actually the manner in which the fed reserve act was passed was akin to this amnesty crap we are seeing now. they passed it the day before Christmas when most representatives had gone home for the holiday. How did it happen? After previous attempts to push the Federal Reserve Act through Congress, a "group of bankers" (they were members of the Round Table Group, which changed its name in 1920 to: THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS) funded and staffed Woodrow Wilson's campaign for President. He had committed to sign this act. In 1913, Nelson Aldrich, a Senator, and the maternal grandfather to the Rockefellers, pushed the Federal Reserve Act through Congress just before Christmas when much of Congress was on vacation (Reference 3, 4, 5). When elected, Wilson passed the Federal Reserve Act. Later, Wilson remorsefully replied (referring to the FED), "I have unwittingly ruined my country"
the elected officials answer to the corporate lobbyist and are protected by a complicit media... therefore we have much in common with these patriots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_law The Supreme Court has the final authority to interpret the Constitution and makes final decisions regarding all federal laws. United States federal laws are codified in the United States Code. The meaning HASN'T changed Rat - the meaning was, as stated, to tax all income " regardless of the source derived" . It's stated right there. Right in the Constitution, Article I, Section 8. And redefined and strengthened in the 16th Amendment. That's the intent, and that's the meaning. The Congress passed the law, but the codes aren't passed by Congress. The Treasury Dept/IRS take care of that, changing tax codes as needed. And as I stated above, the SC has the final authority...... Tell you what, convince me that YOUR 'source' is more valid. Give me cases, passages in the law that clearly state that personal income derived domestically, shouldn't be taxed. Also, show me where RP says specifically that personal income, derived from 'labor' shouldn't be taxed. You can't, because he doesn't say that. He says - in his own issues page - that he would like to reduce payroll taxes to stimulate the economy, growth, etc.. RP would be better off without wackos twisting his words to fit their beliefs. ANOTHER reason why he's unelectable - wackos .....
We have restricted credit, we have restricted opportunity, we have controlled development, and we have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated, governments in the civilized world--no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. -- Woodrow Wilson
Interesting. Would those protections from unjust taxation be implicit in the Rights themselves 'the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be **infringed**'? Or do specific provision(s) exist that detail what can/can't be taxed? I think a reread of the thread is in order. brb.
This guy seems to know what he is talking about: http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html Regardless, of it being constitutional or not, the ones who wrote that same constitution are spinning in their graves. Let's see, for every 100 bucks in wages roughly 40 of them are confiscated. This doesn't include property tax, sales tax, gas tax, alchohol tax, hotel tax, .... oh god the list is easily 1,000 pages long. Once that number hits 50, I'm bolting... I'm moving to Aruba, This thread exemplies why the chances of my taxation actually decreasing any time soon approaches zero. It's not even the money, it's the god-damn principle of the matter. (incidentally, I'm nowhere near "rich"... yet I'm taxed like a robber-baron)