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msimon@xta.com (M. Simon) wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:35:17 -0600, Jim Manson <Jim@Manson.com> wrote:
>
>>"Liberty For ALL!" <liberty4all@bignet.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>agent86x@my-deja.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> In article <3A19C24E.1A6A9886@bignet.net>,
>>>>   "Liberty For ALL!" <liberty4all@bignet.net> wrote:
>>>> > Did you read Joe Bannister's report (one guy mentioned in the 3 page
>>>> article) in PDF at:
>>>>
>>>> Did you not understand that Joe Bannister is still paying his income
>>>> taxes?
>>>
>>>If the system is voluntary and self-assesment (as commisioners have
>>>said), that is the individual's choice -- of course.
>>
>>They've never said that paying income taxes is voluntary and that
>>argument has been rejected by every single court for the past 30 years
>>that has heard it.
>>
>>They term "voluntary self assessment" simply mean that people
>>determine their own tax and send it in without having a bill sent to
>>them. If they don't do so then a bill is sent and the tax is
>>collected.
>>
>>Since you seem to be hung up on citing statutes, care to show me one
>>single statute that says that the payment of taxes is voluntary?
>
>The tax is mandatory for those who owe it and voluntary for those that
>don't.

Lovely non-sequiter.

>
>Read at    http://www.taxgate.com   what happened in 1942.

Why would I pay attention to something that's simply wrong?
There's an unsupported statement that the income tax started in 1942.
Big deal.

Income tax existed far earlier than 1942 for individuals. 

The stupidity in the paragraph prior to that one points out how silly
the whole page is.