Is an individuals income "personal property" (not taxable) and is the 16th amendment abused by the IRS.

The 16th Amendment reads: 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. The Supreme Court defines "income tax", as an excise tax "imposed with respect to the doing of business in corporate form". With tax on property, gas, sales, heating, communications, cable, auto registration, inheritance, lottery winnings, capitol gains, home sales, home buying and even foreclosure the government is completely over taxing like never before. Question is, if the federal reserve bank is privately owned by anonymous individuals and corperations, why am I sending my money away without there being an accounting of how the tax collected is spent? Isn't this taxation without representation?

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1. The short answer is of course No. The tax is not laid on any of the assets you named, but rather on income derived from using them. It's an important difference. And your notion about the Federal Reseve Bank is off the wall.
2. It's like you took every little stupid lame argument against paying your taxes and squished them into one big stupid lame argument. Answers: The Federal Reserve is not owned by private corporations. Your tax money goes to the U.S. Treasury, not the Federal Reserve. Spending of your tax money is fully accounted for. No, it's not taxation without representation unless you happen to live in the District of Columbia. Stop whining and pay your taxes like everyone else.
3. All that you say may be true...but irrelevant. The way to look at taxes is not like they are your "fair share" of whatever pork-barrel projects the government can dream up...you have to look at it as the price that you have to pay to stay out of jail. On the bright side, at least we are not getting all the government that we are paying for...that would kill us all.
4. Support Americans for Fair Taxation and put an end to our ridiculous tax code. www.fairtax.org
5. The argument that wages is not taxable has not stood up in court. For more details on this arguments and the cited court cases, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_protester_constitutional_arguments#Taxing_labor_or_income_from_labor When you pay your taxes, you write your check to the IRS, an agency of the Treasury. You do not write it to the Federal Reserve. BTW, it would be wrong to say the Federal Reserve is wholly private. Though the branches resemble private corporates, it is run by the Board of Governors, a government agency with no mechanism for private ownership. Do some research beyond the income tax avoidance sites. Hate to see you lose your assets because you fell for this stuff.
6. There has been a few cases where it was determined that the IRS could not provide the actual law that requires you to pay federal income tax. See the film Freedom to fascism (On google video) where one is ruled on in favor of the defendant specifically because the IRS did not provide the legal president. There are also several Supreme court cases sited at the Cornell law library that have a baring on this hypothesis. Most Americans wouldn't try this because of the IRS's very aggressive seizure and prosecution policy, but there very well could be a reason they operate with such disregard. They use the ultimate big stick approach in hopes of bullying the citizens into submission and compliance. Even the police force doesn't use such tactics on criminals. The FBI even fears the IRS.