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The youth voters are mostly democratic. If you look where Ron Paul did well in 2012, it was because of the democratic crossover votes due to no democratic primary challenge to Obama. The youth vote is going to Sanders, not entirely for his positions, but to say no to Hillary. And because it...

First and foremost, I am not against the income tax. It is not my intention to get anyone against the income tax. There is no need to pass any legislation of any kind. All that is needed is to understand the legislation that has already been passed.

Erowe1, Do you truly understand what this discussion is about? Can you articulate the differences between personal services and labor? The success of this will not be won out behind the closed doors of a courtroom, but by getting it aired in the open so that the public forum can lay it on the...

And in every one of those cases the income was presented to the court as either from labor or for personal services. :eek::eek::eek: This is from one of Weston's posts Here income is represented, by the employer, as for personal services on the W-2, then as for labor on Schedule C, by...

No Sonny, the former (personal services) is what qualifies for Section 61(a) as it is income derived from labor. Cost only applies to something that is acquired. The laborer does not acquire the labor, he is the source of it. Thus cost has no bearing on labor. You have absolutely no problem...

That is the difference between personal services and labor. When an individual sells his personal services via a personal services contract, the labor he expends has no value because he is laboring for himself to fulfill the results stipulated in the contract. He is not being paid for...

We do mostly. This is about the clear distinction between labor and personal services. What you describe in the following paragraph, with the artist and accountant, is the difference between employment and self-employment. Labor and personal services both happen under the umbrella of...

Good day, Weston. I just read through your discourse. I still have hope for you. In chapter 6.2 you cover personal and professional services, then in chap 8.2 you equate Michael Jordon to a laborer, that is the mistake that has trapped us in this mess. When Congress empowered business to be...

Congress could have established a national sales tax, but that would have been truly destructive to the low income working class, and that would not have been beneficial for congressional re-election. (National Sales Tax = Congress is the bad guy.) So, Congress went after corporations and...

Human labor is what brought the case to the court. Human labor is what showed the court that the plaintiff's claim was true.

As you say, an accession to wealth. Wealth is defined as: 1. Large quantity of possessions, asset, securities, and the like. 2. State of having abundant financial resources and properties. 3. All material objects, capable of satisfying human wants, desires, or tastes, having a value in...

You are the one misreading, "from whatever source" is the proper phrasing that means that it doesn't matter where the income comes from. "Derived" is what keeps the government from what would be in essence a sales tax. The return of capital is still a transaction, thus it is income, which...

What the 16th says is that Congress can tax income, from whatever source derived. It does not empower Congress to tax income that is representative of a source. If you have $500 worth of capital and invest it and then cash it out later for $700. The whole $700 is income, but only $200 of it...

My mistake, it was Brushaber where the Court stated that what was considered a direct tax in Pollack was always an indirect tax. Moreover, in addition, the conclusion reached in the Pollock Case did not in any degree involve holding that income taxes generically and necessarily came within the...

The Pollock case is where the Supreme Court erred in saying that a tax on investment income was the same as a tax on the investment itself, therefore a direct tax. Upon rehearing they changed their tune. The Supreme Court ruled that the income tax was an indirect tax that did not require...