Is federal income tax legal? Where is the law? I guarantee no one can find it!!?

Do you know who Ed and Elaine Brown are? They have boycotted income tax ....the courts could not find where this is legal tax. Gas taxes pay for our roads, local taxes pay for education, and corporate tax pays for the military. Our government operated just fine for its first 200 years WITHOUT an income tax. Then later the income tax was needed to support the brilliant idea of government taking loans from the private Federal Reserve that can print money out of thin air and then charge our government billions in interest on the money when our government has Constitutional Authority to tender its own money interest free. We need Ron Paul, that is why he wants to abolish the fed and IRS.

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1. the people should have legal rights to see where those funds go and why, the same with these people that collect funds for other uses, cancer,heart,lungs,food,housing,electric,gas, have you really ever seen where those funds go? And why are they not their when people need them?. Why so many turn aways?.
2. You are absolutely right.
3. I have just taxed you 2 points.
4. 16th amendment And your math is off. It was 137 years, not 200.
5. There is a law, and try NOT paying your taxes! There have been many US Supreme Court cases on this issue alone, and they never said their was no law! The government doesn't tender it's own money as inflation goes through the roof! Much of it is codified by Federal and state RULES which carry the same weight as law.!
6. Believing the income tax is illegal and then refusing to pay will land you in jail. The 16th amendment to the US Constitution gives Congress the power to assess an income tax, which they did. The law is found in article 26 of the United States Code. It is tempting to believe the hype of the uneducated and pocket the money that should pay your income tax. But eventually all tax protestors fall to goverment prosecution. Don't let it happen to you.
7. That sticky little law (copied below) enacted by the GOP right after Teddy Roosevelt busted the corporate trusts and retired.. U.S. Constitution: Sixteenth Amendment The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
8. It's in the constitution. It's legal. Ron Paul is a nut.
9. it is in my pocket
10. Unfortunately, the income tax is legal -- under a certain interpretation of the Sixteenth Amendment. I like your ideas, but I'm not sure I like most of Ron Paul's.
11. I don't like paying taxes either but it is what makes most citizens of this country in the top 1% of the world in terms of wealth and lifestyle, Ed Brown is a looney as for finding a law you really dont have to since there is an amendment to the constitution number sixteen. Did you ever hear the term No taxation without representation? Well every tax on the books was put there by elected officials. http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/Income_tax
12. Yes, it is legit, it just doesn't apply to most Americans. Do you know how the fraud works should be a better question. I think I will post that one?
13. actually you have to think. When was the consitution passed? When was the 16th amendment added? Was it unconstitutional?
14. My grandfather was charged with sedition and tried before he United States senate for his firm stance against the Federal Reserve system. One of the most brilliant orators of his time, with 30 million followers (in 1930 America), he made the same point you do: The U.S. Consitution grants authority to Congress to print money without any restriction or borrowing. William Jennings Bryant (the "Great Commoner") also lead a movement to invoke that constitutional provision (read his "Cross of Gold" speach). Both Bryant and my grandfather after him were soundly defeated by the people who profit from the Fed. Every other constitutional democracy in the world prints money without incurring debt as do most other nations (except in the Third-World where they haven't caught on to how the game ought to be played), regardless of their politics. This Ron Paul people seem to be talking so much about--for all his "the Constition says" malarkey, has failed to bring this up. Does anyone wonder why? Side note: Grandpa defended himself before the Senate was acquitted of all charges--the only private person to have been subjected to a Senate trial in the 20'th century.
15. I think you answered your own question. Thank you for bringing this up. People need to wake up and smell the coffee. I am also glad you brought up the Federal Reserve. There is nothing "federal" about the Federal Reserve. Many of the founding fathers were vehemently against having a centralized bank. The the founding fathers did not choose to have a centralized bank. The Fed came about in the early 1900's if I remember correctly. The value of our US Dollars could be in jeopardy with the Fed printing way too many of them. The Congressional Republicans want the Fed to print more dollars to fund the war and the Dems on the other side of the aisle want the Fed to do the same for more social programs, meanwhile the dollars in your pocket are worth less and less.
16. For all of you who claim that the 16th amendment give the power to tax income - let me correct you. 1. The supreme Court: the highest court in the land that cannot be appealed against said: "the 16th amendment give the government no new powers of taxation." 2. The constitution also says that no direct unapportion tax may be levied against the people at any time. Federal income tax is a direct unapportioned tax. 3. The 16th amendment never received enough votes from the states to be ratified, therefore it is not actually a legal amendment. This HAS been ruled on and decided by the supreme court. So, once again - show legal evidence that supports the income tax. Lower court decisions MUST legally fall in line with the supreme court, those that don't are acting illegally and don't count. Wake up and smell the fascism people.