The Quiz:
SCORING
0 - 24% correct: I'm afraid you've gotten your "education"
exclusively from the IRS.
25 - 49% correct: Your heart's in the right place, but you
haven't yet started down the path to knowledge.
50 - 74% correct: You're well on the path, but still have
some studying to do.
75 - 99% correct: You're on the very verge of
self-empowerment...
100% correct: Hello,
CtC Warrior!
The Answer Key:
Question 1: The American People at some point granted the
federal government an ownership interest in the individual
productive output (or economic gain) of not only every
American alive at the time, but, by some mystical process,
also in that of those yet unborn.
True
False
Both
Why should I care, I'm just a kid...
Correct response: "False". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 2: Americans have equipped the federal government
with the power of a king-- that government can assert an
ownership interest at will and seize what it wishes from the
citizenry (although anyone aggrieved by the misuse of this
power can try to vote abusers out of office afterward, if
they haven't starved to death before election day).
True
False
Neither
I'm just looking, Your Majesty! Please don't punish me!!
Correct response: "False". I trust no commentary is needed
here...
Question 3: The federal government has ownership interests
only in its own property and delegated powers, and can only
prosecute non-contract-based claims accordingly, relying on
allegations of one of the aforementioned ownership
connections.
True
False
Maybe
I don't think I'm allowed to make conclusions about
things like this...
Correct response: "True". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 4: The "income" that the federal government can tax
(that is, revenue in which it can assert an ownership
interest) is "all that comes in" (that is, any or all
revenue realized by anyone for doing anything).
True
False
I'm going to ask the IRS
Whatever you say, your Worship!
Correct response: "False". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 5: The only "income" that the federal government
can tax is the gainful revenue which results from the use of
its own property or delegated powers.
True
False
How can that be?
My tax attorney says to STAY AWAY from this site!
Correct response: "True". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 6: "Information returns" (W-2s, 1099s, K-1s, etc.)
are intended solely for the reporting of federally-connected
"income" payments (and, in some cases, reporting amounts
deposited against the possibility of tax liabilities being
eventually defined), and all payments reported on an
"information return" will be taken to be such, unless and
until rebutted.
True
False
Huh?
But that would mean that most payers are violating the
Eighth Commandment!
Correct response: "True". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 7: The Founders (and framers) deliberately
restrained the ability of the federal government to acquire
revenue at will in the fundamental law (the Constitution),
because:
a. There is no legitimate basis of principle by which
any government can assert an ownership interest, or
claim of right, to someone else's property or proceeds
without their consent;
b. They wished to prevent special interests from gaining
influence in the government and enriching themselves at
the expense of others;
c. They wished to prevent the government from being able
to purchase the political sway necessary for it to
escape the chains of the Constitution in other respects
without effective impediment and from financing "swarms
of officers" who will "harass our people" and "eat out
their substance".
d. All of the above.
Correct response: "d". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 8: Knowing that every payment to you which
is reported on an "information return" (a W-2, 1099 or K-1)
is being alleged to have resulted from your conduct of a
federally taxable activity, which of the following courses
of action best serves to support the Founders and uphold the
fundamental law in the face of incorrect information
return reports:
a. Filing a return adopting those incorrect allegations
as your own testimony (by transferring reported payment
amounts to your own return, and/or attaching the
"information return" to your return), and quietly
accepting the resulting imposition of tax;
b. Rebutting the incorrect allegations, and testifying
to what is actually true regarding the amount of
federally taxable activity you engaged in during the
previous year, in the single format Congress has
required the executive branch (IRS and Treasury Dept.)
to recognize and accept (a return);
c. Refusing to file a return at all-- thus acquiescing
to the incorrect allegations by silence (default);
d. Refusing to file a return but sending letters,
non-return affidavits, legal arguments, etc. to the tax
agencies in a barrage of square pegs flung at the round
hole into which nothing but a return will fit, and which
will therefore all be ignored.
Correct response: "b". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 9: Tax agencies have the legal authority to:
a. Disregard a 1040-filer's testimony;
b. Give greater weight to agency-preferred allegations
on an "information return" than to the declarations on a
1040;
c. Rule a return "frivolous" and treat it as never filed
(and/or impose a penalty) because what is reported as
"income" received disagrees with allegations made on
"information returns";
d. None of the above.
Correct response: "d". Click
here and
here for some relevant observations.
Question 10: By letting "information return" allegations
that your economic activities are federally-connected stand
uncorrected-- either by your adoption of those allegations,
or by your effective silence-- you:
a. Validate and make real government claims to an
ownership interest in those activities, and the
imposition of a related tax;
b. Support presumptions of federal authority over how
you conduct your economic activities;
c. Both (a) and (b);
d. None of the above.
Correct response: "c". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 11: Creating "information returns" (W-2s, 1099s,
K-1s, etc.) about others (all of which inherently allege
that payments YOU made involved federally-connected taxable
activities):
a. Supports government claims to an ownership interest
in YOUR activities, and the imposition of related taxes
on YOU;
b. Support presumptions of federal authority over how
you conduct your business;
c. Both (a) and (b);
d. None of the above.
Correct response: "c". Click
here for some relevant observations.
Question 12: Letting the federal government tax what is not
really subject to tax under the law, either by declaring the
receipts of others to be federally-connected when they are
not (through the creation of incorrect "information
returns"), or by actively or passively declaring your own
receipts to be taxable when they really are not:
a. Utterly thwarts the Founder's wise safeguards;
b. Unleashes and equips Leviathan to trample from sea to
shining sea (and beyond);
c. Allows Leviathan to do its trampling with your
implicit approval;
d. All of the above.
Correct response: "d". Click
here for some relevant observations.