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On The 100th Anniversary Of The Income Tax
by Mises Updates via The Circle Bastiat blog,
Woodrow Wilson signed the Income Tax into law one hundred years ago today. As direct taxation of Americans was prohibited by the Constitution, a constitutional amendment was necessary before what would become the Revenue Act of 1913 could be legally imposed. The income tax, and the enabling amendment, were sold to the voters as necessary for a tax on rich people that would mean lower taxes and cheaper goods (due to lowered tariffs) for everyone else.
Only one percent of the population was subject to the tax then, and the tax rate was one percent.
The voters need not worry, they were told, because regular people would never ever pay the income tax.
And while we are all feeling so good about taxes - here is brief history... (click image for immense legible version)
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When's the Corporate Tax First Anniversary?
I'm celebrating by not paying
The official start of the United Fascist States of America (U.F.A)
The government steals your money and a private institution made up of banks devalues it.
Corp/Fed started....in earnest....today.
Thank goodness everyone is paying attention to the misdirection (taxes) involved.
There isn't a right to form a government. Government exists through use of force.
Amendment XVI is not create direct taxation on income, but is to removal of apportionment = create regime of transfer payment. Is give AmeriKa politician, how do you say, slush fund, to buy vote on national level. Fiscal Rubicon is cross for AmeriKa.
http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-journal/1981...
... but what is Boris know?
Wilson is Moses to the Progressive movement. He laid the ground work for the present day welfare state and MIC. All of which would not have been possible without fractional reserve banking. Progressives have been saving the World ever since. We've also been at war ever since.
Woodrow T. Wilson is was delusional ivory tower idiot, tool for Rothschildren Central Bankster class.
And if he had a son, he would look like Barack H. Obama.
Sometime after corporations were invented.
Groupthink.
Your timeline ,and knowledge of history is wrong.
The first cooperations started in 14th century England.Companies also appeared around that time.
Somewhere along the the line (16th century)the word was contracted to corporation when
olde English was tidied up.
The first corporations were what are now referred to as city councils.
Hence the corporations of the City of London,Leeds,Manchester etc etc.Still their official titles.
Private corporations with limited liabiality first appered after the South Sea Bubble,also
in the UK.
That day will never come unfortunately.......
Wilson gave us the income tax and the fed. I'm glad he's dead.
100 years of treason.
Wilson was warned by many and was later quoted saying he regretted it after realizing what it had enabled:
Despite these warnings, Woodrow Wilson signed the 1913 Federal Reserve Act. A few years later he wrote: I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. 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 duress of a small group of dominant men. -Woodrow Wilson
I todla it hurts when they don't use lube, Woody.
Even more so, comes across as an alcoholic's later thought: "Seemed like a good idea t the time"
Fuck-wads
The "income tax" is nothing more than a commission paid to the Federal Reserve for the use of Federal Reserve Notes. Every time you cash a check, swipe your credit card and sign the slip, or even withdraw money from the bank, you are actually creating new Federal Reserve units as pre-approved and authorized by your signature. The IRS then bills you to collect the commission through the 1040 and related forms.
The 16th Amendment was merely official veneer applied to make it appear as if Americans were required to pay income taxes ("...the Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation..." (Stanton v Baltic Moning Co. 240 US 103, at
112 (1916)). It's such a powerful illusion, even when it is explained to people they still will refuse to believe it and will argue against you, because the other pillar of the illusion is the cannard that "we all have to pay our fair share".
I am Chumbawamba.
Paying is voluntary.They told us so repeatedly in January.
Harry Reid says that paying income tax is voluntary. That should be good enough for anyone (who thinks Harry Reid is even capable of telling the truth):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7mRSI8yWwg
He's not lying. Cyprus style bank account taxes are not voluntary.
chumba
Good post. Crazy, isn't it? Stockholm syndrome. People will actually argue in favor of their own slavery. Bizarre.
"Fair share." My ass.
Re: but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men
Ya gotta wonder if the scammers who bilked the government for building the various trans-continental railroads in the late 1800's would have had a chuckle at that statement.
Senators owned by railroads was pretty common in the late 1800's. Probably as common as senators owned by Big-Ag or Big-MIC now.
The problem with trans-continental railroad was John Galt.
Same for all his Democrat cronies.
And NO, Don't Even Think Of Getting Me Going On the Ohter Branch of the Very Same Party.
I wish we could bring him back....so we can beat the shit out of him
Just like the bastards did to William of Orange
http://www.usa-the-republic.com/revenue/true_history/Chap5.html
I am Chumbawamba.
Whatever....you assume that the Corp/Fed gives a fuck about laws and court rulings.
"We've got to FUCK you in the ass in order to find out what's in the law !"
Only if you bend over and let them. If so, lube up.
Me? I keep my pants on. If anyone's going to be doing the fucking, it's me.
I am Chumbawamba.
<Sigh>
You bent over when you pay (paid) your income taxes
You bent over when you pay your property taxes
You bent over when you pay (paid) payroll taxes
You bent over when you pay (paid) corporate taxes
You bent over when you pay (paid) sales taxes
You bent over when you pay (paid) interest on credit cards, bank loans, car loans, student loans, mortgages.
You bent over when you paid for your driver license
You bent over when you paid for insurance in order to be able to legally drive.
You bent over when you paid your title fee for your house, car...mayne a boat.
You bent over when you pay for your car tag, boat stamp, trailer tag, even a mobile home...if its on a trailer or even blocks.
You bent over when you pay late fees, phone line service fees, phone company taxes.
You bent over when you paid brokerage fees, transaction fees, origination fees, doc fees
You bent over when you pull out that cash or your ATM and pay with continually devalued money. I'm sure the sweat of your brow hasn't devalued....but the representation of it through currency sure has. You bent over when the Fed says....Thank you worker drone. But today your work is valued 30% percent less. Now go work harder.
Face it Chumba....you've bent over for so long and for so many reasons you don't even remember it all.
But hey....nice pants. And yes....you are fucking yourself if you believe you don't bend over....every....single.....fucking....day.
So...I don't pay any of that.
What else you got, Mr. Dippity Shit?
I am Chumbawamba.
So you're not a US citizen then is the only assumption left. Or would you care to explain how you avoid any and all of the common fees/taxes listed above, or do we just keep guessing? How very glib.
Most of these guys aren't. They are from Israel. Like this one.
What if you don't. You an ex-pat? Your're getting fucked somewhere over seas and you're bending over for their laws and rules too. And if you originally WERE a citizen you bent over until you got the fuck out.....to go bend over in another country and another language.
If you're still on Prison Planet.....then the NWO is fucking you bent over a barrel.
But hey.....whatever gets you through the night.
I was born and raised and continue to be domiciled here on California. I'm a native born American. I am one of the people.
You folks should actually take the time to read the laws, statutes and codes one of these days. Then you will understand.
I am Chumbawamba.
Chumba,
+ 1000 I am starting to read the laws. I am trying to become one of
the people.
Do not try to be what you already are. Just be.
-Chumblez.
Income in not taxable, only profits made from the income?
Or an additional hundred years of contrary law... directly holding people liable for taxes who contest the government's right to levy.
It only looks that way because you are inside the fish bowl yourself.
I am Chumbawamba.
Nefarious year. Not just revenue act & IRS, but Fed, 16th & 17th Amendments, sufferage marchers in DC, unionistas going apenuts in CA...it's all gone down hill since then!
Fuckers!!!
Re: Nefarious year.
Looks like the idea came up before 1894.
(Death and taxes, who said that?)
Yogi Bera?
Yea right, and I was born in zippitydoodah and raised in a cave by my mom who was a lion. My aunt lives in bayou la batre in a stilt house overlooking the swamp. She goes around all day saying 'boop boop boop, etc..' like she has tourettes.
50 years ago this past June was the anniversary of the supreme court upholding the ban on prayer in schools... another good idea that hasn't worked out...
just had lunch with my friend who sold an insurance policy to a man in 1976 with the promise that the policy would mature to $100,000 by retirement... He just cut him a check for just under $20,000... Another lie...
Re; another good idea that hasn't worked out
Unless you don't have Imaginary Friend OCD.
And Wilson, almost single-handedly got America into the First World War.
100 years of high treason.
Happy hour calleth.
And Wilson, almost single-handedly got America into the First World War.
100 years of high treason.
Happy hour calleth.
Elections have consequences
especially if they last more than 4 hours.
But candidates lie so much it's hard to tell what the consequences will be.
Being a government lover has consequences.
Politicians and bankers lied?
"Politicians and bankers lied?"
That is a given.
Politicians and bankers lied?
And freedom died.
If the dumbasses didn't pay taxes how could I be living comfortably off my Big-Gov Crony-Capitalist scam?
Survival of the fittest, bitchz!
Survival of the scummiest. A few generations/iterations later, it's all scum.
I want a giant sized poster of this to hang in my office !
off topic.
http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/03/ocare-weapon/
It is on like Donkey Kong.
WZ Exclusive: Are People In California Being Told To Turn In Their Guns To Get Obamacare?Even thuough Justice Roberts may have ruled in it's favor Obamacare may yet be illegal and removed in one fell swoop.
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/mar/31/obamacare-lawsuit-over-hea...
“Obamacare” looks increasingly inevitable, but one lawsuit making its way through the court system could pull the plug on the sweeping federal health care law.
A challenge filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation contends that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because the bill originated in the Senate, not the House. Under the Origination Clause of the Constitution, all bills raising revenue must begin in the House.
The Supreme Court upheld most provisions of the act in June, but Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. took pains in the majority opinion to define Obamacare as a federal tax, not a mandate. That was when the Sacramento, Calif.-based foundation’s attorneys had their “aha” moment.
“The court there quite explicitly says, ‘This is not a law passed under the Commerce Clause; this is just a tax,’” foundation attorney Timothy Sandefur said at a Cato Institute forum on legal challenges to the health care act. “Well, then the Origination Clause ought to apply. The courts should not be out there carving in new exceptions to the Origination Clause.”
The Justice Department filed a motion to dismiss the challenge in November, arguing that the high court has considered only eight Origination Clause cases in its history and “has never invalidated an act of Congress on that basis.”
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia is expected to rule on the Justice Department’s motion “any day now,” said Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Paul J. Beard.
The challenge citing the Origination Clause isn’t the only lawsuit against Obamacare, but it is the only one that has the potential to wipe out the entire act in one fell swoop. Other claims, notably the freedom-of-religion cases dealing with the birth control requirement, nibble at the fringes but would leave the law largely intact.
In their brief, attorneys for the Justice Department argue that the bill originated as House Resolution 3590, which was then called the Service Members Home Ownership Act. After passing the House, the bill was stripped in a process known as “gut and amend” and replaced entirely with the contents of what became the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
And the nitty gritty details.
Using H.R. 3590 as a “shell bill” may be inelegant, but it’s not unconstitutional, according to the government motion.
“This commonplace procedure satisfied the Origination Clause,” said the brief. “It makes no difference that the Senate amendments to H.R. 3590 were expansive. The Senate may amend a House bill in any way it deems advisable, even by amending it with a total substitute, without running afoul of the Origination Clause.”
The brief cites a number of cases in which courts upheld shell bills, but foundation attorneys counter that those rulings involved the Senate substitution of one revenue-raising bill for another.
“Here, by contrast, it is undisputed that H.R. 3590 was not originally a bill for raising revenue,” said the Pacific Legal Foundation lawsuit. “Unlike in the prior cases, the Senate’s gut-and-amend procedure made H.R. 3590 for the first time into a bill for raising revenue. The precedents the government cites are therefore inapplicable.”
The Justice Department also points out that the court has allowed revenue bills to originate in the Senate if the money raised was incidental to the bill’s mission.
The Affordable Care Act’s central purpose is to “improve the nation’s health care system,” and it fulfills that goal “through a series of interrelated provisions, many, if not most, of which have nothing to do with raising revenue,” said the government brief.
Mr. Sandefur disagrees. “What kinds of taxes are not for raising revenue?” he asked.
Legal opinion on the matter is split. Randy Barnett, a Georgetown University Law Center professor, said in an article for the Volokh Conspiracy that, “[I]f any act violates the Origination Clause, it would seem to be the Affordable Care Act.”
But Yale Law School professor Jack M. Balkin said the Obama administration has legal precedent on its side, although the lawsuit “may nevertheless become plausible if enough prominent people get behind it and vouch for it.”
“And then, perhaps, Chief Justice Roberts, given a second chance, will change his mind — again,” Mr. Balkin said in an essay for The Atlantic.
Legal scholars agree on one point: The courts haven’t seen the last of lawsuits against Obamacare.
“The Supreme Court’s ruling last June was only the end of the beginning as far as Obamacare litigation is concerned,” Cato Institute senior fellow Ilya Shapiro said at the February forum. “The more we read and the more regulations are promulgated, the more constitutional and other defects are found.”
Yeah, roberts will change his mind about the same time that those skeletons in his closet couldn't ever hurt him... I wouldn't hold my breath.
The IRS to collect for the banksters and the Federal Reserve Act 1913 for complete bankster control of the US currency.
May Woodrow Wilson burn in hell.
... with a red-hot poker jammed up his rectum.
More... http://www.mind-trek.com/practicl/tl16a.htm
The Bankruptcy of the United States (United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303)
http://www.afn.org/~govern/bankruptcy.html
"with all U.S. debt interest specified to be paid to the Federal Reserve only in Gold."
If true, then this would make all the re-hypothication of gold make sense. Plus the fact that said physical gold has apparently been moved to 'deep underground storage' somewhere.
Classic three card-monti scam that was set up to extract and capture all the physical gold.
That site is blocked at my work on grounds I have never seen displayed before:
"Militancy and Extremism"
Please add the Obamacare Tax to Obama's 35%.
OT the Fed stole my silver back in 2007 w/o redress nor return of stolen property.
Don't think they won't do the same to you if you happen to get in their sights, which is becoming more common as the beast is on it's last breath.
"Can the government use civil forfeiture to take your money when you have done nothing wrong—and then pocket the proceeds? The IRS thinks so.
For over 30 years, Terry Dehko has successfully run a grocery store in Fraser, Mich., with his daughter Sandy. In January 2013, without warning, the federal government used civil forfeiture to seize all of the money from the Dehkos’ store bank account (more than $35,000) even though they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong. Their American Dream is now a nightmare.
Federal civil forfeiture law features an appalling lack of due process: It empowers the government to seize private property from Americans without ever charging, let alone convicting, them of a crime. Perversely, the government then pockets the proceeds while providing no prompt way to get a court to review the seizure.
On September 25, 2013, Terry and Sandy teamed up with the Institute for Justice to fight back in federal court. A victory will vindicate not just their right to be free from abusive forfeiture tactics, but the right of every American not to have their property wrongfully seized by government."
http://ij.org/miforf
oh, happy anniversary, not
They need to switch banks probably... it's likely someone ratted them out from their local bank... I'd also suspect that the government has more proof up its sleeve than their deposit records, whether or not it's admissible is another issue, but it's their ass if they don't have more a basis than that... in the majority of courts around the country.
As direct taxation of Americans was prohibited by the Constitution, a constitutional amendment was necessary before what would become the Revenue Act of 1913 could be legally imposed.
There will never be another constitutional amendment.
They can do whatever they want right now.
Peter Schiff: My Dad is a Patriot, a Political Prisoner in Jail For His Beliefs Who Stood Up for His Constitutional Rights
Irwin Schiff on the Biggest Con and the Federal Mafia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1TCNLeUZ1U
The courts silenced this man for uncovering the fact that the 16th was never ratified lawfully.
Fucking treasonous politicians, lawyers and bankers have ruined this former Constitutional Republic.
http://thelawthatneverwas.com/
Here's another law that never was or, rather, a Supreme Court ruling that never was identifying corporations as people when the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the 14th Amendment were meant to protect the rights of natural persons, not artificial persons like corporations, but very unfortunately for us, didn't explicitly state that:
Unequal Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and theft of human rights
http://www.amazon.com/Unequal-Protection-Corporate-Dominance-Rights/dp/1579549551/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380919028&sr=1-2&keywords=Unequal+Protection
One chapter excerpt:
http://www.thomhartmann.com/unequal-protection/excerpt-theft
So, combine the income tax which just "coincidentally" appeared at the very same time the Federal Reserve appeared with this false "corporations are people" Supreme Court non-precedent which never happened eventually giving corporations "free speech rights" with "campaign contributions" being equal to "speech" which allows them to simply buy governments and you end up with exactly what we have today - a complete facade of democracy as a front for crony capitalism and historically unprecedented transfers of unearned wealth.
Oligarchical collectivism.
+1000. A far more accurate term than those "socialism" vs "fascism" debates that derail many a thread here.
I think its more useful to describe the situation today, because the global totalitarians of today have learned from their national totalitarian predecessors, and combined elements of both.
Woodrow Wilson = Princeton.....
anyone know another Treasonist asshole from fucking Princeton ???
Wilson had to pass the act so he could see what was in it. /s
Funny how this is getting zero mainstream press, huh?
Even if it did the audience at this point is comfortably numb.
Just legalize marijuana nationally and repeal this obamacare bullshit. You will get your revenue that way.
Can't do that. Big Pharma would go out of business.
While others before him wounded it, Wilson single handedly destroyed our Constitutional Republic with the 16th, 17th, and the Federal Reserve act. The essence of the Constitution clearly intended NO direct involvment with the People by the Feds, except through the States proportionally. If the Feds taxed the States, and the States had representation in Congress, most of the "money-go-round" problems we suffer under today would vanish. Wilson was undoubtedly the worst President ever.
In my book, it's between him and Lincoln.
Wilson for the financial dictatorship, Lincoln for the military one.
When you pay your income tax to the IRS, the money [your sweat and labor] gets deposited in the Federal Reserve System - a cartel of private banks. Nice, isn't it? Hang the fuckers....
Remember... For every Schemer & Scammer, there are other players: the Enabler(s), the Patsy, the Sheep.
Wilson was a willing Enabler. Key Enabler. The Congressmen who voted for it (before they were against it) were the Patsies. The Useful Tools. May they all rot in Hell. Were such a place to exist.
The toll for a toll road is never lifted - long after the road has been paid for 20 times over.
Once a revenue stream is generated it never goes away - like a leech latched onto the skin.
The real history of the Tax code and the IRS is documented in the book : Kicking the Dragon: Confessions of a Tax Heretic by Larken Rose
http://www.amazon.com/Kicking-Dragon-Confessions-Tax-Heretic/dp/0977783421
Feather River Bulletin 1/25/12 Community Perspective
“Who owns our national parks?” by Lynn DesJardin Plumas-Sierra Tea Party Patriots
Think the US Forest Service is alone in its unconstitutional land grabs and denying US citizens access to our national forests? Heard those weird stories of “eminent domain” being imposed for shopping malls? Jaws dropped, eyes popped, foreheads wrinkled at a recent Plumas-Sierra Tea Party Patriots meeting when it was said that the United Nations, not the United States, owns/controls many of our national parks and sites.
Think not? From The National center for Public Policy Research, June 2000, Publication No. 294, by John K. Carlisle, director of The National Center for Public Policy Research’s Environmental Policy Task Force:
“A U.N. World Heritage Site is an internationally protected landmark of historical, cultural or natural significance that the U.S. government pledges the world body it will protect. When the U.S. signed the 1972 World Hertitage Treaty…the U.S. legally obligated itself to maintain our national treasures in accordance with standards set by the U.N., not the U.S. The U.S. has also dedicated millions of acres of American land to U.N. Biosphere Reserves. …A Biosphere Reserve is an area set aside for conservation and scientific study, which the U.S. promises to manage according to U.N. standards.”
This, folks, is the European theory of land use, where kings and monoarchs owned the land and the people were only allowed to use it at the rulers’ discretion. All of it flies in the face of our Constitution and the concept of private land ownership. And guess what? The executive branch of the U.S. government can select any site without congressional approval and political advocacy groups can petition the U.N. independently without informing the local populace. From citizenreviewonline.org
1. The preamble to the U.N. Conference on Human Settlements, land use section, says: “Land…cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market….Public control of land use is therefore indispensable.”
2. The U.S. State Department entered into an agreement with UNESCO in 1979 to launch a U.S. Man and the Biosphere Program. Congress was not consulted, nor was any state legislature consulted, as 47 U.N. Biosphere reserves were quietly designated in the United States.
3. The administration adopted an Ecosystem Management Policy, and used the Antiquities Act to designate “monuments,” so expansive as to give government control of land well beyond the so-called monument. The “Roadless Initiative” and the effect of removing people from wilderness areas by denying access.
4. The “Clean Water Initiative” gave the federal government jurisdiction over private lands adjacent to streams, broadening the scope of the earlier “wetland” policy. Heritage designations, conservation easements and “open space” are now favorite tools used to expand government control of land use.
5. “Critical Habitat,” authorized under the Endangered Species Act, has become a favorite device for government control of private property. Nearly 2,000 species have been listed as endangered or threatened; government has only to declare an area to be “critical” to the species, then the government can dictate how the land may be used. (Note: in the Central Valley of California the federal government has shut off the water to protect the smelt, causing extremely high unemployment and bankrupting many farmers.)
6. The Forest Service is actively developing “corridors” to connect wilderness areas. All of these measures work together to achieve the original goal of the Man and the Biosphere Program: to conserve most of the planet for wildlife, forcing people into “sustainable communities.” This objective has now been codified into international law in the form of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
7. The Transformation of America is well under way, without public debate, or congressional approval. From watershed, to ecosystem, to village, to city, to multicounty regions, to transboundary biospheres—the U.N. agenda is being systematically implemented—with the help of elected officials, paid for with the taxes of American citizens.
One can argue the merits of conservation, biodiversity, saving the planet, clean water and air, preservation of wildlife, et al. Nevertheless, who gave permission for our Constitution to be vandalized and control of U.S. land/properties turned over to the U.N.? And why is the American taxpayer on the hook for so much of the cost worldwide?
How do we save our country from being chopped into pieces to satisfy a “world body” that “sets standards” we don’t get to choose (or even know about), or at least give Americans the opportunity to exercise their constitutional rights in the use of our country’s resources? Ever-vigilant citizens must educate themselves on these land grabs and hold their local, state and national representatives accountable. You can only protect your Constitution and rights if you fight for them. Stay informed and question with boldness.
Our Founding Fathers must be turning in their graves!
#5. Well that explains Stockton, Merced, and Fresno: screwed up towns (& Meth Havens) in an especially scrwed up state in an ever more screwed country.
The 16th amendment enabled the United State_ to directly rob the citizens of the several states, then use this "federal money" to puppeteer the state legislatures. The framers of our constitution knew that any direct unapportioned federal tax would undermine "federalism," the balance of power between the sovereign states and the monster they created, which was the intent behind Article 1, Section 9 - No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken. The 17th amendment made sure there would be opposition to federal control from the states' U.S. Senators, who previously were elected by the legislatures of the states.
From the infographic:
Because I'm stupid and lazy, and I don't want to go through inflation statistics, I will do this the easy way.
$35 dollars = 1 troy ounce of gold in 1960
US$ 91M = 2,600,000 toz
2,600,000 toz x US$ 1,300 = US$ 3.38 billion dollars
Ok...now calculate per capita.... legal US taxpayers.
Woodrow Wilson is in the inner circle of Hell. The countless lives he has caused to be murdered, starved, and impoverished. The evil he unleashed on the world is unspeakable. May he burn in Hell for eternity.