Is there any reason - apart from the possibility of civil and criminal sanctions - for paying Federal income taxes?
Congress has abandoned "the power of the purse" thus leaving our Federal government treasury outside of the Congress based appropriation machinery created by our Constitution and restated in various laws (such as the "anti-deficiency" act.)
Remember that old phrase - something about "no taxation without representation"? It used to mean something.
Karl Auerbach
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