Meet the tax defiers
By: Brian Faler, Politico.com
April 15, 2014 04:37 PM EDT
Before the tea party, there were the tax defiers.
Every year around this time, the IRS confronts thousands of Americans who refuse to pay their taxes.
They are not interested in arguing over taxing the rich or whether the poor pay enough. Many reject the entire premise that the government has the power to tax them at all, with elaborate, sometimes paranoid theories about why April 15 does not apply to them.
Some say the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which authorizes Congress to impose an income tax, was never properly adopted by the states. Some say lawmakers never passed a law specifically requiring the public to pay or that taxes are voluntary.
Their bottom line is the same: that the income tax is nothing more than a long-running hoax.
(More here.)
April 15, 2014 04:37 PM EDT
Before the tea party, there were the tax defiers.
Every year around this time, the IRS confronts thousands of Americans who refuse to pay their taxes.
They are not interested in arguing over taxing the rich or whether the poor pay enough. Many reject the entire premise that the government has the power to tax them at all, with elaborate, sometimes paranoid theories about why April 15 does not apply to them.
Some say the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which authorizes Congress to impose an income tax, was never properly adopted by the states. Some say lawmakers never passed a law specifically requiring the public to pay or that taxes are voluntary.
Their bottom line is the same: that the income tax is nothing more than a long-running hoax.
(More here.)
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