Now, This is Courage
Written by Sam on January 20th, 2007Brown, 63, and his wife, Elaine, 65, were convicted Thursday of plotting to conceal their income and avoid paying federal income tax. They argued the tax is illegitimate and they are not required to pay it………..
……………….. The Browns’ case has found support on the Internet from militia members to libertarians and anti-tax groups.
Rick Stanley, a Denver-based Web radio host and a militia leader, urged listeners to join Brown at his home.
“We are continuing to ask patriots to surround Ed Brown’s property and life with a ring of armed Americans with firearms and video cameras to protect a fellow American,” he said. “This is the flash point. This is the time of raised pitchforks.”
MyWay
Say what you want about this man, but he is doing exactly what more Americans should do, but which 99% of are too afraid to. He is standing up to an oppressive government. Yes, I am talking about the U.S. Government.
The debate over whether or not the income tax is legal has been waging since it was reinstituted in 1913 under the guise of the 16th Amendment. There has also been skepticism as to whether the 16th Amendment was even ratified.
I honestly don’t know if the income tax is Constitutional or not, but I do know one thing. The income tax has been the most oppressive tool used by the U.S. Government to keep its citizens in line. It has allowed the government to take everything from you at the point of a gun and destroy your life completely. So, legal or not, it should be done away with. The government should not be allowed to have that much power over our lives. There are many advocate groups out there that have been lobbying for its elimination, but the bottom line is it isn’t going away until you start seeing more instances like this guy having armed, bloodshedding confrontations with the government and the American people start opening their eyes.
That isn’t freedom, folks. The American people aren’t supposed to fear their government; it is they who should be fearing us. They don’t. The Founders of this nation came here to get away from exactly this kind of tyranny and I assure you they are rolling in their graves over what America has turned into. Don’t be fooled by what you were taught in school. While we may have more freedoms than any other nation, the USA is NOT a free country.
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Do you realize that our tax burden is far lower than any other civilized country? Or that the government (relative to the size of the total economy) has remained at about the same size for the last 40 years? Or what a psychotic nut you sound like by writing this?
Seriously, you should let some of the level-headed people post more. Your post is not a way to stimulate intelligent discussion about the income tax.
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You ask whether or not the income tax is constitutional in your post. Nobody likes income taxes and we should find a way around them like the Flat tax or look at what Slovakia has implemented. But here is what the 16th Amendment of our great Constitution reads…
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.
It is not what our founding fathers intended, yet the founding fathers did impose the 3/5 Compromise which was later rendered moot by the 14th Amendment. Just some food for thought. And I agree with the last individual, you are a bit extreme when you claim that our country is not free. Sure, we could be a bit more free, there probably is no such thing as being absolutely free but I think the great USA is still a great model.