Oh, like passive aggressive

I’m glad that America is so benevolent and non-aggressive, especially in the Middle East. Liked that lovely old man on the corner telling the kids not to fight with each other because it’s not nice.

OK, I've rethunk my statement, I realize I actually contradicted myself. If doing this in the interest of allies, then yes you would call this aggression, because it's not necessarily being done to the benefit of the natives.

Sad but true

The American Bar Association has nothing to do with the British Bar. Practicing before one doesn't let you practice before the other.

"Why does the law apply..." Criminal law is different from contract law. Tax law is different from either. You should probably read up on the actual law, instead of reading conspiracy theories.

@Paul4747 This is why I said "Heard Rumor' not fact concerning the BAR comment. The Federal Government did go bankrupt on March 9, 1933. Under Criminal Law isn't there supposed to be an injured party? Why is it that people are charged with victimless crimes under criminal law? Tax law is abused just the same. Not a conspiracy theory. The federal government is making folks believe they owe a direct tax known as federal income tax when in fact all direct taxes are to be paid by the states. It is much more complicated in the perverse misapplication of the law by calling it an indirect excise tax on wages which is by definition the profit from a business activity. I attended several sessions with John Kotmair of SAPF who not only had the Income Tax code (Subtitle A) and Employment taxes (Subtitle C) but also the regs which were much more detailed than the codes. It was enlightening for a novice like myself to see the amount of effort our leaders put into deception using common words which under legalize mean one thing while to the common man mean something completely different . Truly epic....

@warlord13 I don't have time. Just read the 16th Amendment.

@Paul4747 I don't have the time either....but on that 16th Amendment:

But, aside from the obvious error of the proposition, intrinsically considered, it manifestly disregards the fact that by the previous ruling it was settled that the provisions of the 16th Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, ...

Stanton v. Baltic Mining Co., 240 U.S. 103 (1916)

There is no new power of taxation with the 16th amendment further....There is no power of direct - unapportioned taxation.

Further study can be found at: [synapticsparks.info]

I know exactly what/how they are pushing this through...by calling it a indirect excise but the tax really does not fit into that classification. But men with bigger guns than we have say it does

Britain please. The Scots, Welsh and Irish have to take some of the blame

@Moravian that's harsh

Well that is probably true now. Scotland was seen as an extension of England , or North Britain, but the canny Scots got their share of the loot from the British empire. Glasgow wasn't called the second city of the British Empire for nothing.

An empire is either continually expanding or it begins to collapse and ceases to be an empire. The U.S. is no longer expanding since the annexation of Hawaii. The next logical acquisition would seem to be Puerto Rico. However, inasmuch as it is way less attractive than Hawaii or Alaska, most Americans do not want it. Therefore, the U.S. has passed its zenith and is currently in decline.

@Green_lucifer Morovian is correct. For whatever reason a high proportion of Americans equate England and Britain as the same thing. Go back to 1707 and you will see why that isn’t so.

Not really sure what the American Empire consists of. It certainly doesn’t compare with British, Russian or French!