The law is not what is written down in the documents, nor is it the "original intent" when it was passed. The law is how it is interpreted and carried out today.
Erik, you sound like a government shill. This is irrational. Same as saying "2 + 2 = 4 being written down and being the original intent of the mathematicians doesn't matter. It means what people say it means today. If they say it means, 2 + 2 = 5, then they are right."
It doesn't matter what it says in the books. It doesn't matter what people were thinking when the income tax laws were passed. All that matters is that the American people have accepted that an income tax is both legal and necessary for the proper running of government.
Again, irrational. This is the inverse of Appeal to Tradition. Also an Appeal to the Majority.
Contrary to what you might hear here, most people are perfectly comfortable paying income taxes.
Contrary to what you might hear, this country did just fine without an income tax for over 150 years. We became the richest, most prosperous nation in the world while having no income tax.
Of course they may complain about the IRS from time to time, but that is just idle bitching. When you ask them whether they would rather keep their tax money and give up all the government services they believe it provides or keep paying taxes, the vast majority of people would keep paying taxes.
Regardless, taxation is theft, and we should end direct taxation.
Taxation is not a contribution. If you refuse to pay, you will receive threatening letters demanding payment. If you ignore them, eventually a case will be filed in court. If you ignore the summons and fail to appear, a warrant will be issued for your arrest and men with guns will come to your home to take you to jail. If you tell them you're not going and to leave your property, they will forcibly try to take you in. If you physically resist and fight back, they can and will legally kill you. That is taking money by threat of force, and by force if the threat isn't sufficient. That is theft, which is continual in the case of taxation and which therefore equates to slavery, and it is immoral.
"To take a man's property without his consent is robbery; and to assume his consent where no consent is given, makes the taking none the less robbery. If it did not, the highwayman has the same right to assume a man's consent to part with his purse, that any other man, or body of men, can have. And his assumption would afford as much moral justification for his robbery as does a like assumption, on the part of the government, for taking a man's property without his consent. The government's pretense of protecting him, as an equivalent for the taxation, affords no justification. It is for himself to decide whether he desires such protection as the government offers him. If he does not desire it, or does not bargain for it, the government has no more right, than any other insurance company to impose it upon him, or make him pay for it." - Lysander Spooner, "Trial by Jury"
Most people, because of with-holding, do not even know how much money they pay into taxes each year. All they know is that if they are lucky, the IRS sends them a "refund check" every spring and they get to run out to the mall and buy something new for themselves.
Yes, master will throw them back some scraps as long as they keep licking his boots...
