THE TRUTH ABOUT
THE INCOME TAX
by
Peter Hendrickson
March
6, 2014
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when
his salary depends on him not understanding it."
- Upton Sinclair
THE
TRUTH ABOUT THE INCOME TAX revealed in 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating
Truth About Taxation In America' (CtC) is NOT a matter of opinion,
interpretation, speculation or fancy.
CtC
presents a simple syllogistic progression based entirely on easily-verified,
indisputable facts.
The
facts involved in CtC's framework can be called "legal facts"
perhaps, since they pertain to legal proceedings, relations and claims of
various kinds. But this does not mean that any of these facts are matters of
some legal interpretation. Instead, these core facts are simple, concrete
realities entirely unreachable by judicial construction, opinion or
interpretation.
Because
the core realities upon which CtC is founded are the bedrock that they are, any
and all efforts to deny the book's revelations end up being exercises in
misrepresentation, distortion and dissembling, as well as graduate-level
examples of how to take material out of context either in a deliberate effort
to deceive or out of a simple failure to understand that context.
CtC's
revelations are not disputed in these exercises-- they are creatively evaded,
often by world-class twisters holding office precisely because of their skills
at deception and evasion. This is true whether the denial effort is that of
a judge, an attorney or an anonymous troll on a website.
All
such efforts, though, however creative and however shamelessly mendacious,
founder on the rock-hard core facts.
HERE
ARE SOME OF THOSE FACTS (and please follow the links provided to see the
proofs):
Fact:
The United States Constitution prohibits capitations and other direct taxes,
except when laid according to the rule of apportionment.
Fact:
The Sixteenth Amendment does not repeal or modify these constitutional
provisions-- it does not mention either of them at all, nor makes any claim to
cause any such repeal or modification. Further, the US Supreme Court has said
repeatedly that the amendment has no such effect.
Fact:
"Capitations and other direct taxes" are taxes "raised on the
capital or revenue of the people", with "capitations" in
particular being taxes laid on: "all that comes in"; "every
different species of revenue"; "the fortune or revenue of each
contributor"; "the [common-meaning] wages of labour"; "what
is supposed to be one's fortune [per] an assessment which varies from year to
year"; or "[an assessed percentage] of [one's] supposed
[commonly-defined] income".
Fact:
The "income tax" is not laid according to the rule of apportionment.
Inescapable
consequence of the indisputable facts above: What is [lawfully] taxed under
the unapportioned "income tax" does not and cannot reach "the
capital or revenue of the people"; "all that comes in";
"every different species of revenue"; "the fortune or revenue of
each contributor"; "the [common-meaning] wages of labour";
"what is supposed to be one's fortune [per] an assessment which varies
from year to year"; or "[an assessed percentage] of [one's] supposed
[commonly-defined] income".
Instead,
the unapportioned "income tax" necessarily can involve only a
subclass of revenue distinguished from "the capital or revenue of the
people" and "every species of revenue" by a definite,
specialized and limiting characteristic. Further, it cannot be on anything
which makes the tax EFFECTIVELY reach undistinguished revenue.
WHAT'S
MORE -
Fact:
The "income tax" is a federal excise.
Fact:
The subject of the "income tax" excise cannot be-- de jure or de
facto-- the unprivileged, common generation, receipt, possession or
transmission of capital or revenue. Were it so laid, the tax would be a
capitation and would require apportionment, and be unlawful if, and to the
degree it had been, administered otherwise.
Fact:
Excise-subjects involve the exercise of privilege.
Fact:
Everything specifically described in the tax law as subject to the tax is
distinguished from the broad class of all similar things by being involved with
the exercise of a federal privilege.
Inescapable
consequence of the indisputable facts above: Federal excises are taxes on the
gainful exercise of a privilege granted by the federal government (which has,
by virtue of its contribution to the gains through the granting of the
privilege, a legitimate claim to a piece of the action).
NOTE: The cognitive failure suffered by most folks who
have difficulty grasping the true nature of the tax is to mistakenly imagine
that the term "income" appearing in tax law and in judicial
consideration of the tax must have the "unspecialized, all revenue that
comes in" meaning of the commonly-used word (and to therefore struggle to
harmonize with this meaning all else found in the law, such as
by imagining to see "also" in places where it doesn't actually appear).
The reality is that in the context of the tax,
"income" (and related terms and provisions) have-- and can have--
only the limited, nuanced meanings by which the tax is able to conform to the
foregoing immutable facts.
The following little syllogism illustrates this:
· A tax that reaches unspecialized revenue is a
capitation.
· If the income tax reached unspecialized revenue, the
tax would be a capitation and would have to be apportioned.
· The tax is not apportioned (and is an excise).
· Therefore the income tax CANNOT lawfully reach
unspecialized revenue, and MUST reach only specialized revenue (and only in a
fashion suited to an excise).
It is with those conformant meanings and requirements
in mind that the rest of the law must be considered and construed.
Unsurprisingly, once this cognitive glitch is overcome, every single thing about
the tax becomes startlingly clear and rational; more, with "income"
construed as the core facts require, everything about the tax harmonizes fully
with our founding principles, as well.
***
I'M TOLD THAT A FEDERAL TAX COURT JUDGE issued a
"memorandum" just last week in which he spends 31 pages attacking me and
railing against CtC!
I'm just guessing, but I'll bet that's about 5 times as much writing as the
average entire judicial output in the disposition of a case.
We can all be heartened by this extraordinary
effort. Like others of its kind, this sweaty exercise is indicative of
just how profoundly dangerous to its "ignorance-tax" gravy-train the
state recognizes CtC to be-- because of
how right the state actually recognizes CtC to be (as is proven for the [a X 10,000th] time by this week's Real
American Heroes honored further down this page). Eventually, even the sleeping
media is going to wake up and start reading between these lines.
Interestingly, CtC wasn't even in evidence in the case in
which this remarkable judicial agitation displays itself. The verbose judge
apparently just decided to use his ruling in the case as an occasion to make a
name for himself within his little special-interest world, like a 17th Century
priest including a screed against Copernicus in his Sunday sermon.
I probably don't need to mention where this guy's
salary comes from...
"First, they ignore you, then
they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-Mahatma Gandhi
“All truth passes through three
stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it
is accepted as self-evident.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer
If You Have,
Aren't You Really, Really Glad YOU'VE
Taken Control Of How Much Of YOUR Money Washington Gets To Spend, Just
As The Founders Intended?
If You Haven't, ARE YOU CRAZY??!!
Seriously! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??
LEARN the
liberating, empowering, critically-important truth about the 16th Amendment and the
liberating, empowering, critically-important truth about the "income"
tax. STOP merely reading (or writing) about how bad things are and START DOING
SOMETHING ABOUT IT!
“Most of the important things in the world have been
accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope
at all.”
‑Dale Carnegie
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