I am not really certain why you are so very set on this $50,000 figure (Is it because that is the medium of income within the United States? In which case, that really has no bearing upon anything, and much less than whether or not it is to be a direct or indirect tax.), but at any rate, no, I am not wrong; for tax-year 2013 (shown in millions of dollars):
Individual Income Taxes: $1,316,405
SSA: $947,850
Equals: 2,264,255-trillions of dollars or $2.3-trillion.
In comparison to Corporate Income Taxes: $273,506 (Note: For some reason I had been thinking that corporate income taxes averaged around 900-billion annually, but perhaps that is what it is supposed to be, but due to ongoing tax breaks, off-shoring, subsidies, and the like being allowed and practiced by many major corporations, combined with the fact that the IRS allows these very corporations to skirt paying around 250-billion per year, on average (per several news articles addressing the disparities of individual and business taxpayers), this lower figure actually does make very much sense.)
Sources:
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfa....cfm?Docid=203
http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/current_revenue (Now this Webpage shows even higher sums for TY-2014, as its sums include federal, state, and local taxes, emphasizing that: “The governments in the US collect about $3.2 trillion in a year income and payroll taxes.”)
Really, the only argument you have pertaining to this aspect is that those figures include also unearned and capital gains income, but nevertheless I doubt the IRS bothers measuring the various classes of individual income tax revenue being taken in each year, at least so much that they would make it available to the public (I searched and was unable to find such a detailed pie-chart); for example, years ago I wanted to write an article about the IRS’ pseudo-assertions on frivolous penalties and had attempted to FOIA request data from them with respects to that (e.g., within a given year how many instances were imposed, assessed, and verified; the sum of determinations made both in favor and against each taxpayer; total civil trials filed and taxpayer wins to losses; total revenue generated; total instances still ongoing; average timeframe before resolution; etc.), my request was denied on the basis that the IRS claims to not keep records of such information so it would not be possible for them to provide the information being requested within my FOIA request.
Both are governmental cronies, they collude to dictate various aspects of national and international policy within American politics, foreign nations, and partisan special interest unions and covert think-tanks. Neither Bill Gates nor Warren Buffet work for businesses they fund or direct businesses. (Although personally I am not familiar with their private financing and neither do I really care, it is simply something I have zero interest in; I care not at all for either one of these traitors and simply wish for them to keep to themselves, including their misguided opinions, and go about enjoying their vast wealth for the remainder of their lives.)
Moreover, do you think either of them really gives a crap about taxation? Being taxed is probably the last thing on their either of their minds come April of each year—ergo, in relation to their pay-scales they probably pay only a very small ratio in taxes in comparison to the average laborer; assuming they even have to pay taxes at all, as they could be like half of the Legislature after all, simply declaring themselves exempt from all income taxation, it is not like the DOJ is going to go after people like Gates or Buffet or corporations such as Wal-mart, BP, or AT&T.
1. Indirect taxes require uniformity throughout their application (i.e.., uniformly imposed tax-rates upon all property to be taxed with total equality), not just geographically, which pertains to only one aspect of uniformity. It is because of this exact mentality that the IRC has been morphed into a mess of behavioral modification prescriptions.
2. It makes a vast difference with respect to the source and the source’s shadow and with determining the class of income tax being imposed, so as to determine the proper tax-rates, deductions, credits, exemptions, and the like.
3. Furthermore, it is constitutionally imperative in determining whether or not its subject is respective to a legitimate indirect income tax or a direct personal tax that is actually being imposed, regardless of the brush you desire to color it with.
Please see my sig. It shall certainly refresh your oh so rundown, frayed, burdened memory—while also knocking your socks off at the same time.
However, to restate, this is not about statutory exemptions from taxation, not paying taxes that are legally due, the unconstitutionality of the Sixteenth Amendment, or whatever other misdirection you fancy. And once again, unlike the above cases, the USSC has never been willing to grant certiorari (or even bothering to write a published explanation for denying this writ) for the myriad tax cases respective of day-laborers. Regardless the earlier tax acts, legislative records and proposals, and USSC cases are very clear in what classes of taxation are intended to exist within the breadth of federal income taxation and in maintaining an appropriate interest in national economics.
So then, you are saying the courts—I suppose like Elvis—either do not possess such powers, or just do not ever exercise such powers in the continued interest of so-declared “national security” or to otherwise prevent public exposure of sensitive content that might counter the continued “mission” or “operations” of the IRS? And that plaintiffs or prosecutors do not have the authority to seek the dismissal of their case, amend their pleadings, arrange a plea agreement prior to trail, request that documents be sealed or that non-disclosure agreements be made, or that gag orders be issued? …Right…
The problem with the majority of those cases you rely upon is primarily two-fold (at least what springs in my mind at the moment):
1. You greatly exaggerate the pleading as framed, contriving much of the context of such cases, and then expounding upon those falsehoods.
2. The majority of the cases you rely on, with such determined admiration, were poorly argued pro se; effectively resulting in a tribunal courtroom setting that was called up merely to go through the motions, so as to lend a semblance of due process and justice, without any actual substance being existent throughout.
I am personally not familiar with such cases (as obviously, in most instances, they would not be made publicly available even if such rumors are true), but just to show you that you are indeed wrong or are otherwise just being dishonest, here is a Webpage where the party involved thoroughly includes all of his documents for open viewing, claiming that his case, involving 10-years of alleged wrongdoing by the IRS, was dismissed with prejudice shortly after the DOJ failed to answer any of his interrogatories and had even motioned for one (or more) extensions: RAM v. IRS (See tab: Documentation).
Apropos, I have had a FOIA request denied for the latter reason by my IRS Disclosure Office (i.e., informing me that releasing such information would be detrimental to the operations of the IRS and therefore making it exempt from FOIA requirements), while I was requesting information about their ACS and FRP practices that pertained directly to my family and the employee processing of our submitted tax documents, assessment of penalties, and the like—needless to state it is very interesting, how in fear the IRS is of such information being made publicly available, which is due to the blatant illegalities involved in how they internally mishandle the issuing of civil fines, administrative due process, documents processing, and whatnot (i.e., it is all done via without regard to any statutory requirements, operating on a digitally time released, quickly reviewed by low level IRS employees at call-centers located within various states, such as Washington or Oklahoma (IIRC), and then mailed out via computer from an IRS clearing house located within another state, such as Utah or California).
And what on earth does paranoia or fruitcakes have anything to do with any of this? Are you saying that fruitcakes scare you? If so, I can’t say I blame you, those things do tend to look like bad science projects gone horribly wrong. Perhaps there are conspiracies involved in the baking of fruitcakes, who is to say really? Oh, what was that? So you say, has that silly little llama of yours done gone and jump-kicked you in the forehead again? Ochies!
And I suppose you just happened to overlook all of the ongoing correspondence involved (i.e., openly posted throughout www.losthorizons.com for reference), wherein several instances had resulted in favorable determinations being made for the parties involved? Ergo, questions were asked and answered, and afterward refunds were honored and civil impositions were reversed. (Meanwhile, to reference, Saving to Suitors Club claims to have a vastly higher success rate while dealing with the IRS.)
Why, because that information is not at all biased to promote distain against the misrepresented people you plaster throughout that sub-domain?
- Congress can only tax the rent of lands without apportionment, but not the land itself.
- Congress can only tax the yield of stocks without apportionment, but not the stock itself.
- Congress can only tax the selling of inventory without apportionment, but not the inventory itself.
- Congress can only tax ‘gains’ without apportionment, but not the source of it.
- Congress can only tax ‘profits’ without apportionment, but not the source of it.
- Congress can only tax ‘incomes’ without apportionment, but not the source of it.
(Is anybody beginning to see a pattern forming here, or is this just my paranoia kicking in again, seriously?)
And likewise Congress may, without apportionment, only tax the ‘taxable income’ derived through the successful employment of wages (e.g., if Congress desires to wordcraft ‘wages’ into ‘income’ within the context of Subtitle C that is their prerogative, but that still does not make it anymore subject to income taxation—further recalling that the terms ‘wages’ and ‘salaries’ while included within the originating term ‘net income’, have since been omitted from the term’s revised context; thereby clearly indicating that “derived from salaries, wages, or compensation for personal service” was never intended to hold synonymous meanings, and that the use of salaries, wages, and compensation each bears an individual significance, while only the latter term remains in use within the later rewritten Section 61 of 26 USC, and that compensation for personal services includes neither salaries nor wages), previously having been acquired by laboring, but not the labor, not the employee , and not the employee’s basic recompense.
Hence, Congress cannot tax without apportionment the capital, corpus, principal, or stock itself, only its financially ascended realizations.
The original intent of the income tax intends for it to adhere to the succinct distinctions of competence and wealth.
So, no, you prove or win not a thing. In fact, you had and failed long ago—you even admitted as much by your little slip up last month HERE.
PWN
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