Again, this is not meant for anyone to go out and not pay taxes, but instead take a look at how our system works. It is severely flawed right now, but we can all do something about it. Fight to get fairtax put in place, and fight to have the federal reserve system abolished.
If you tell people they don't have to pay taxes, what are you advocating, other than that they do not pay taxes?
It's not true that Internal Revenue Code is unconstitutional. It's an internal code of the government rather than a law, so it doesn't have to be constitutional. It is not constitutional, but not unconstitutional, if you wish. The problem is that it's being misapplied to general population. Internal code is only relevant to federal employees and people who receive income from government enterprises. I don't want to discourage you, but I'd be careful following various 'tax protester' arguments, most of them have been defeated in court many times. When you applied for SSN, you agreed to give up your common law rights, including 'innocent until proven guilty'. In tax court, you are guilty until proven innocent, and if you have SSN you better know Internal Revenue Code inside and out (which is tough considering that it's about 3 million words). Unless you feel confident that you can prove in court that I.R.C. doesn't apply to you, the only reliable way to keep IRS away is get rid of your SSN , which will keep tax court from gaining jurisdiction over you
Ok, so if the Fed is abolished, that means the Federal Open Market Committee will disappear with it. Tell me then, who is exactly is going to be in charge of the monetary policy? Who is going to be in charge of the open market operations? Who is going to make decisions as to what the target for Federal Funds Rate ought to be? Who is going to adjust the Reserve requirements? Who is going to watch out for inflation?
You don't think they would appoint a group to oversee such things? The problem now is the fact that the federal reserve system is NOT part of the government. It is privatized. The system needs some work, that is all. The banks have FAR too much control over everything as it stands now.
You need to go back to ECON101. It's no secret that private banks are part of the structure of the Federal Reserve System. In fact, most of the money in our economy is created by commerical banks (this is no secret either), and this is precisely the reason why the Federal Reserve System exists: to influence decisions made by individual banks in order to control inflation. Do you understand?
No, about 14 million people don't have it. IRS hates it, because SSN is what gives the tax court jurisdiction. Under common law, there is a number of reasons why their operation would fail, like the right not to testify against yourself for example (1040 form is a sworn testimony), or 'innocent until proven guilty', or 1st article. In tax court it's the other way around, the burden of proof is on you.
Yes, the government has a track record of spending our money more wisely than us mere mortals could ever hope to. A real fine job they are doing!
CPI itself is a useless index. You have to take GDP growth into consideration. To control inflation is not to eliminate it. If you do, the economy will be stagnant. There is a direct relationship between GDP and CPI.
Yeah, the economy didn't grow at all before inflation came into existence. In fact, we were still driving horse and buggies up until the 40s! Adjusted for inflation GDP? I know, to control inflation is to create it.
Is there really a need to ask this question? A growth in real GDP means that it has outpaced inflation. I'm sorry, but this really goes to show how little you know. If the Fed wanted to create inflation, they would not influence the target for the Federal Funds Rate in favor of reducing inflation. In addition, inflation existed before the Fed came along.
Well until you say real gdp I assumed you meant the nominal gdp. Also, the increase in real gdp does not take in to account the material standard of living increase during that period. A smaller amount of real income then may have been able to purchase the standard commodities available at the time. That is true, however the growth in the money supply is one of the major cause of inflation and this is controlled by the fed.