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Yes, I have seen the law saying residents and citizens of the fifty states and territories that are part of the United States have to pay income taxes. Those laws are codified in Title 26 of the U.S. Code. You can read it at http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/ or at http://uscode.house.gov/download/title_26.shtml
The sections that apply to most people are 1, 61, 62, 63, 3402, 6001, 6011, 6012, 6151 and several others.
To read the laws exactly as they were passed by Congress, you have to go to the U.S. Statutes at Large. For the most part, these are not available online. However, they are available in most law libraries and most federal depository libraries. Do an online search to find one in your area. Our current tax laws get their basic structure from the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which can be found in Volume 100 starting on page 2085. Various other acts of Congress in the years since 1986 have amended that law to result in the current tax laws.
The site you link only includes movies that are full of conspiracy theory nonsense. A person has to drop all common sense to even believe half of what is presented there.
As for ‘Freedom to Fascism’, you should go to http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html and http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/taxes/IncomeTax.htm and look up almost every tax argument presented in the film to see why the film is wrong.
Article 1 Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution states, in part, “The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises,…”
Income taxes are legal under the Constitution because income taxes are INDIRECT taxes in a Constitutional sense.
In 1861, the first income tax law in the U.S. Was passed. In Springer v. United States, 102 U.S. 586 (1880) (A Supreme Court case), the court had to consider whether an income tax on an individual was constitutional. The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the income tax law that was in effect in 1865. You can read it at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/US/102/102.US.586.html
After the ratification of the 16th amendment, the Supreme Court in STANTON v. BALTIC MINING CO, 240 U.S. 103 (1916) stated, “…by the previous ruling it was settled that the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous COMPLETE AND PLENARY POWER OF INCOME TAXATION POSSESSED BY CONGRESS FROM THE BEGINNING from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged…”
The book, “The Law that Never Was” by Bill Benson has been completed refuted. Also, no court has EVER accepted any of the arguments brought forth in that book. Here is a court case that discussed the book. In U.S. V. Thomas, 788 F.2d 1250 (7th Cir. 1986), cert. Den. 107 S.Ct. 187 (1986). You can read it at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/788/788.F2d.1250.85-2120.html
The Federal Reserve act was properly passed by Congress and does not require a Constitutional amendment. While the Federal Reserve Act was passed on Dec. 23, 1913, according to the Congressional record, the bill passed the house by a count of 298 to 60. 358 members voted out of 435, that’s pretty good attendance. That’s probably better attendance than the current House of Representative gets on most days. The Senate passed the bill with a vote of 43 to 25. That’s 68 members voted out of 96. Again, that is good attendance.
The quote by Woodrow Wilson that the film says he made in 1919 is false. First, there is no record anywhere that Woodrow Wilson said the first part of that quote. The rest of the quote is taken from Woodrow Wilson’s book, “The New Freedom”. However, “The New Freedom” was published in 1913! Also, the book is actually a compilation of speeches he made on the campaign trail during 1911 and 1912. He was really discussing corporate monopolies and not the Federal Reserve (which didn’t exist yet) or the banks. You can read “The New Freedom” for yourself at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14811
The Federal Reserve is independently audited every year. Those audits and more are part of the Federal Reserve annual report to Congress.
Http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/rptcongress/annual06/default.htm
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/rptcongress/annual06/sec6/c3.htm
Look at all I have written refuting many points in the movie, “Freedom to Fascism” and that’s only the first five minutes of it.
BTW, Sherry Peel Jackson, one of the people interviewed in the movie was tried for willful failure to file and tax evasion on Oct. 29 and 30, 2007. GUILTY on all counts. Sentencing was on February 14, 2008 and she was sentenced to 4 years in prison. Additionally, SHE STILL HAS TO PAY HER TAXES.
A few people have successfully beaten criminal charges, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a law any more than O.J. Simpson’s acquittal means there isn’t a law concerning the murder of your ex-wife.
