1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:12,460 There is no law, and to date, nobody has been able to show that there is a law for the average American citizen working day in and day out to pay an income tax. 2 00:00:12,780 --> 00:00:19,240 We, the People Foundation for Constitutional Education, put a full-page ad in the USA Today on July 7, 2000. 3 00:00:19,460 --> 00:00:24,440 And within the body of that ad was a $50,000 challenge for anyone that could show the law. 4 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:26,820 And to me, $50,000 is a lot of money. 5 00:00:26,820 --> 00:00:31,460 So I went after that and did the research based on the fact that I thought, let's put this baby to bed. 6 00:00:31,540 --> 00:00:32,400 I'm hearing all these rumors. 7 00:00:32,620 --> 00:00:34,060 You know, I'm going to kill two birds with one stone. 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:37,520 I'll answer these people's questions that are asking me, and then I'll win this $50,000. 9 00:00:38,100 --> 00:00:44,600 And, you know, based on the research that I did throughout the year 2000 and that I'm still doing, I have not found that law. 10 00:00:44,780 --> 00:00:45,900 I've asked Congress. 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,400 We've asked a lot of people in the IRS, IRS commissioners, helpers. 12 00:00:50,180 --> 00:00:55,180 They can't answer because if they answer, the American people are going to know that this whole thing is a fraud. 13 00:00:55,180 --> 00:00:56,900 There is no law. 14 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:11,660 There is no law that requires the average American worker in the private sector to pay a direct unapportioned tax on their labor and compensation for services. 15 00:01:12,060 --> 00:01:12,900 There is no law. 16 00:01:12,900 --> 00:01:21,320 I really expected that, of course, there's a law that you can point to in the law book, the code that requires you to file a tax return. 17 00:01:21,440 --> 00:01:22,260 Of course there is. 18 00:01:22,620 --> 00:01:26,360 I mean, I don't know what it is right then as he was speaking to me, but sure. 19 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,120 So, naively, I agreed to go off and research it and get back to him. 20 00:01:30,980 --> 00:01:41,300 Three and a half months later, I was at that point where I couldn't find the statute that clearly made a person liable, at least not me and most people I know. 21 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:45,340 And I had no choice in my mind except to resign. 22 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:54,860 I had to leave the IRS because I presented evidence that I had accumulated indicating that the agency was violating the law and violating people's rights. 23 00:01:54,860 --> 00:02:00,800 And I asked the agency for a response to my sincere concerns. 24 00:02:01,940 --> 00:02:10,980 And the answer I got was that they would not respond to my concerns and that they would provide me with the paperwork necessary to tender my resignation. 25 00:02:10,980 --> 00:02:15,360 You can look through the statutes and look for the law that requires you to pay. 26 00:02:15,720 --> 00:02:24,920 And when you do that, you can't identify a law that requires the average person in America who earns a wage and works in private business to pay an income tax. 27 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:40,180 American citizens, along with the foundation, have been asking the IRS to specifically provide them with the underlying legal foundation upon which they administer and enforce the personal income tax laws in our country. 28 00:02:40,180 --> 00:02:47,980 At the national level, when people would attempt to contact somebody of a much higher authority, say the commissioner, same kind of thing. 29 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:52,420 They would get answers that were in effect non-answers. 30 00:02:52,420 --> 00:03:03,540 You have to understand that an agency which will unlawfully impose a tax that doesn't exist is not going to care. 31 00:03:03,540 --> 00:03:10,280 However, if we the people don't know what our rights are, they're not going to tell us. 32 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:21,380 If Americans just learned that the IRS was actually knowingly deceiving them, that would be enough for them to rise up and put a stop to it. 33 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,620 100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the federal debt. 34 00:03:25,620 --> 00:03:32,540 All individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government. 35 00:03:32,640 --> 00:03:38,380 People have been told, you know, that you need this income tax system to fund government, which is absolutely ridiculous. 36 00:03:38,660 --> 00:03:44,120 I mean, my question is, well, if that's true, how did we fund government from 1776 to 1913? 37 00:03:44,460 --> 00:03:52,120 The main purpose of the income tax is not to raise revenue, but to redistribute wealth and to control society. 38 00:03:52,120 --> 00:03:56,400 A lot of people might say, well, gee, if there wasn't an income tax, what would happen to education? 39 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:03,200 They don't understand that education is paid for, for the most part, out of state and local taxes, your property tax. 40 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,840 People might say, well, how are we going to build and maintain our highways? 41 00:04:07,060 --> 00:04:10,000 If there's no money coming into the government, we need our highways. 42 00:04:10,180 --> 00:04:12,720 There is a tax on every gallon of gasoline that people buy. 43 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:17,040 Proceeds from the income tax do not pay for highway construction. 44 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:22,740 I believe that in both spirit and substance, our tax system has come to be un-American. 45 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:27,980 Death and taxes may be inevitable, but unjust taxes are not. 46 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:34,680 This small booklet includes the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence. 47 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,700 This is a document that every citizen should read. 48 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:43,200 It's a document which freed an entire nation. 49 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:53,100 This is the Internal Revenue Code, and this document, and the unlawful application of this document 50 00:04:53,100 --> 00:05:00,540 by the Internal Revenue Service has enslaved the nation that this document attempted to free. 51 00:05:00,540 --> 00:05:01,240 Thank you. 52 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:15,480 That Question