I have heard the Tinfoil Hat Brigade loudly claim that the 16th Amendment sez you don’t have to pay taxes, but I’ve never been able to get one of them to 'splain precisely how it says this. Seeing as how the whole text of the amendment says, basically, “Congress shall have the power to collect taxes,” seems a tad, um, contradictory? Never understood how they get from “The 16th Amendment sez Congress has the power to collect taxes” to “The 16th Amendment sez taxes are illegal.”
Lola, if you can stomach it, wouldja mind asking Mr. Dinwiddie just how this all works, for me, please? Thanks.
Heck, back in the late-70s, both Rev. David Lloyd Webber’s Southwest Radio Church and Rev. Sheldon Emry’s America’s Promise radio broadcasts would do programs about Soviet weather wars being waged on the US using technology developed by Tesla.
I guess his point is that the gov’t is breaking its own laws by collecting income tax.
…And also, he’s obviously High King Of The Land Of Cognitive Dissonance.
He gave me a DVD the other day titled: “9/11: Aftermath Or Myth?”. I can’t bring myself to watch it until I have some friends with me to MST3K it with me.
I can’t be the only one who thought of the dog. The dog understands spoken English perfectly, and knows exactly when to finally obey and when it’s safe to hog all the covers and exactly how much chicken she will be given on the sly. She only pretends not to understand spoken human language. She understands every word. We think she is our pet, but in reality, she runs the household by a cunning command of English and looking cute.
I do think that the price of oil is carefully manipulated by the oil companies and that the military-industrial complex really does run the world.
I figure if you’re going to go around proclaiming conspiracy theories, you owe it to the people around you to make them as interesting as possible. That’s why I like David Icke. Anybody can blame everything on the Jews or the Communists. But looking people straight in the eye and telling them that you know George Bush and Queen Elizabeth are secretly an extraterrestrial lizard in disguise? That’s entertainment.
It is possible for a state government to garnish wages without a court order.
I argued with Virginia for three years about an income tax overcharge.
They finally agreed and sent a check.
They they changed their mind and wanted the money back today.
When I said I needed time they garnished my wages including interest for three years even though I only had the money a week.
and apparently I am the only one who read the thread title and expected to hear about a coworker’s theories about the pet food poisonings. “see, it’s the gub’ment’s attempt to jump start the nations economy by instilling a fear in consumer spending against foreign imports…”
I am sure that you are correct. If Quebec is a state, colour me surprised.
I readily admit that I don’t know much about the law, which is no doubt intricate, but what Crazy Cow-orker was describing was that his gf had money in her bank account, then suddenly didn’t, and it was all the gubmint’s fault. I am pretty sure it just doesn’t go down like that.
And the really confusing is, what’s the point of a a Canadian holding conspiracy theories about the 16th Amendment to the American Constitution?
(Next time he goes off on this, just look at him and say, “16th Amendment? What 16th Amendment? Article 91(3) of the Constitution Act 1867 clearly states, ‘It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate and House of Commons, to make Laws for the Peace, Order, and good Government of Canada, in relation to all Matters not coming within the Classes of Subjects by this Act assigned exclusively to the Legislatures of the Provinces; and […] the exclusive Legislative Authority of the Parliament of Canada extends to all Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated; that is to say, […] The raising of Money by any Mode or System of Taxation’; and Article 92(2) states, ‘In each Province the Legislature may exclusively make Laws in relation to Matters coming within the Classes of Subjects next hereinafter enumerated; that is to say, […] Direct Taxation within the Province in order to the raising of a Revenue for Provincial Purposes.’” That’ll shut him up.)
Wait a sec, here - KFL, you’re a Canadian, right? Working in Canada, right?
Why does he think you have any concern, or any interest, in the minutia of the US government?
(Yes, I know he’s a stupid king of cognitive dissonance, but, still talking to a Canadian at a Canadian job about the evils of the Sixteenth Amendment? Wubba?)
