An Open Letter
To The President's Advisory Panel
On Federal Tax Reform:


Direct, Non-Apportioned Taxes On Labor
Are Strictly Prohibited
By The United States Constitution.

Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3:
"Representatives and Direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which
may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers.."

Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4:
"No Capitation, or other direct Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the
Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken."


Every Related Supreme Court Decision
Confirms This Irrefutable Fact.

Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Co., 158 U.S. 601 (1895)
Brushaber v. Union Pacific R.R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916)
Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 U.S. 103 (1916)
Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107
THE ANTELOPE, 23 U.S. 66 (1825)
Butchers' Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746



Despite A Substantial Body Of
Legal Evidence Directly Challenging Its Authority,
The Internal Revenue Service,
(With the Direct Support Of The President,
U.S. Congress And Federal Courts,)
Continues To Enforce
This Unlawful and Immoral "Slave Tax"
On The Working People Of America.

It's Time To Stop
All Direct Taxes On Labor
And End The Income Tax Fraud.

Either America Still Has
A Constitution
And Bill Of Rights,
Or We Don't.

There Can Be NO Meaningful Tax Reform Until The Government Answers
Fundamental Questions
Regarding The Constitutional
Taxing Authority Of The IRS

For the May, 2004 WTP letter to the President go to:
www.GiveMeLiberty.org/TaxReform.htm

Here Are Some Of The Questions
Put Forth to the President
on May 10, 2004:

Admit or deny that the current tax on the wages of ordinary Americans is an un-apportioned direct tax.

Admit or deny that generically speaking, taxes on "income" have been classified as excise taxes by the Supreme Court in Brushaber v Union Pac. R.R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916).

Admit or deny that the Supreme Court, in Brushaber v Union Pac. R.R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916), rejected the idea that the 16^th Amendment granted to the government the power to impose an
un-apportioned direct tax, such as the current tax on wages.

Admit or deny that the Supreme Court, in Brushaber v Union Pac. R.R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916), ruled that any contention that the 16^th Amendment treats a tax on income as a direct tax
is wholly without foundation.

Admit or deny that the Supreme Court, in Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 U.S. 103 (1916), ruled that 16^th Amendment did not confer any new power of taxation, (as would be a power to impose an un-apportioned direct tax on the wages of ordinary Americans,) but merely prohibited the complete and plenary power to tax income derived from labor or capital from being taken out of the category of un-apportioned indirect taxation to which it inherently belonged.

Admit or deny that one more than one half of the federal Appeals courts have ruled that the current tax on wages of ordinary Americans is an un-apportioned direct tax while the remaining Appeals courts have ruled the same tax to be an un-apportioned indirect tax.

Admit or deny that the United States Supreme Court defined "income" to mean the following:

 

".Whatever difficulty there may be about a precise scientific definition of ?income,' it imports, as used here, something entirely distinct from principal or capital either as a subject of taxation or as a measure of the tax; conveying rather the idea of gain or increase arising from corporate activities."

"This court had decided in the Pollock Case that the income tax law of 1894 amounted in effect to a direct tax upon property, and was invalid because not apportioned according to populations, as prescribed by the Constitution. The act of 1909 avoided this difficulty by imposing not an income tax, but an excise tax upon the conduct of business in a corporate capacity, measuring, however, the amount of tax by the income of the corporation." Flint v. Stone Tracy Co., 220 U.S. 107, 55 L.Ed. 389, 31 Sup.Ct.Rep. 342, Ann. Cas."

 

Here Are More Facts:

For additional details go to:
www.GiveMeLiberty.org/TaxReform.htm


FACT:
The Constitution guarantees that no person can be deprived of his or her property except by due process of law. However, the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Courts, routinely and systemically conspire to enforce the income tax through intimidation, coercion and outright fraud.

For a disturbing example of these prosecutorial practices, read the trial transcript and criminal appeal of Texas businessman Dick Simkanin who was finally convicted in 2004 of failure to withhold taxes from his workers after three grand juries, two criminal trials, and a federal judge who denied his attorneys the right to enter a single piece of paper in his defense -- and who never required the DOJ to cite ANY law that imposed a specific legal duty upon Simkanin to file or withhold.

Is this the tax system
of a free nation?

FACT:
For the past five years, the President, United States Congress, Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service have steadfastly REFUSED to answer specific legal questions directly challenging the lawful authority of the U.S. Government to impose and enforce a direct, non-apportioned tax on the wages and salaries of American workers.

FACT:
The We The People Foundation, along with several thousand ordinary Americans, have been forced to bring a lawsuit against our own government to finally expose the truth about America's fraudulent income tax system. USDC (DC) Case No. 04-CV-01211

FACT:
In recent court filings, the U.S. Government has taken the position that it has "no legal obligation" to answer, respond or even READ the Peoples First Amendment Petitions for Redress of Grievances, which thoroughly document the federal income tax fraud.

Does This Sound Like A
"Servant" Government Created
Of, By and For The People?

Learn More About Our Efforts
To Restore Constitutional Order
To America's Tax System
-And-
The Landmark "Right-To-Petition" Lawsuit
To Force Our Government To Answer:
"No Answers, NO Taxes."

www.GiveMeLiberty.org

We The People Foundation
For Constitutional Education, Inc.

2458 Ridge Road, Queensbury, NY 12804
518-656-3578
Robert L. Schulz, Chairman