But if one works a full time job for an employer, doesn't that employer report your earnings to the IRS?
Yes, but so what? They report what they paid you, but that doesn't make you liable for anything. You can go ahead and file a report, but what I'm trying to say is that you can exercise your right to not have your taxes withheld upfront. The only reason that is done (in my opinion) is so that when people go to file their tax report, they are asking for their money back because they overpaid. So instead of the "tax bill" being a literal bill that comes out of your pocket, you are incentivized to file in order to get a refund. If you prepay through withholdings all year and then don't file, no problem, the government is happy to keep your money.
And then when you get you W2, are you not bound to report earnings via that W2?
Without getting too deep in the weeds, I'll just say it all stems from the use of the SSN, claiming to be a "US Citizen" which is a fiction that "lives in" DC, and claiming to be a US Citizen legally puts you in the District of Columbia and makes you a subject. So that's part of it, and to correct your status involves several steps like converting your passport to a state national so that you are officially on record as NOT being a US Citizen (as defined in case law) and not residing in the District of Columbia. Then you can correct your contracts with your employer to reflect that you are non-citizen national and being paid as a foreign entity (foreign to DC).
That's the jist of it but I know it's a lot to wrap your head around. They don't make it easy, for sure, but I have done everything above so I can confirm it is a real thing.
Yes, this is all very complicated. I am learning that much of our system is illegal, and that complexity is designed such that people cannot easily fight the system.
But all that being said, I still want to see someone who armed with this knowledge, has prevailed over that system.
The law is what the guy with the power says it is.
The law is what the guy with the power says it is.
I understand the tendency to think that way. Honestly, it was a major hurdle to get over, but it was learning about the very foundations of law and how the institution itself comes directly from the Bible, starting with the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, etc, and then learning about how exactly it got corrupted along the way, that I realized there is an order to the madness.
I was learning all this at the same time Trump was in office, and that's when I started to pay attention to his actions and could see what he was doing, i.e. doing everything by the book, because at the end of the day, the power is with the People, and he knows something and I think he is demonstrating how to fight corruption by exposing it publicly.
It is not the institution of law itself that is corrupt, it's the people within the institution that sell out and fail to honor their oath.
Yes, but so what? They report what they paid you, but that doesn't make you liable for anything. You can go ahead and file a report, but what I'm trying to say is that you can exercise your right to not have your taxes withheld upfront. The only reason that is done (in my opinion) is so that when people go to file their tax report, they are asking for their money back because they overpaid. So instead of the "tax bill" being a literal bill that comes out of your pocket, you are incentivized to file in order to get a refund. If you prepay through withholdings all year and then don't file, no problem, the government is happy to keep your money.
Without getting too deep in the weeds, I'll just say it all stems from the use of the SSN, claiming to be a "US Citizen" which is a fiction that "lives in" DC, and claiming to be a US Citizen legally puts you in the District of Columbia and makes you a subject. So that's part of it, and to correct your status involves several steps like converting your passport to a state national so that you are officially on record as NOT being a US Citizen (as defined in case law) and not residing in the District of Columbia. Then you can correct your contracts with your employer to reflect that you are non-citizen national and being paid as a foreign entity (foreign to DC).
That's the jist of it but I know it's a lot to wrap your head around. They don't make it easy, for sure, but I have done everything above so I can confirm it is a real thing.
Yes, this is all very complicated. I am learning that much of our system is illegal, and that complexity is designed such that people cannot easily fight the system.
But all that being said, I still want to see someone who armed with this knowledge, has prevailed over that system.
The law is what the guy with the power says it is.
I understand the tendency to think that way. Honestly, it was a major hurdle to get over, but it was learning about the very foundations of law and how the institution itself comes directly from the Bible, starting with the Magna Carta, Declaration of Independence, etc, and then learning about how exactly it got corrupted along the way, that I realized there is an order to the madness.
I was learning all this at the same time Trump was in office, and that's when I started to pay attention to his actions and could see what he was doing, i.e. doing everything by the book, because at the end of the day, the power is with the People, and he knows something and I think he is demonstrating how to fight corruption by exposing it publicly.
It is not the institution of law itself that is corrupt, it's the people within the institution that sell out and fail to honor their oath.