Attorney Acquitted on Federal Income Tax Charges
A federal jury unanimously found Tommy Cryer not guilty this week on two misdemeanor counts of failure to file.
And according to Cryer, the prosecution dismissed two felony charges of tax evasion prior to trial...
"The court could not find a law that makes me liable or makes my revenues taxable," Cryer said. "The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot impose an income tax on anything but the profits and gains. When you work for someone you give your service and labor in exchange for money, so everything you make is not profit or gain. You put something into it."
Comments (8)
David White
But of course, if such rulings proliferated, Congress would quickly "correct" the situation with legislation that made taxes on ordinary income -- i.e., work -- the law of the land.
Published: July 22, 2007 9:04 PM
Sag
Great that he got off. But I'm curious - is the federal income tax legal or illegal under the constitution? Was the 16th amendment ratified or not? Most people would get nabbed if they tried to do (or not do) what this Shreveport attorney has. But out of sheer curiousity, are federal taxes legal or not? I would love to see Stephen Kinsella's or some other lawyer's take on it.
Published: July 23, 2007 2:30 PM
Yancey Ward
Here is the text of the 16th Amendment:
Now, I am no lawyer, but it seems pretty clear to me that the income tax is constitutional, like it or not.
Of course, the selling of the 16th Amendment is one of the greatest bait and switch swindles in the history of humankind.
Published: July 23, 2007 3:12 PM
larry
What is income? Does a fair exchange of labor for money constitute income? While the Federal government points to wages as a gain there is a complete failure to recognize the corresponding loss of the laborer. What loss? The loss of time. If you do not show up to work will you receive your wages, of course not. The traditional definition of income at the time of the passage of the 16th amendment did not include the fair exchange of wages for labor. Income was profit ie dividends for stocks, capital gains profits from rent.
Published: July 26, 2007 8:22 AM
Dan Hooker
Interesting point concerning labor. Can I than deduct my time, at the average income of the state I reside in to offset my loss for which I will never see returned..i.e..time? That my labor is infringed on by the government is cause enough to go to war!!!!! Who do any of you think you are that you have a God given right to my sweat? I stake no claim against yours.
Published: July 30, 2007 4:50 PM
QuickReference
I have seen this happen once before, when I was a kid in an old, forgotten place called USSR. The lies so open, so in your face that you can not believe the situation really is what it looks like.
Published: August 2, 2007 8:58 PM
Daniel Johnston
I want to learn more about the Ludwig Von Mises Institute. I also want to learn more about the Austrian Economics that the USA's main man RON PAUL talks about. I'm thinking seriously of running for a STATE office in Florida. I want to run on a platform that extradites our State from the influence of the US Government. Also, excercises the wisdom of RON PAUL. Please contact me on my email address. Please DON'T SOLICIT products!!! Just give me facts. Sincerely, Dan
Published: March 27, 2009 4:00 PM
FBEye
If you 'Google' this- AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM, you can watch a documentary on the web by Aaron Russo regarding this matter. There is a lot of discussion at Ripoffreport.com at the 'Bank of America' page in the 'Updates' section about this too. It's around early April of 2009. There's also a poem in the 'Updates' section of the Ripoff Report dated 3-17-2009 by Susan regarding 'Bank of America when is payment due date...' All of this is quite interesting, wouldn't you agree? The poem is entitled- 'FEDERAL INCOME TAX POEM'. The author also composed 'SLUDGE POEM' which was posted on 8-23-2007. Two weeks after it was posted about Toyota's CEO, Jim Press, he quit. It looks as though a poem can be quite powerful, huh? I like 'CUOMO POEM', HARVARD PROFESSOR POEM', & 'DEEPAK POEM' the best. 'PENGUIN POEM' was a good one too, wasn't it?
Published: April 6, 2009 3:13 PM