Where is the Law?

[jkeeb]

If you're still around nuclearjerk, let's start the argument. In order to start, I say the law showing you may owe taxes is section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code. Your response?

[Imalawman]

If you're still around nuclearjerk, let's start the argument. In order to start, I say the law showing you may owe taxes is section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code. Your response?

No, see, he's convinced. Remember? He's now a tax-paying citizen. He'll never again be duped into a tax protestor theory.

[Mr. Mephistopheles]

If you're still around nuclearjerk, let's start the argument. In order to start, I say the law showing you may owe taxes is section 1 of the Internal Revenue Code. Your response?

Silly, don't you know that Codes aren't laws?

[Quixote]

Anyway, the reason for all this "tax-protesting" is that there is no clearly defined law that says we as private individuals are liable for taxes.

One of the problems with the casual tax denier, as opposed to the batshit crazy ones, is that he is not sufficiently familiar with statutes in general to see how clear the IRC is. Texas has executed more people in recent years than any other state. It is therefore surprising to learn that no one has ever commited capital murder in Texas, at least not if we read the law like a TP.

All sections below are from the Texas Penal Code.

§ 19.03. CAPITAL MURDER[0]. (a) A person commits an
offense if the person commits murder as defined under Section
19.02(b)(1) and:

We don't need to know what follows after "and:", because no one has ever committed murder as defined in Section 19.02(b)(1).

§ 19.02. MURDER.

...

(b) A person commits an offense if he:
(1) intentionally or knowingly causes the death of an
individual;
(2) intends to cause serious bodily injury and commits
an act clearly dangerous to human life that causes the death of an
individual; or
(3) commits or attempts to commit a felony, other than
manslaughter, and in the course of and in furtherance of the
commission or attempt, or in immediate flight from the commission
or attempt, he commits or attempts to commit an act clearly
dangerous to human life that causes the death of an individual.

Emphasis added.

See. Section 19.02(b)(1) doesn't define murder, it just states that any of the listed actions is an offense. For all we know, that offense might be jay walking. Since murder is not defined in Section 19.02(b)(1), then no one can commit murder as defined in Section 19.02(b)(1). And yet the Innocence Project has never raised that point.

If I squint just right, I may find out that I don't have to stop at red lights either.