16th Amendment be Damned

American Scofflaw

Here comes the spin.

Like it or not, the Wesley Snipes tax case is going to introduce a wider segment of the American public to the possibility that the Federal Income Tax is not entirely legal, that the 16th Amendment was never properly ratified, and that "income" means gain from corporate activity, NOT wages and salaries which are exchanged for labor of equal worth.

The problem is that the majority of Americans are well aware that the US Government lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. And as they struggle to pay their bills, they will probably be taking a good hard look at that 1040 form and wondering just how a supposedly free society came to have a government so greedy.

So inevitably, the same media that helped sell that lie about Saddam's "nookular" bombs is trying to reassure us serfs that taxes are legal, that we can trust the US Government when it says that the 16th Amendment was ratified (even though nobody is able to document that fact), and that we should go on making do with less so that the government can have more.

All we ask is that you study the matter carefully and think for yourself. Do not let the TV talking heads tell you what truth is, for they do not know themselves. Certainly do not listen to judges who claim that taxes are legal, for after all, they are paid from tax revenues, and more to the point, the Constitution does not allow a judge to declare something legal from the bench when it is not so, nor does the Constitution compel us to accept such a judicial declaration when we know it to be untrue.