Plain Facts About Income Tax Many Don't Want You to Know
What you’re going to see proven in the compilation below is that:
1). The income tax is an excise;
2). Excise taxes are taxes on privilege;
3). The preceding facts about the income tax cannot change, because a tax on UN-privileged activities (or the gains therefrom) is a capitation or other direct tax, and the Constitution prohibits capitations and other direct taxes (other than by apportionment); and
4). The prohibition on unapportioned capitations and other direct taxes has never changed, even by action of the Sixteenth Amendment.
Then we’ll follow with some discussion of what these facts mean and why this is all very important to you and your kids. Here we go:
1). The tax is an excise:
“[The] tax upon gains, profits, and income [is] an excise or duty, and not a direct tax, within the meaning of the constitution, and its imposition [is] not, therefore, unconstitutional.”
United States Supreme Court, Springer v. U. S., 102 U.S. 586 (1880) (as summarized in Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan & Trus ...