Would you pay federal income tax if it was not written law?

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

http://funadvice.com/r/150j06u8fe9

16th amendment of the Constitution allowing congress to levy an income tax.

And as for wanting to pay that tax, most people didn’t and the original form of a federal income tax was actually held to be unconstitutional because it wasn’t stated anywhere in the Constitution. Bare in mind that taxes was, I would say, the biggest reason we’re the U.S. in the first place.

Heck No.

There is contention that the 16th Amendment was never ratified by the 3/4 of the states necessary to amend the constitution. Four states listed among those ratifying… Kentucky… Oklahoma… California… Minnesota shouldn’t have been.

The Kentucky Senate voted upon the resolution, but rejected it by a vote of 9 in favor and 22 opposed. The Oklahoma Senate amended the language of the 16th Amendment to have a precisely opposite meaning. he California legislative assembly never recorded any vote upon any proposal to adopt the amendment proposed by Congress. The State of Minnesota sent nothing to the Secretary of State in Washington. - the law that never was website Subtracting these four the number of states ratifying is reduced to 34…. two less than the necessary 36 required at the time… before Alaska or Hawaii were states. There are also discrepancies for most of the other ratifying states… according to a study by Bill Benson http://funadvice.com/r/1514ip941rk It should be noted that the 16th amendment followed the Federal Reserve Act and it is argued that the income tax became necessary to subsidize the new debt accrued by the federal government from the selling of bonds to the Federal Reserve Bank. Buoying that argument…according to a 1984 presidential review… it was determined that 100% of federal income tax revenue went towards paying the debt accrued by selling treasury bonds.http://funadvice.com/r/bibdrsr9frk. Essentially… the income tax is a tool to transfer and redistribute wealth from the middle class to a centralized federalist government and the bankers who run it.

mishap on that second link… http://funadvice.com/r/bibdrsr9frk.

That’s what I was getting at :D

Yeah!… It’s obvious to me that the federal income tax was passed concurrently with the federal reserve act for the purpose of expanding the power of both. Since the symbiosis… the federal government has taken on the role of a nanny state… giving entitlement program handouts with one hand while taking wealth in the form of income tax and inflation in the other. The big winners are the banking and corporate cartel who control how the money is doled out… and ensure for themselves the biggest slice of pie… meanwhile democrats tell us that stopping the cycle harms the man on the street and republicans tell us that this is only the free market at play.

heck no… I second that motion.. WOW, the government is robbing us..