Marzutra, just curious, but did you convert (you said you were raised Christian)?
Regarding the income tax, why does the man have to "barricade himself in his home" if it is all fine and dandy to not file. Obviously the IRS comes after the people who don't file..... What would happen if you or I just did not file this year? Wouldn't they break in and clean house?
A Jewish family that threw off their Judaism, Jewishness and embraced political correctness due to small town Christian anti-Semitism. If that answers your first question.
It is not fine and dandy to not pay income tax. As a matter of fact there are cases where people who saught to challenge the government on this issue with intention of alerting the masses to this corruption, was totally distroyed by the arm of the Federal Government. First they sent in the IRS. Knowing that these people were legally correct they soon sent in the DEA and raided the home on suspected "drug/narcotics" charges. Then it became an entire convoluted legal battle between the framed citizens and the Federal Government which was a long drawn out and bankrupting process...
It is a very murkey subject in all honesty that is highly protected by the Federal Government Establishment. Income Tax was repeatedly found to be unconstitutional but the elitists have found a way around this during a time coinciding with another unconstitutional establishment: The Federal Reserve banking system/entity, to which Ron Paul was spot on... The IRS does come after people who do not pay income tax as being a form of pressure onto the individual citizen from the arm of the police state. There are a handful of landmark cases where people have taken the Federal government to court over this issue and have won. The fact that one can go down and view, not only the constitution itself but State tax laws to see that there is no law requiring one to file income tax forms. Sure there may be some law that says "you must pay income tax" but without any law requiring the filing of the income tax form negates the latter....
If you did not file, you'd receive a letter. If you did not file for 2-5 years they'd send an IRS agent. Pending they did send an IRS agent your response would be to say "I want to speak to my attorney". Then the IRS cannot do squat. The attorney will scan the tax legislation and see that there is no law requiring the submission of an income tax form. I believe it is the W2 form.
In Canada, for example, the Income Tax, like the States, was supposed to be a temporary measure to finance the deficit for the operations of WW1. WW2 came along so they kept it in to recapture the losses expended on funding the European campaign to which it was supposed to be repudiated when the debt was paid.
The fact that it was never repealed is solely a political abomination.
Further, if one cares to delve into factually correct specificity one will find that Marx both within his Das Kapital and Communist Manifesto called for a graduated income tax system....
Topic: For US citizens: Do you pay income tax and why? (Read 13371 times)