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How? I am sick of this "OMG IRS IS STEALING WTF????" arguing all the time.
If the IRS has violated some law, out with it. Otherwise, it's not stealing.
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Um, please show me where the Constitution mentions the Internal Revenue Service....lol
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The Constitution authorizes the federal government to lay and collect taxes. The means by which our elected officials have chosen to do so is by setting up the tax statutes (26 U.S.C. et al), and granting, again by statute, to the IRS the power to enforce those laws.
This isn't really sophisticated stuff. Someone with a high school civics class should understand how this works.
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In the Orwellian sense, you have a point...
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Uh... In a LEGAL sense I am correct. What does Orwell have to do with it?
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Govt theft runs contrary to the vision of the founders. Simple basic research highlights this pretty well.
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And yet you fail to provide any.
Anyway, government theft might run contrary to the vision of the founders, but government collecting revenue through taxation does not. Hence, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1.
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It isn't bebunked just because a bunch of bootlickers say it is.
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Oh... so now you're going to try to make the whole "income tax is illegalzzzzz" argument? Sure, go ahead and make it, I could use a laugh.
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So far, you have shown you are not capable of real thinking.
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LOL... Because I'm the one saying that government actions explicitly authorized by the Constitution are stealing?????? It would be hysterical if I didn't think you were serious.
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Condoning and justifying the income tax (the 2nd plank of the communist manifesto) is unAmerican and tyrannical.
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Uh huh. Says you. And who are you again?