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Originally Posted by Sonist
Uhm, the 16th Amendment was passed almost a century ago.... I am sure you can find it online.
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Uhm, to begin with, there is some debate about whether or not the 16th Amendment was ever legally ratified or not. Interesting debate in and of itself and the evidence certainly seems to show pretty conclusively that it was not.
Secondly, this amendment does not allow the levying of income tax on a "natural person" since common law states that a "natural person" is entitled to all the proceeds earnt by said "natural persons" efforts. The principle of Common Law pre-dates and is generally recognised as being a higher authority of law than legislative law.
Now,
if the 16th Amendment was legally ratified it is still only legislative law and therefore can not supercede common law.
So how does it allow the Government to levy income tax on the citizenry? Because it is not actually levying income tax on the "natural person". Common law gives no protection to a corporate entity. So the government sets up a corporate entity known as "THE TAXPAYER" and then has you sign up as the trustee of said "TAXPAYER". Being the trustee of this corporate entity you then become liable for any taxes levied on "THE TAXPAYER". Since you freely and voluntarily sign up as the trustee you have no protection under common law and must pay "THE TAXPAYER'S" debts.
So what to do? Simply don't sign up as the trustee.
That's the nutshell version.
But this really isn't the place for such a discussion so we should probably leave the thread to get back on target.
Cheers,
PKFFW