THE MYTH OF TAXPAYER MONEY. IT'S CONGRESS' GREEN, NOT YOURS.

One of the stupider expressions the mindless parrot goes something like this, "The government shouldn't spend millions of taxpayer money on ...".

First, no one has money. Money is coined metal by weight and fineness. Money hasn't existed for decades upon decades. Money, if it were to exist, could exist without banks and legislators.

What everyone has is cash and bank credits. Those who have bank credits can transfer such with negotiable instruments other than cash. Cash itself is nothing more than bank credits circulating in perpetuity.

Cash can exist only with banking. Cash decreed legal tender can only exist with legislators and their agents.


Second, taxpayers don't have property (right of ownership) in anything designated as taxes. In short, it's Congress' cash and bank credit.

Where there is law, there must be duty and right. There can be no duty without right and no right without duty. Without both, there is no law.

The absence of law in the presence of legislators with agency is known as freedom and also known as liberty. Where there is an absence of law and an absence of legislators with agency, which is what most name as government, there is anarchy.

In America, Congress gave itself the right to tax income of Americans. It imposed the duty upon some Americans to pay taxes.

At first, Congress imposed strict limitation in the way in which it could levy taxes.  However, with the 16th Amendment, Congress lifted all restriction it had with respect to taxing income. Now, Congress can impose any taxes without the need of apportionment according to population of the various states.

For those muttonheads who complain, rightly, they should say something like this:

No one should be forced to pay taxes so Congress can spend it on such a waste.

Until Americans awaken to reality and force politicians to pass amendment that limits the sum of taxes any American must pay each year, say a total of 12% to whatever legislators, whether Congress, any state or any county, nothing shall change. In short, there should be a known maximum sum any should be forced to surrender to all legislators. Let the states' legislators and Congresses fight it out from a highly restricted pool of potential taxes.

It makes it oh so easy for legislators because they have trained you to believe it's "your money." In so doing, legislators have conditioned you to pay gobs of taxes willingly while tricking you into believing you have a voice in how the collected taxes get spent.

You don't. You have no say precisely because you lack right in cash and credit taken from you in the form taxes.

You have no right in any cash or credit in which Congress has property unless Congress imposes duty upon itself and grants you right. That is what Congress does with welfare programs like Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.

Legislators have the rights to part of your income, which they call taxes. You have the duty to pay them in a manner in which they order you to do so.

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AMERICANS LIVING IN FOREIGN LANDS SHOULD TELL CONGRESS TO FACTA-OFF.

So today, Dylan Griffiths of Bloomberg reported  the number of Americans renouncing U.S. citizenship stayed near an all-time high in the first half of 2014 before FACTA rules came into force. Between January and June, 1,577 once U.S. citizens renounced their citizenship to U.S. embassy officials.



Since July 1, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act has been in full effect. The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act decrees that U.S. citizens who live outside the USA to report their financial accounts held outside the USA to the IRS on behalf of Congress. Bizarrely, the law also requires foreign financial institutions to report to the IRS about their customers who are U.S. citizens.

NO ONE who earns income outside the borders of the fifty states which comprise the USA should pay taxes to the U.S. Congress. No one.

Disgustingly, Congress believes they are owed an unearned share of profits of U.S. citizens living elsewhere in other countries like Canada and Australia. It's neither moral nor legally justifiable for Congress to demand taxes from anyone earning income outside the USA. Greedy Congress "men" yearn for this undeserved tax revenue so they can increase the balance owed on their giant-sized Congressional debt credit card, wrongly parroted by most as the "national debt" or "federal debt".

When the authors of the second constitution wrote rules giving Congress the capacity, authority and thus power to lay and collect taxes, those authors wrote their taxation design in Article 1, sections 2, 8 and 9. Enough of the delegates from the various states ratified the constitution enshrining that power into law.

In Article I, Section 2, the authors wrote,

"Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

Specifically, Article 1, Section 8 states,

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;"

In Article I, Section 9, the authors wrote,

"No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census of Enumeration herein before directed to be taken."

and

"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."

So the authors' made explicit their design:

1. Direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states.
2. The congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes.
3. Direct taxes shall be apportioned by the results of the census.
4. No export taxes of any kind.

By apportionment, the ratifiers agreed that Congress would be restricted to collecting direct taxes, such as an income tax, based on the percentage of each states' population to the total for the USA. So, if New Yorkers had 10% of the population of the USA, and if Congress levied an income tax, New Yorkers had to pay 10% of all income taxes laid by Congress.

In effect, apportionment acted as a block against Congresses from levying income taxes.  Later, after the 1895 U.S. Supreme Court declared a  federal income tax unconstitutional because it violated this rule of apportionment in Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust, another Congress decided that apportionment acted as shackles against them, so they passed the 16th Amendment, in which they wrote,

"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."

Interestingly, before the 16th amendment, the Constitution had no mention of income.

Samuel Johnson, the devout Anglican lexicographer first published his A Dictionary of the English Language in 1755. Looking at the third edition, published in 1768 before the writing of the second constitution as well as the tenth edition published in 1792 soon after the writing of the second constitution, we can come to see how the founders thought of income.

Both th 1768 edition and the 1792 edition have revenue and income as synonyms, having an head entries for each word, revenue and income. Both words meant annual profits received from lands or other funds as well as the produce of anything.

Both th 1768 edition and the 1792 edition have revenue as a synonym for the head entry rent, specifcally defining the word rent as annual payment; the money paid for anything held of another.

Both th 1768 edition and the 1792 edition have definition for produce. Produce meant  product; that which yields or brings. The secondary definition for produce is amount; profit; gain; emergent sum or quantity.

Both the 1768 edition and the 1792 edition have definition for yield. Yield meant to produce; to give in return for cultivation or labor.

So those who drafted and ratified the second constitution had in mind earnings from land whether crop sales or rent, as well as interest from loans as the source of taxes. Never did the so-called founders or framers envision taxing anyone's labor income.

After 1895, Congress demonstrated by action they needed to define income as more than rent and interest, hence, this is why the 16th amendment includes the phrase "from whatever source." Further Congress demonstrated the need to rid itself of the pesky apportionment rule, hence the phrase, "without apportionment among the several States."

Yet, it is quite clear that in the second constitution, the ratifiers authorized taxation only with respect to the states and the Congress which drafted the 16th failed to expand taxation beyond states.

Thus, IRS rules regarding taxation of Americans as U.S. citizens living outside the USA and FACTA are quite unconstitutional. In short, Congress lacks authority to levy taxes upon anyone outside the territory of the USA and specifically the states.

If Congress had that authority, the Constitution would contain something along the lines of what would be construed as absurdity by everyone, e.g.,

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, without regard to any census or enumeration, without regard to citizenship or domicile, upon anyone living the earth over.

Congress needs a geography lesson. No one living in the 193 U.N. member countries, nor living in the 206 sovereign countries, nor those living in the U.S. possessions of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico or the U.S. Virgin Islands, as well as the free association countries of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Palau owes Congress a penny, much less a dime.

There is no constitutional basis for Congress to claim the right of taxation neither on U.S. citizens living outside the USA nor upon foreigners wherever they live the earth over, except within the boundaries of the actual fifty states that constitute the USA.

That successive Congresses are so brazen to seek taxes from U.S. citizens earning income abroad and that many idiotic Americans support them in their Ahab quest shows the world how far Americans have fallen. Americans have wandered far from the path of the right way.

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