TweetYeah, I've heard that before and I had a long talk with my CPA about and he said this...."Don't pay them and see what happens." Let's face it, you WILL go to jail. Look at Wesley Snipes, if they had no right to take taxes then he would not be in jail. Certainly if there was any accuracy to this, the defendants lawyers would know it. But yet, people go to jail every year for tax evasion, so it's BS.
The truth is this country did in fact start the income tax to help pay for war (I forget if it was WWI or WWII). It was supposed to go away after the war, but it didn't. Since then, the government has changed the tax amount. That required an act of congress, so taxes are therefore legal. If Congress say we have to pay XX percent, then that makes it enforecible.
Anyway, that's how my CPA expalined it to me.