My, my, rankandfile, that’s a lot of venom towards me for simply pointing out the fact that trying to use these arguments in a tax case will not work and will result in additional penalties. I didn’t call anyone serfs or kooks or silly. Others have already pointed to the very detailed “Tax Protester FAQ” at http://evans-legal.com/dan/tpfaq.html, which addresses all of the specific arguments you bring up, so I won’t repeat most of it. I will point out the rather clear language of the 16th Amendment itself:

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”

Note the words “from whatever source derived” (no exception for labor and wages). The reason the courts ruled that the amendment didn’t create any new taxing power is because they held that Congress always had the power to tax incomes — the issue clarified in the amendment is that this could be done without regard to “apportionment among the several States.”

I’d prefer that the income tax be abolished, but that doesn’t mean I will swallow every argument someone tries to make against it. The arguments made in this thread (and elsewhere) claiming that the US Constitution doesn’t allow an income tax, etc., are entirely unconvincing to me.