As I tell my kids, legal doesn’t always translate to moral and moral isn’t always legal.

Whether or not this particular tax is legal doesn’t bear on it’s morality.

If, and I agree that it is, income tax is immoral then so is any other tax that isn’t voluntary and the thing I disagree with is when the tax protest folks make the claim that if only income tax was actually legal they would gladly pay it. That is not a particularly principled stand although it is gutsy. If income tax is immoral, it is immoral whether or not it is legal and they should be no more glad to pay it if legal than if it isn’t legal.

For some inexplicable reason the feds dismissed some of the more serious charges that could have resulted in jail time for Tommy.

The taxes he owes have not been waived or dismissed and they will be collected by the same civil procedures that IRS uses to collect from everybody else.

These are the same methods that they are using to garnish Vernice Kuglin’a FedEx salary for back taxes. She was also acquitted of failure to file and tax evasion. Don’t matter a bit, IRS is collecting the taxes she should have paid and it’s legal. The up side is that she isn’t in prison.

For the record, I am in favor of abolishing income tax, but hanging your hat on obscure technicalities simply isn’t going to accomplish very much. The federales are not going to relinquish a trillion dollar revenue stream because Irwin Schiff says that we don’t really have to pay income tax on wages. There’s almost 90 years of legal precedent that says otherwise.

And, let’s assume for the sake of argument that the Supers strike down income tax as illegal on those very grounds. How long do you think it will take CONgress to amend the code to make income tax legal? I’d say, a voice vote would take about an hour.

In as far as taxes are not voluntary, they are immoral. However, our American legal system says that income tax is completely legal.