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Self-sacrifice is not synonymous with moral duty nor does it justify the accommodation of evil. The frivolous issue put forth and debated is whether or not the income tax is mandatory by law. No, it is not mandatory by law, but it is most definitely mandatory by force - police force. In the real world it does not matter what law requires. It matter what is required by force.
Our lives are dominated and consumed by the process and payment of taxes. It would be accurate to say that our existence is indexed to the tax system in America. Yet not one person in ten million has the monetary understanding that income taxes have absolutely nothing to do with the economic or financial support of the federal government.
The federal government does not need your income taxes to pay its bills. The income tax system (withholding) was inaugurated under the "crisis" of World War II in its present form. Before that time, not more than 1% of the American people paid any so-called tax on income. What did the government do for money all those years before World War II?
Modern money is numbers and abstraction. The government/central bank creates those numbers and "pay" the numbers, called dollars, for what it needs. The monetary system of the United States is regulated by the IRS income tax system. The IRS income tax system implies in the public mind that the IRS is collecting taxes to support the federal government and pay its expenses. This is not true but it serves as a disguise to hide the fraud.
What then is the IRS collecting? When you send your check to the IRS, the IRS then subtracts the numbers on your check from your checking account. In this action, the IRS is a regulator of your consumption. Your consumption of goods and services is reduced by the exact numbers. The fiat monetary system would not work without the regulation of your consumption. This essential function of the IRS is the reason that it is a system backed by police power.
Does the IRS spend your numbers (dollars) or send them to Washington as taxes? No, they disappear in the reverse manner that they were created. The more numbers that disappear, the more the government can create without causing price inflation.
When the IRS reduces your numbers, your consumption is effectively transferred to government consumption. The most revealing statement ever printed which describes the IRS system and reveals the fraud is that found in the book published in 1919 entitled "Economic Consequences of the Peace" by John Maynard Keynes. Lord Keynes is the darling of modern bankers, politicians and pseudo economists. Quote: "If government should refrain from regulation, (taxation) the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent and the fraud upon the people can be concealed no longer."
This statement clearly says that the income tax system covers the fraud that government prints its own money. THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT NEED YOUR NUMBERS (DOLLARS). IT CREATES ITS OWN IN UNLIMITED AMOUNTS. BUT THE PEOPLE MUST BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE PAYING TAXES ACCORDING TO "THEIR FAIR SHARE."