Had he, and the others who passed this abomination of a law, read the United States Constitution, they would have read under Article 1, Section 10, Paragraph 1, “No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal, coin money; emit bills of credit; “make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts”; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law (latin for after the fact). So, any law, made after that fact that nothing but gold and silver coins could be used as a tender in a payment of debt, would fall instantly under the United States Supreme Court case of Marbury Vs. Madision which would make the Federal Reserve Act repugnant, therefore null and void due that the Federal Reserve Act would violate Article 1, Section 10 Clause 2 if the United States Constitution, because unlike the United States Mint, the Federal Reserve does NOT issue Gold and Silver coins. Simple as that.

Or were you referring to my wish that people who believe in freedom would stop wasting their time and setting the movement back by advocating positions that only cause people to end up paying more to the IRS and maybe even doing prison time?

can anyone have a differing opinion than you and not be wrong.

everyone is an expert.

bunch of fools.

the biggest one is Peter K. since I seem to notice he has spend several yrs. on this site arguing that he knows better than everyone else.

Even when one woman simply praises him, he feels compelled to go on and on like a true know it all.

People like you sir make my stomache queezy.

Move on bro, and take your mental genious with you.

you are truly pathetic.

If Aaron researched that for years, he was a terrible researcher.

No, I did not “ignore” a former IRS Commissioner “when he says That the Supreme Court decisions are inaplicable to the IRS” because that was NOT what he said.

It was what Aaron Russo said he said. The former Commissioner said that a particular case was “inapplicable” to a point Russo was trying to make. Then the film cuts to Aaron Russo commenting, telling the viewer (out of the presence and earshot of the former Commissioner) that the former Commissioner had said what you now think he said.

The medium of film works great for an experience which requires a “suspension of disbelief”, i.e., fiction. That same feature makes it good for misleading propaganda. (See anything by Michael Moore.)

But when it comes to serious documentary, the typical viewer does not have the sophistication to spot such things quickly, nor the inclination to stop the player and think through whether or not what he has just been told or shown makes sense.

As for the tax thing goes, a little insight, why not look up Joe Banister and see what he has to say about it, for he was a special agent- (more to the point, “the guy that wears the gun that makes one pay their taxes” with the I.R.S. – That was before he could not find any law.

He has a website, it’s

www.freedomabovefortune.com

1) If the phrase “voluntary compliance” in the IRS code is creating so much ambiguity for people, why don’t they just change it to “mandatory compliance” and leave no doubt?

2) Are there other laws that use the phrase “voluntary compliance” in the same way that the IRS tax code does? Or is that phrase only used there and in no other law?

3) As a variation of Question 2: We’ve used the traffic light analogy a lot. Do the laws related to stopping at a red light specifically use the phrase “voluntary compliance” as part of the law? Do the laws related to stopping at a red light use the word “mandatory” instead?

So don’t waste your time on it.

I don’t think the pro-freedom movement is helped by misinformation, and most of Aaron Russo’s film, as I recall, was misinformation about the tax code and its history. I know there was stuff later in the film about the Federal Reserve, but as someone knowledgeable about the subject matter of the first part of the film, I knew that the source was untrustworthy. You can’t be persuasive, even if you’re correct about something, after you’ve made yourself untrustworthy about something else. That is what Aaron Russo did to himself.

As far as paying income tax or not, Aaron said, “I would not advise anyone not to pay it”.

His work is more to expose, though, through other taxation and proposed taxation, what to watch out for. To give his insight. To wake people up. The more that is known about the Federal Reserve, CFR and others, hopefully, through elections, we can get politicians back with the people and for the people.

I wish he was still with us to comment about what is going on in our present times. I doubt Rockefeller ever told him anymore of their plan after they saw the movie he made, but, Aaron would be very outspoken as we see out country today slide into almost total tyranny.

The passage of the junk health care reform act is tyranny. You cannot force a U.S. Citizen to buy a product. I agree with the movement to do recall elections on all 60 senators that voted in favor of it and boot them from office. That can be done sooner, rather than later.