# Paying Income Tax is Illegal???

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-income-tax-is-illegal/248269>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 2, 2004, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-income-tax-is-illegal/248269 "2004-06-02T15:54:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-income-tax-is-illegal/248269/61 "2004-06-30T13:51:12Z")

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Here’s a [news item](http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_showfast.html?article=39771) that you may wish to point out to your friend. The opening paragraph says it all:

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> A former Auburn tax preparer who contends that all citizens have the legal right to file “zero income tax returns” received a **nine-year federal prison term yesterday without possibility of parole**.

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**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-income-tax-is-illegal/248269/62 "2004-06-30T17:31:58Z")

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From the article:

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> “This should cause people to think twice about using these illusory tax protester claims that the federal income tax is voluntary,” [Assistant U.S. Attorney William E.] Morse said following the sentence.

In order to think twice, they’d first have to think once, wouldn’t they?

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**Author:** ![Lockseer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a5b964/32.png) [@Lockseer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockseer)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-income-tax-is-illegal/248269/63 "2004-06-30T17:35:26Z")

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> [@Cervaise](#):
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> From the article:In order to think twice, they’d first have to think once, wouldn’t they?

True.

Sorry I haven’t given any updates on my friend, but he’s pretty much stopped replying to my requests for responses to the board. I did forward him that link, which I found very interesting. I’ll be seeing him this afternoon, and will ask his opinion.

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**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2004, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paying-income-tax-is-illegal/248269/64 "2004-06-30T20:58:12Z")

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You fools!! Can’t you see?? He was being [vindictively prosecuted](http://www.stevenswan.com/motion.htm) to silence the truth–that Israel and the Jews were behind 9/11!!  
:rolleyes:

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