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Proponents of this anti-tax theory, commonly referred to as the "861 position," believe that because this section of the federal tax code does not explicitly say that wages are taxable (the phrase "compensation for services" does not encompass wages, according to this line of reasoning), earners are not obligated to pay taxes on them.
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If the thing says that people don't need to pay taxes, then they don't, but I don't see it saying so, I only see it taken as common sense that they should. Compensation for services should mean that what the country has done for them is needed to be compensated - to the state - but what has the country done for them? It has only made acailable things that were already paid for and taxed respectively. Unless it means the personnel used are taxable as property, or the actual property used is taxable.