"just got back from the Amish country"
What took you so long did the cart breakdown, or the horse go lame?
Richard wrote,
"The word "Income" is never defined in the law"
Right on the nail. Nor is ?'wage'
"(a) General definition:
Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, gross income means all income from whatever source derived, including (but not limited to) the following items:"
What kind of law is that, "but not limited to"?
What....Anything we say it is?
Jefferson said it best:
"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the
people fear the government, you have tyranny."
Are you afraid of the IRS?
The IRS contacted Clubb Spa and Pool, a company in Keller, Texas, just northwest of Dallas, that had stopped withholding in accordance with the provisions of the law. The IRS wanted to send a couple of auditors to review their books and records. On the appointed day five people showed up, three of them conspicuously carrying guns. When asked by company owner, Teri Clubb, who the armed men were, they refused to disclose their identities.
The company called 911, police officers arrived who told the agents they'd have to identify themselves or leave. The IRS group left, still (except for one auditor) refusing to give identities.
If revenue officers are authorized by law (Code section 7608) to conduct only civil enforcement of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms regulations, and the Criminal Investigation Division only authorized to investigate income tax matters involving U.S. citizens residing in foreign countries and non-resident aliens with U.S. income (Internal Revenue Manual chapter 1100), one wonders just what was going on, and under what authority.
Employers have noted that in Texas, as in most states, garnishment of wages (which is what withholding is, if done without the employees permission) requires a court order. In Texas, it is even written into the state constitution, as well.
This whole incident seems to resemble the old Brown Shirt intimidation tactics of Nazi Germany. But the owner of one company said, in effect: "This is America. Don't show us your guns; show us your authority."
Back to the term ?'Income':Despite the latest tirade from Parados;
Is the term "income" defined in the IRC and, if not, where is it defined?
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled that the term "income" is not defined anywhere in the IRC: "The general term ?'income' is not defined in the Internal Revenue Code." U.S. v. Ballard, 535 F.2d 400, 404 (8th Circuit, 1976).
Moreover, in Mark Eisner v. Myrtle H. Macomber, 252 U.S. 189 (1920), the high Court told Congress it could not legislate any definition of "income" because that term was believed to be in the U.S. Constitution. The Eisner case was predicated on the ratification of the 16th amendment, which would have introduced the term "income" into the U.S. Constitution for the very first time (but only if that amendment had been properly ratified).
In Merchant's Loan & Trust Co. v. Smietanka, 255 U.S. 509 (1921), the high Court defined "income" to mean the profit or gain derived from corporate activities. In that instance, the tax is a lawful excise tax imposed upon the corporate privilege of limited liability, i.e. the liabilities of a corporation do not reach its officers, employees, directors or stockholders.
Next on the agenda:
The historical fraud that is the foreign owned FED.
