Wesley Snipes Gets Max Sentence

[James Madison]

No, not really. It's more US drug policies which do that - jailing people for tax evasion is surprisingly uncommon..

Agreed. One of my friends says that marijuana should be kept illegal because it "kills brain cells." I'm like if you wanna get high in your home that you're own business. Besides, when's the last time you ever read a news report about someone getting stoned and shooting his girlfriend?

 

[FrankRep]

He deserves it

We all do it, its the law. You may not necessarily agree with it, but you need to follow the rules. I have no sympathy for a man who has more wealth than the common man get thrown in jail when millions of hard working citizens put into the system and get nothing.

Watch this

America: Freedom to Fascism

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173


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[yongrel]

 

[G-Wohl]

It's difficult for me to decide whether I'm happy or sad about this.

On the one hand, we all feel the same way about income taxes (except for, apparently, ibgamer). On the other hand, Wesley Snipes is a talentless prick...

Hmm...

 

[ronpaulitician]

We all do it, its the law.

I reserve the right to question the law.

 

[TruthAtLast]

You are not part of the people who have seen the movie, FREEDOM TO FASCISM.

The movie goes through a lot of effort to prove there is NO WRITTEN LAW that says we have to pay taxes.

Once you start digging on this topic, there are CD's, seminars, movies, court cases, research, books, all on the subject of if Americans need to pay FEDERAL taxes. There are several theories that say we DO NOT.

It's a pretty deep rabbit hole.

Unfortunately the government shot those theories to SH** and put Wesley in jail to prove their point.

Didn't some guy defeat the IRS in court and got off of having to pay taxes? I read some article a couple months ago on it. The prosecution couldn't find a law that proved he had to pay taxes and he got off, but this story has been buried. Anyone else remember this?

Also, what ever happened to the Writ of Certiorari to the Supreme Court that Phil Hart filed in 2002?

Here is an article on it here: http://www.constitutionalincome.com/sup_ct_pet.php

Excerpt:

Since 1996 Hart has made two trips to the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court's library Washington, D.C., and has visited about a half dozen other libraries. He has researched every Congressional Record entry and relevant Congressional documents from the period of time when the income tax amendment to the Constitution was being debated and ratified. He has also accumulated in his files an impressive body of newspaper articles, law and economic journal articles, books, essays and letters that capture the intent of the income tax from the first congressional debate in 1909 through the time it was implemented in 1913.

The purpose of this area of research was to discover what the intent of the American People was when they lobbied Congress and their state legislatures for an income tax amendment to the Constitution. Hart believes an objective review of the record proves that wages are not income and that the 16th Amendment does not empower Congress to levy a new kind of tax not authorized by the Constitution. According to Hart, "The purpose of the 16th Amendment was to bring tax relief to wage earners."​

 

[TXcarlosTX]

The United States Code is law... passed by Congress.

Title 26 of the code requires you to file a return and pay taxes.

It may not be right, but it is the law currently on the books.

ehhhh.... The Internal Revenue Code is not the law. It only defines a contract between the IRS and the individual.

TITLE 26, UNITED STATES CODE SERVICE.

26 USC 7806(b) says that Title 26 is not the law. In other words, "No inference, implication or presumption of legislative construction shall be drawn or made by reason of the location or grouping of any particular section or provision or portion of this title..." N.B. "legislative construction" means "law."


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Section 7806. Construction of Title.

(a) Cross references. The cross references in this title to other portions of the title, or other provisions of law, where the word "see" is used, are made only for convenience, and shall be given no legal effect.

(b) Arrangement and classification. No inference, implication, or presumption of legislative construction shall be drawn or made by reason of the location or grouping of any particular section or provision or portion of this title, nor shall any table of contents, table of cross references, or similar outline, analysis, or descriptive matter relating to the contents of this title be given any legal effect. The preceding sentence also applies to the sidenotes and ancillary tables contained in the various prints of this Act before its enactment into law.

 

[BarryDonegan]

He deserves it

We all do it, its the law. You may not necessarily agree with it, but you need to follow the rules. I have no sympathy for a man who has more wealth than the common man get thrown in jail when millions of hard working citizens put into the system and get nothing.

Wesley Snipes was doing this for the poor tax protesters out there.

He was using his money and celebrity to bring attention to the cause.

Snipes is a hero in the tax protester community, and his time in jail is the correct thing to do for a protester.

 

[FireofLiberty]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_constitutional_arguments

 

[RSLudlum]

No, not really. It's more US drug policies which do that - jailing people for tax evasion is surprisingly uncommon.



Corporations aren't people, and aren't governed by income tax laws.

aren't they actually considered 'special persons' or was the documentary "The Corporation" just a bunch of dribble???

 

[Deborah K]

He deserves it

We all do it, its the law. You may not necessarily agree with it, but you need to follow the rules. I have no sympathy for a man who has more wealth than the common man get thrown in jail when millions of hard working citizens put into the system and get nothing.

It is NOT the law. You just think it is because you've been brainwashed into thinking so. Read: Constitutional Income: Do you have any? By Congressman Phil Hart. You will become enlightened. Taxation on wages is unconstitutional. Taxation on Income as defined by the writers of the 16th amendment IS constitutional. Income is nothing more than gains and profits. If you don't know anything about direct and indirect taxes and apportionment (Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution) study and learn! The 16th amendment did NOT override Article 1section 8. http://www.originalintent.org/edu/consttax.php

 

[Danke]

Title 26 of the code requires you to file a return and pay taxes.

If you are liable. That is key.

 

[diesirae]

aren't they actually considered 'special persons' or was the documentary "The Corporation" just a bunch of dribble???

...mostly dribble

And stop trying to recruit more tax protesters. You're just going to get them jailed, broke, or both.

It is NOT the law. You just think it is because you've been brainwashed into thinking so. Read: Constitutional Income: Do you have any? By Congressman Phil Hart. You will become enlightened. Taxation on wages is unconstitutional. Taxation on Income as defined by the writers of the 16th amendment IS constitutional. Income is nothing more than gains and profits. If you don't know anything about direct and indirect taxes and apportionment (Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution) study and learn! The 16th amendment did NOT override Article 1section 8. http://www.originalintent.org/edu/consttax.php

These arguments have been repeatedly rejected by the court. Also, Amendments are designed to override earlier sections of the Constitution. That's why they're amendments.

 

[Zippyjuan]

The courts have upheld that tax laws are legal and binding. People who did not go to jail used lack of knowlge or being misled as their excuse. The Constitution gives the Senate the power to write taxation laws.
Article 1 Section 8:

Section 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

Life is full of things we may not like but need to abide by.

If you do not like a law, you can try to change it, but you do not have the option to ignore it without facing the consequences as Mr. Snipe has learned.

 

[The One]

He deserves it

We all do it, its the law. You may not necessarily agree with it, but you need to follow the rules. I have no sympathy for a man who has more wealth than the common man get thrown in jail when millions of hard working citizens put into the system and get nothing.

Player hater.

 

[Dr.3D]

He deserves it

We all do it, its the law. You may not necessarily agree with it, but you need to follow the rules. I have no sympathy for a man who has more wealth than the common man get thrown in jail when millions of hard working citizens put into the system and get nothing.

Thinking like that is precisely the reason people can't get a break in the courts.
People think the person who supposedly breaks that non law is guilty of doing something they can't . This makes them jealous, so they take it out on the one person who if they just used their heads could make a difference.

"If I can't get away with it, why should he?" --- this attitude is what is wrong here.

It's like a bunch of crabs trying to crawl out of a bucket.... each of the others keeps pulling the ones almost out of the bucket back in.

 

[Anti Federalist]

By all means, face the consequences.

You do realize what awaits us all in the end?

A prison cell.

Enjoy the new amerika.

You people make me want to vomit.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Thinking like that is precisely the reason people can't get a break in the courts.
People think the person who supposedly breaks that non law is guilty of doing something they can't . This makes them jealous, so they take it out on the one person who if they just used their heads could make a difference.

"If I can't get away with it, why should he?" --- this attitude is what is wrong here.

It's like a bunch of crabs trying to crawl out of a bucket.... each of the others keeps pulling the ones almost out of the bucket back in.

+1 fucking million

I thought that here, of all places, one might get a rest from that sort of nonsense.

Sadly, I'm mistaken.

And that's one reason we will fail.

 

[Danke]

These arguments have been repeatedly rejected by the court. Also, Amendments are designed to override earlier sections of the Constitution. That's why they're amendments.

B.S.

And if an Amendment "overrides" an earlier section, then that section is deleted.

Not the case with the 16th Amendment.

 

[satchelmcqueen]

this is wrong. taxes are a crock. he works, you work, i work, but the government gets a big chunk each week? its stealing.