Quotes from Aaron Russo's AMERICA: FREEDOM TO FASCISM
- Approximately 67 million people don't file an income tax return. (Sherry Jackson, Former IRS Agent, in the film 2004)
- The definition of income in the Constitution was given in the Eisner v. Macomber case and it turns on gains or profits that are made from some activity. (Constitutional Law Professor Edwin Vieira, Jr., in film referring to 1920 U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined taxable income as that arising from corporate activity, not wages or income)
- Doyle versus Mitchell, 247 U.S. 179, 1918. Here's what it said. The idea of gain or increase arising from corporate activities. In other words, it (income tax) doesn't mean wages. It doesn't mean dividends. It doesn't mean alimony. It means a gain or a profit arising from corporate activity. (Irwin Schiff, Tax expert, in interview with Russo in 2004, referring to the U.S. Supreme Court decision that defined taxable income as that arising from corporate activity, not from wages or income)
- Chief among such contracts is that of personal employment by which labor and other services are exchanged for money or other terms of property. (Coppage v. Kansas, 236 U.S. 1.14 [1914] Decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1914)
- If Americans just learned that the IRS was actually knowingly deceiving them, then that would be enough for them to rise up and put a stop to it. (Joe Banister, Former IRS-CID, Criminal Investigator)
- The court says if it (labor) wasn't taxable before the 16th Amendment then it isn't taxable after the 16th Amendment. (Larken Rose, Tax Honesty, quoting the Supreme Court decision Peck vs. Lowe)
