Taxable Income

Historical Intent From The Founding Fathers

"[A] wise and frugal government... 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." -- Thomas Jefferson
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Anotherwords, a man's labor should never be taxed,
unless taking food from the mouth of People for their
work can be acceptable. So let them keep all their pay.
Was Involuntary Servitude not abolished years back?

"For example. If the system be established on basis of
Income, and his just proportion on that scale has been
already drawn from every one, to step into the field of
Consumption, and tax special articles in that, as broad-
cloth or homespun, wine or whiskey, a coach or a wagon,
is doubly taxing the same article. For that portion of
Income with which these articles are purchased, having
already paid its tax as Income, to pay another tax on the
thing it purchased, is paying twice for the same thing;
it is an aggrievance on the citizens who use these arti-
cles in exoneration of those who do not, contrary to the
most sacred of the duties of a government, to do equal
and impartial justice to all its citizens." --
Thomas Jefferson (letter to Joseph Milligan, 6 April 1816)
Reference: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Memorial
Edition, Lipscomb and Bergh, eds., vol. 14 (465)
(PatriotPost 9Aug07)

Anotherwords, once income is taxed, that money must not
be taxed again when spent, or it is double taxation.

The Constitution Of The United States Of America
The Bill Of Rights - Article XVI (16th Amendment)

"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes
on incomes, from whatever source derived, without
apportionment among the several States, and
without regard to any census or enumeration."

If The Intent Of The Law, Is The Law
-- What is Taxable Income?

"I believe that in earning an income by personal
service every man consumes a part of his prin-
cipal, and that fact ought always to be taken in
to consideration. The man who has his fortune
invested in securities may find in a hundred
years, if he spent his income, that fortune still
intact, but the lawyer or the physician or the
man engaged in other personal employment is
spending his principal in earning his income.
That fact ought under every just system of
income taxation to be recognized and provided
against." 44 Congressional Record, 4007 (1909).

"I have no hesitation in declaring that a tax on
any useful occupation can not be defended in
any forum of conscience or of common sense.
To tax a man for trying to make a living for
his family is such a patent and gross injustice
that it should deter any legislature from
perpetrating it." - Senator Bailey of Texas
spoken in Congress during tax debate,
44 Congressional Record, 1702 (1909).

"It is the theory of the friends of the
income-tax proposition that income
from property should be taxed and
not individuals."
- Senator Brown of Nebraska,
author of the Sixteenth Amendment,
in ref to the object of the income tax,
44 Congressional Record 1570 (1909).

"Congress first enacted the personal injury
compensation exclusion ... when such
payments were considered the return
of human capital, and thus not
constitutionally taxable ‘income’
under the 16th amendment." -
Id. at 685. Dotson v. United States,
87 F.3d 682 (5th Cir. 1996),
court concluded upon basis of
the House Report

What did that case cite say?

"... the return of human capital, and thus
not constitutionally taxable ‘income’
under the 16th amendment." ?

So what is "human capital"?

What tax law, code, regulation, statute,
rule, etc., am I expected to comply with,
and is it Constitutional?

Article: Murphy & the Sixteenth Amendment

Murphy v. IRS, D.C. Appellate Ct. Opinion PDF File
The Murphy v IRS case was reversed by the same
court, & appears heading to the U.S. Sup. Ct.

IRS v. Cryer - Not Guilty! July 2007

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