JoeF said:
There are always people who have nothing better to do than to fight these things...
There is somebody here in my area who apparently got a ticket for running a red light, and he found out that the yellow phase was 0.7 seconds too short
http://www.highwayrobbery.net/redlightcamsdocsCostaMesaMain.html
Incidentally, this helped a buddy of mine who ran the exact red light shortly before they restarted enforcing it...
And as a result, they now have cameras at 5 or so traffic lights on that road, not just at one...
Anyway, with these motions re: 9th amendment, etc., that reminds me of the nutcases who claim that the income tax violates the constitution, like this guy:
http://www.paynoincometax.com/
Note his address
Irwin Schiff
C\O Las Vegas Detention Center
3200 Stewart Ave
Las Vegas, NV 89101
I like your red herring stance.
It's my turn to use that term now.
I thought the issue was seatbelts, how did we end up with taxation and representation?
This has the word
red herring written all over it.
OK, I am kidding.
Here is a little lesson in History. I love History, especially American History. Man I wish they asked me harder questions during the interview. I was kind of insulted during the interview because of the History questions, but that's another story. Here is the lesson:
Tariffs, or customs duties, were the federal government's chief source of revenue until the American Civil War. During the war, Congress passed internal taxes, including the first federal income tax, to help cover war costs. A new Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue was set up to collect the taxes.
The Civil War income tax ended in 1872. Congress attempted to pass a similar tax in 1894, but in 1895 the Supreme Court in
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Co ruled that general income taxes are unconstitutional because they are unapportioned direct taxes. To this day, the ruling has not been over-turned.
After the Supreme Court ruled general income taxes unconstitutional, President Taft proposed three new taxes to Congress. A graduated inheritance tax, another general income tax, and a new corporate tax. In the attempt to bypass the Supreme Court’s Pollack ruling, Taft also proposed the 16th Amendment with the intention of taxing profits made from commercial activity which was retified in 1913.
With the ratification of the 16th Amendment, Congress created the federal internal income tax and the Federal Reserve Bank to fight the inflation caused by paper currency. All income tax collections were forwarded to the Federal Reserve to pay the interest on its publicly circulated money. The withdrawal of currency from public circulation through the new tax and the new Federal Reserve stabilizes inflation.
So your dopey criminal is wrong in evading taxation, which of course he couldn't do since he got caught. Income taxes are legal and more importantly, CONSTITUTIONAL. Taxes are the price we pay to live in a civilized society. They pay for our public schools, libraries, community colleges, fire departments, and of course Policemen, so that they can write us more seatbelt tickets.
Good night.
