What if Income Taxes were voluntary?

“The income tax is, therefore, not a tax on income as such. It is an excise tax with respect to certain activities and privileges which is measured by reference to the income which they produce. The income is not the subject of the tax: it is the basis for determining the amount of the tax.” [U.S. Congressional Record, March 27, 1943 (page 2580)]

Those are the words of F. Morse Hubbard, a former legislative draftsman for the U.S. Treasury Department (one of those whose job it is to write tax statutes and regulations).

Many of you will be jumping into this article thinking this will be some sort of hypothetical question asked and answered. However what I will be discussing is that for the majority of people income taxes are in fact voluntary, and we have been being duped into thinking otherwise.

How can this be you ask? I know, I know, it seems far fetched especially with all of the media coverage when a high profile individual goes to jail for tax evasion. Well it all comes down to semantics and legal definitions. You the income tax code has been specifically written to be very confusing, referencing laws and statutes all over the place making research extremely difficult and frustrating. However there have been several people willing to do the research necessary to fully grasp what the so called "income tax" actually has the authority to tax. One such person that was instrumental in my awaking on this subject is a guy named Peter Eric Hendrickson. Peter has written a book called "Cracking the Code - The Fascinating Truth about Taxation in America"

What it all breaks down to is the words "income", "wages", "employer", "employee" all mean very specific things in relation to the tax code. These words that we use on a daily basis to describe our compensation as it relates to the business we conduct, have been given special meaning in the tax code. So when we file our tax forms we accept the meaning of these terms as the meaning we have been giving them in our conversations. However by doing this we are most of the time classifying the money we earn as taxable when in fact it is not, there by voluntarily paying income taxes.

So in the tax code "wages" & "income" mean compensation from earnings directly from the Government or from dividends earned from from direct investment in government corporations.

"Employees" work for Government or "employers" earning "income" and "wages".

This can seem very confusing at first but once it all sinks in it becomes perfectly clear.

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