The Founding Fathers had more of a clue than we might think, take Thomas Jefferson for example:
A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Forbes has an excellent article on why the states should not have a Personal Income tax, but it makes even more sense for the Federal government, since state governments are closer to the people and can be influenced for good more easily than the distant Federal Government. The same arguments that apply to a state sales tax on non-essentials apply even more so at the Federal level.
The current Personal Income Tax System also creates winners, losers and cheaters: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/082415/whats-wrong-american-tax-system.asp
As well as allowing for statists and Democrats (but I repeat myself!) to pull their power cards with audits on those who disagree with their policies. (Remember Lois Learner?): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lerner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeA3s77O9Yo
Ron Paul was considered a radical for supporting an end to the Personal Income Tax- However, isn't the growth of government and the elimination of our rights reason enough to end it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Paul
News Flashes for Americans
Americans have never had "Federal Income" and therefore owe no Federal Income Taxes.
And further more:
Americans aren't U.S. Citizens nor are they "citizens of the United States". The only time that Americans act as "Citizens" is when they act as "State Citizens" in order to conduct international business for their State of the Union.
Americans live in nation-states and take their nationality from their State of the Union. They are Texans, Wisconsinites, New Yorkers, and so on.
Americans are Parties to the Constitutions, they don't stand under them. Our Federal Employees and their State-of-State franchise employees are the ones that stand under and are obligated to perform under the Constitutions.
Americans stand under The Unanimous Declaration of Independence.
Americans live in physically defined States of the Union. They do not inhabit incorporated "states-of-states" that exist only on paper.
Americans have never owed mortgages.
Americans have never owed property taxes.
Americans are owed a National Credit equal to the U.S. National Debt, plus any and all interest they have been charged in error on the U.S. National Debt.
Americans live in a country, not a nation.
Americans are part of a nation defined as the population of their State of the Union.
Americans are owed respect of all their Constitutional Guarantees from all their public employees and foreign contractors.
Americans are not subject to unlawful arrest or bills of attainder.
Americans are not subject to censorship.
Americans have freedom of conscience, belief, and religion.
Americans are owed protection of their "persons" in every jurisdiction -- Lawful Persons on the land, Legal Persons on the sea, LEGAL PERSONS in the jurisdiction of the air -- any and all "persons" in any jurisdiction, anywhere.
Americans have complete co-contemporaneous general jurisdiction over everything that takes place in this country, on the land, on the sea, and in the air.
American courts stand over all foreign courts of special and limited jurisdiction, meaning courts of Maritime Commerce and Admiralty and the Administrative tribunals of individual corporations.
American courts can judge not only the facts of a case, but judge the law under which a case is tried, and if our juries find that a piece of legislation is vague, unfair, or otherwise inappropriate, we can nullify the law that a case is brought under.
Americans are owed an absolutely huge amount of money and restitution for all the mortgages, taxes, fees, tariffs, and interest that they have been charged, but never owed.
Americans are owed an equally massive amount as restitution for illegal confiscation of their assets and physical property, silver, gold, land, labor, and interest in businesses seized under false presumptions.
Americans are owed good faith service from every public employee, elected and appointed and hired to perform, whether those employees are hired under the auspices of a foreign for-profit corporation in the business of providing government services or not.
Americans are not subjects of the British Monarch nor the Pope.
Americans are not subject to any Public Policies, mandates, or acts of legislation promoted by any commercial or municipal corporation for its officers and employees.
Americans may be subject to only about eight percent of all Federal Code, which must be published in the Congressional Record to have any effect.
Americans are only subject to properly published Federal Code if and when those
Americans engage in federally regulated activities or voluntarily enter verifiably ceded Federal facilities and enclaves.
Americans have their own Capitol established in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and their own Congress which is known as The Continental Congress.
Americans established a special foreign district, known as the District of Columbia, and a foreign Federal Capitol in the District of Columbia, the City of Washington, DC, to expedite the operations of their Federal Subcontractors.
Americans call the contiguous national soil jurisdiction owed to all their member States by the common name: The United States, when referring to this country.
Americans call the contiguous land and sea jurisdiction owed to all their member States by the common name: The United States of America, when operating in international jurisdiction.
Americans have never incorporated The United States nor The United States of America.
Americans do not own the foreign incorporated entities that have been infringing on their Good Names, copyrights and trademarks and otherwise operating as the United States, Incorporated, or the United States of America, Incorporated, or the US Corp, Incorporated, or the U.S. Corp, Incorporated, or the USA, Incorporated, or any other version of incorporated entity seeking to represent and impersonate our country and our lawful government, so as to steal our identity and gain access to our credit and assets.
Americans realize that they have been grossly defrauded, misrepresented, misled, and left without disclosure by their Federal Employees for more than 150 years.
Americans realize that these same Federal Employees have also been misled by the foreign Principals responsible for their operations.
Americans don't have and don't use political parties to screen candidates for their Public Offices.
Americans don't vote in private corporate shareholder elections sponsored by the US, Inc., USA, Inc., or any other foreign corporation.
Americans don't voluntarily register their babies, their cars, their trucks, or anything else of value for the benefit of any foreign government or corporation; all such coerced and undisclosed registrations stand void for fraud.
Americans are not subject to marriage licensing, driver licensing, or professional licensing of any kind.
Americans are indemnified, not insured.
Americans can conduct any business they choose to conduct by issuing a Disclaimer and setting their terms of service; the only exceptions are interstate manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol, tobacco and firearms as strictly defined.
Americans operating as unincorporated businesses are not subject to regulation under the interstate commerce clause of any Federal Constitution.
Americans entering the District of Columbia are aware that they are entering a foreign domain subject to Federal Law and Territorial Code.
Americans entering the Municipality of Washington, DC, are aware that they are entering a self-declared independent international city-state operating under its own Municipal Code.
Americans are aware that the Law of the Land applies unilaterally in all locations not specifically and consciously ceded by the States for Federal use.
Americans are aware that their American Government was largely dormant and mostly vacated from 1860 to 1998, and that during this time the Federal Subcontractors ran rampant and roughshod over Americans and American property rights.
Americans are aware that the Federal Subcontractors reorganized as incorporated entities, US, Inc., USA, Inc., etc., and pulled numerous fraud schemes in Breach of Trust against their American Employers, racking up huge debts, and then committing bankruptcy fraud to offload these debts onto the American Public.
Americans are aware that the Federal Reserve loans money to the Federal Subcontractors and is not a part of the American Government nor the Federal Government.
Americans are aware that all the so-called Federal Agencies are hired subcontractors of their own Federal Subcontractors, such that Federal Agencies do not necessarily recognize the fact that the Americans are ultimately their employers.
Americans realize that this leads to Federal Agencies being loyal to the Federal Subcontractors instead of being loyal to the American States and People, even though these same Americans pay for their services as well as the services of their Employers.
Americans are fed up with the usurpation, obfuscation, impersonation, doubledealing, breach of trust, fraud, and violation of service contracts that these incorporated Federal Service providers have promoted.
Americans have awakened and are assembling their State Governments and bringing them into full Session for the first time in many decades.
By Anna Von Reitz