U.S. Senator Harry Reid - “Taxation Is Voluntary”

Sure he's right. He probably doesn't pay taxes as Dashle didn't pay taxes. How about Charlie Rangel He probably doesn't have to pay taxes either. But I wonder just how this government can pay for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and still support 800 military facilities around the world and pay the CIA, The Pentagon and the defense department,The Federal Reserve Bank. Now that the FDIC is broke and has to boprrow money from the Banks we are in deepre doo doo. Every cent of money that Obama is spending today is debt pure debt and no way to ever pay it off. All of the treasury bonds sold to China are debt and no way in hell can nthe Chinese ever redeem them. Hah

the issue of taxation is beyond partisan politics... people need to wake up and look at how our economy is "working" and see for themselves what damage the federal reserve has done to this country.....

Oh my God what a fucking idiot.

Reid argues that it's voluntary because in other countries they automatically deduct the taxes...so that's not voluntary, but HERE you can choose to pay it later...

but if you don't pay, you go to jail or have all your assets taken, or both.

This is so revealing of the absolute IDIOCY of the Democrats. How can anyone possibly have any confidence in elected leaders who are that STUPID?!

Yes, taxes are voluntary. But if you choose not to pay, the IRS will have your ass thrown in jail, after they clean out your bank accounts.

Taxes are voluntary: you are free not to pay taxes just like you are free to accept the IRS smackdown that will ensue when they find out what choice you made. at least taxes arent taken out of your paycheck automatically...oh wait they are.

Even the IRS says paying taxes is voluntary. However, unless one is the Secretary of Treasury or a congressman, this voluntariness is done at the point of a gun.

Harry Reid, wrong about so many things is wrong about this also. It is only voluntary if you are paying taxes. NOt paying leads to a stint in the gulag as a political prisoner.

Something is wrong when a government jails its people for failure to pay their stipend. Isn't extortion wonderful???

Wesley Snipes thought that too!

Apparently Harry Reid is an asshole.

Harry Reed is a veteran politician and knows the politicians creed; say nothing, do nothing, see nothing. He could continue like this all day and still say nothing. One thing all Americans understand is FEAR and Fear is what they have from every agency of this government. Fear is how they have built up this power base over the past 100 years. But perhaps it will be their downfall.
See Harry Reed and the entire government thinks all of us are stupid and ignorant and we cannot prove otherwise. But just between you and I, Harry Reed is a sleezeball and he has been in many shady deals but like all politicians he has friends in the right places.

We have come so far from protecting individual liberty and private property in this country.
Who would voluntarily turn over the fruits of their labor to the crooks and thieves and Empire builders?
Never, ever again vote for someone that tells you you are free while they steal your property. All of your labor is your private property.
The new meaning of liberty. Altruism at gunpoint.

There seems to be some sort of semantical disagreement between the two. They both seem to be correct in there own mutual separate arguments but it seems that while the interviewer is stating the obvious argument that the terminology of "voluntary taxation" is a misnomer the Senator Harry Reid doesn't seem to understand why the use of the words taxation and voluntary together is a oxymoron. How the senator fails to comprehend this obvious fact is truly astonishing. Again I understand the definition of "voluntary taxation" and how it differs from involuntary taxation but the point is that putting the word voluntary in front of taxation does in no way shape or form change the inherently involuntary nature of taxation. Whether you are for or against taxation is irrelevant.

We voted this guy into office?....

The 16th ammendment contradicts the 13th. paying income tax is involuntary servitude any way you slice it.

Every time I hear about taxes, I think of Ed and Elaine Brown... they have kind of slipped under the radar and it is unfortunate because they took a stand, got media attention, but were somehow ignored after the next big headline came up.....

Well as he is putting it he is correct. We the American people do in fact voluntarily set our own taxes, but we do it as a group.

You also have the option to pay no taxes at all if you wish. All you have to do is be poor.

Usual happybunnies ethics complaints: It's mostly an ad. The article is another utube link he refuses to post in any fashion but as a click through ad it won't show up unless scripts on the peacefreedomhappybunnies site is allowed. Not utube scripts but actual site specific ones. I'm really going to have to take a look at that script. One wonders why goes through such contortions to make people run it.

What a web we weave when we try to deceive.

Taxation IS voluntary.

If you don't want to pay taxes, move to Somalia.

too late; the government beat you to that trick !

I have an idea, lets all quit paying taxes and have the Chinese pay for everything.

FLAT TAX!

Here in America volunteering is like the old Byzantium volunteering to accept Christianity. After Constantinius had laid down the plans for the new state religion, the people were told to accept Christianity or forfeit their heads. Of course most of the people hept their heads . Here in America you are told to volunteer to pay your taxes or sacrifice your freedom and be sentenced for life for not volunteeriing to pay your taxes. Remember... I want a thousand volunteers, you, you, and you too, You etc. Strange how power really does corrupt and gain strength.

No wonder the democrats NEVER seem to pay their taxes......

I wish I could name them all but there is just to many and y'all get the point

Don't forget Tim!

Toomre Capital Markets LLC ("TCM") wrote about the possible willful failure of Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner to pay his social security taxes during the 2001-2004 period when he was employed at the International Monetary Fund. Those posts were WSJ: IMF Informed Geithner on Taxes and Timothy Geithner Has Some Past Tax Problems.

lol and now he is the Treasury Secretary!!!

It is true they are voluntary but try not paying them when you aren't a Senator and see what happens...

I have a family member in court right now for tax evasion. He has the same beliefs as you do. How do you avoid 75 yrs. in jail and a hefty fine if this is true?

They're supposed to be. However, the Federal Reserve and IRS are so deep in the pockets of Americans that they are able to successfully detain people for NOT paying as well as being able to defend themselves in court despite not having one law in the book stating Taxation is Mandatory.