believe that either .
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Good one - if ya can sell ‘em this ya oughta be able to sell ‘em the Golden Gate Bridge, too!!!
September 5th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Yes, they’re illegal. I pay for the same reasons that shopkeepers paid Mafia ‘protection rackets’ in the 1930’s; the alternative is worse.
September 7th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I hate taxes more than anyone else, but our tax money does go into funding for this country, and local taxes fund schools, roadways and other projects. It sucks really bad to pay it off, but without taxes it would be extremely hard for the government to pay for anything.
I pay taxes, because you MUST. You do not have a choice. I don’t want the IRS showing up at my front door demanding money or my ass in jail.
September 8th, 2008 at 6:55 am
I am proud to live in a great country like America. I am glad we have a strong military to protect our interests. I am pleased that our freeways and streets are kept well maintained. It is good to have a fire and police department. Public schools give many an opportunity for success.
Am I thrilled to pay taxes? No. But I know that I must give back to America to help support the greatest nation on earth.
Quit your bitchin’ and pay your taxes!
September 10th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
If you have enough with held you don’t have to pay, you get money back.
September 12th, 2008 at 7:10 am
ummm…..i believe that taxes are ok, they’re a good thing.
but i have been told by a very credible source that, legally, you do not have to pay them. there is a loophole in the system, and there is nothing tht means you MUST pay. but, it must be a very tricky situation to get out of.
September 12th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Federal tax statutes are codified in Title 26 of the United States Code, commonly referred to as the Internal Revenue code (IRC). The first IRC was passed in 1939, and later replaced by the IRC of 1954. It was subsequently amended by the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The current version is the IRC of 1986.
TITLE 26–INTERNAL REVENUE CODE
Subtitle A–Income Taxes
CHAPTER 1–NORMAL TAXES AND SURTAXES
Subchapter A–Determination of Tax Liability
PART I–TAX ON INDIVIDUALS
The first federal statute imposing the legal obligation to pay a federal income tax was adopted by Congress in 1862, to pay for the Civil War. The 1862 levied a 3% tax on incomes above $600, rising to 5% for incomes above $10,000. Rates were raised in 1864. This income tax was repealed in 1872, but a new income tax statute was enacted as part of the 1894 Tariff Act.[1] However, in 1895 the Supreme Court struck down a portion of the statute as unconstitutional — specifically, the tax on income from property — as an unapportioned direct tax.
At that time, the United States Constitution specified that Congress may only impose a “direct” tax if it apportions that tax among the states according to each state’s census population.[2] In its 1895 decision the Supreme Court held that a tax on income from property was a direct tax under the Constitution, and so had to be apportioned.
The apportionment requirement made income taxes on property practically impossible, and Congress did not want to limit the income tax solely to a tax on wages. Therefore, in 1909 Congress proposed the Sixteenth Amendment, which became part of the Constitution in 1913 when it was ratified by the required number of states. The Amendment modified the requirement for apportionment of direct taxes by exempting all income taxes—whether considered direct or indirect—from the apportionment requirement. Congress re-adopted the income tax that same year, levying a 1% tax on net personal incomes above $3,000, with a 6% surtax on incomes above $500,000. References in the Internal Revenue Code to corporate earnings and profit before and after February 1913 for characterization as dividend for shareholders are there to provide a belts and suspenders protection for the validity of the tax on shareholders. By 1918, the top rate of the income tax was increased to 77% (on income over $1,000,000) to finance World War I. The top marginal tax rate was reduced to 58% in 1922, to 25% in 1925, and finally to 24% in 1929. In 1932 the top marginal tax rate was increased to 63% during the Great Depression and steadily increased, reaching 94% (on all income over $200,000) in 1945. Top marginal tax rates stayed near or above 90% until 1964 when the top marginal tax rate was lowered to 70%. The top marginal tax rate was lowered to 50% in 1982 and eventually to 28% in 1988. During World War II, Congress introduced payroll withholding and quarterly tax payments.
At first the income tax was incrementally expanded by the Congress of the United States, and then inflation automatically raised most persons into tax brackets formerly reserved for the wealthy until income tax brackets were adjusted for inflation. Income tax now applies to almost ? of the population [1]. The lowest earning workers ($20,000 in 2000) pay no income taxes as a group and actually get a small subsidy from the federal government because of child credits and the Earned Income Tax Credit.
September 15th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
i don’t think any one likes to pay fed. taxes but if you don’t what happens to you , see ya in jail, no thanks but i’ll pay them just to stay on the out side , they really are gangsters ya know, and the really sad part of all this is we pay them to rob from us , so who’s the fool
September 18th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Pay Taxes or go to jail
and as for me i give them
my money make them happy
and iam happy not setting in jail.
September 21st, 2008 at 3:18 am
I can’t yet vote, but I must pay taxes. That sounds fair, right?
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Are you just copying and pasting your manifesto for effect?
Here’s it is at your “NaziUnitedStates” journal:–/289
And cut-and-pasted in another Yahoo Answer:
There is some much untruth in your posting it borders on the ridiculous.
But I do wonder what your source is that the IRS is private. Can you cite any reliable source on that one?