Time: Wed Dec 03 12:55:50 1997 To: BobRaymond@aol.com From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: U.S.A vs ROBERT RAYMOND et al Cc: Bcc: sls References: You now have a bona fide controversy at law, because the 16th amendment [sic] was cited as authority for the income tax in the Federal Register. Details are available in "The Federal Zone: Cracking the Code of Internal Revenue," electronic seventh edition. The Federal Register Act controls. /s/ Paul Mitchell, Candidate for Congress http://supremelaw.com At 01:50 PM 12/3/97 -0500, you wrote: >Paul >I wanted to pass along something that the Dept of Justice put in a brief in >our case. I am citing paragraph 4 of their " Plaintiffs Motion to Dismiss >Counterclaim". > 4. Since the power of Congress to lay and collect income taxes is not >derived from the Sixteenth Amendment, but from Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 >of the Constitution, defendants' counterclaims, which seek a declaratory >judgment limiting the application of the Sixteenth Amendment to "the extent >of Interstate source derived income," fail to state a claim upon which relief >could be granted. > > I thought you would find it interesting that the Gov't derives its authority >from some source other than the Sixteenth Amendment. >Bob Raymond > >
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