I would just like one person to show me where it says that you have to pay taxes in our Constitution. No taxation without representation? I didn’t vote for the person in office, does that mean I don’t have to pay? This is the issue at hand, and it needs to be more clear to US citizens. Taxing an American’s paycheck is stealing money in my opinion. They take it before I even touch it, and they tax me at about 24%. That is equal to one paycheck a month. Now how is that fair to me? That someone who I didn’t vote for gets to decide how much money they take from me, and how much I get back at the begining of the year. They are taking our money, using it to beg borrow and steal money from other countries, and look at how other countries feel about ours! Oh, then they tell me I can have it back in Feb. or Mar. I think that if they are going to borrow, so to speak, our money for profit, that, we the American public should be allowed interest gain on what we get back every year. Also, who in the world decided to punish the poor more! The more you take from me, the less I have, the less I have, the less I spend(or can). The more you take from these rich snobs, the less likely they are to be snobs! Stop $%^^**^&^% over the little guy, just so you can get rich!

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/general/view.bg?articleid=1070051

Come on, Hartman.

If you don’t like it you have two options:

A) Pull a Snipes, don’t pay, and face the consequences, or
B) Move — may I suggest Switzerland, Canada, or The Netherlands, where you will at least get free health care with your tax payments.

It’ll never change. Suck it up and get on with it.

Ry

What a jerk. I pay taxes, you pay taxes, most people pay their taxes. It isn’t pleasant, but we do it. He deserves to go to jail for a while.

Wesley was thinking that he could get away with not paying millions in taxes! That is what he was thinking! I hope he has to do some serious time!!

Cynthia, Covington, Ga.

Lisa - I couldn’t agree with you more - I had the displeasure of meeting Wesley Snipes at a film festival many years ago - while other stars and directors were gracious and happy to have their work showcased - Snipes was arrogant and full of himself

The publicity machines around celebrities fuel their arrogance and make them think that they are above the law.

I hope this jury shows that we are all alike when it comes to death and taxes!

There is NO law that requires us to file income TAX 1040. I challenge anyone to find it. Read the constitution people. Ron Paul U go Boy!!!

Well I suggest that people who think we don’t have to pay taxes to move to another country and actually see how good we have it here taxes and all! I bet you in a year you’ll be exuberantly coming back and even be willing to pay your share!

Cynthia, Covington, Ga.

Seriously Hartman…since no one else will say it; you’re a bone-head. You think you don’t have pay taxes because you didn’t vote for our current president? You say “Taxing an American’s paycheck is stealing our money.” Are you kidding? We all agreed to this practice when we got jobs here. You don’t HAVE to live here, ya know. You think the poor are being punished? Do you realize that the more money a person earns, the higher their tax bracket? In addition to that, we’re taxed a percentage of our earnings. Some people (and I’m one of them) pay nearly twice the rate you pay AND on a bigger number. Jeeez!

The next time you’re looking at your withholdings, consider all that America provides for you; police, fire dept, military, paved roads, various health care, libraries, umm…freedom, etc, etc, etc. Shall I go on?

Snipes needs to pay his fair share and you need to get a clue.

Income taxes were first levied in 1862 by Congress and President Lincoln during the Civil War. Before that the federal government relied on tariffs on whiskey and other items to fund the government. The 1862 law not only established the income tax but also established the IRS. In 1868 the income tax was revealed, making a comeback for a brief time in the 1890s. In 1913, the 16th Amendment to the Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in the U.S. tax system. The amendment gave Congress legal authority to tax income and resulted in a revenue law that taxed incomes of both individuals and corporations.

So the income tax is in the Constitution in the amendments. Perhaps Mr. Snipes didn’t read the Constitution fully or he doesn’t include the amendments as part of the Constitution?? If not, then he’s thrown out free speech, a free press, freedom of religion, freedom to bear arms, etc. Mr. Snipes just didn’t want to pay taxes and now is scrambling with this flimsy excuse so he won’t have to go to jail. I don’t care if he goes to jail; in fact, I think that is self-defeating because how will he pay what he owes sitting in a jail cell? I do hope he has to pay the full amount with penalties and interest - the rest of us would have to; there should be no special treatment for a celebrity.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

Governor Romney was a very good leader of our state in Massachusetts.
His health care program was a government laboratory for the rest of the nation.
As President he will lead the nation with health care for all
You should of asked if Senator McCain is a flip-flopper on the issues?
On Immigration

Huckabee and Paul were rarely included in tonights so called informative debates. I pray that in the future cnn will care more about giving us information about each candidate and less hollywood he said she said nonsense. Give us the facts please about where each candidate stands, period.

you are my sonshine my only son shine you make me happy when your hair is gray
you will always know dear how much i love you because i stalk you every day

What about Martha Stewart? Unless the judge/jury or whoever put her in jail were wrong, she also did something that made you go “Huh?”

It’s called standing up for informed principle. Maybe you would feel better about yourself if you did the same?

This military empire we ‘need to protect us’ from the boogie man only exists, and seeks to make the constitution obsolete, because of our tax money.

The one thing I would like from CNN and all of the news organizations is an explanation as for the lack of coverage of Ron Paul’s campaign. At the outset I would like to add I am NOT a supporter. However, the man is a candidate for the office of president of the United States! There is a huge disservice being done to ordinary Americans who get their political news and learn about these candidates’ platforms from cable networks. Is he not mainstream enough? Rich enough? Important enough? Is he not entrenched enough into the Washington machine? He sure as heck does have some interesting and intelligent things to say which we only get choice opportunity to hear during debates. Even then he is rarely questioned and the commentators would rather talk afterwards about Romney’s hair than anything substantive that Paul has to say.

The networks effectively prevent the nation from being fully educated in our choices….and people wonder why we cannot break out of the typical stagnation of ideas and unadulterated crap that is fed to us on a daily basis by the same old establishment politicians….

You’ve got it all wrong. In the photo, he’s pointing at the heavens as in “The big man upstairs pays my taxes.” It’s just a little misunderstanding. Hopefully, his respite behind bars goes quickly. Interesting… you’ve got a stalker alert on the blog and they didn’t even spell “sunshine” correctly. Don’t you hate when that happens?

Hartman, I agree with you that income tax seems unfair. I suggest you read up on the Fair Tax which removes the IRS completely, replacing it with a tax on purchases. We’d get to keep every penny we earn, paying tax only on what we buy. So people who have incomes but don’t claim it such as drug dealers, some illegal aliens , people who sell stuff on the internet, and many others who have mysterious and continuous sources of income would pay into the revenue system, relieving people such as you and I who see our withholding creep up every year to pay for social services for the above - mentioned “tax evaders”.

Wait a minute…did you just say that what Snipes did was ILLEGAL??? No. You are very wrong. It is not illegal for us to not pay our income tax BECAUSE…..it is illegal for them to tax us in sucha manner in the first place. Nowhere in the Constitution nor in the Tax Code of 1913 does it say that we can be taxed on our wages. The income tax and the IRS are both illegal, not the actions made by Mr. Snipes. The sooner Americans realize that our money is being stolen from us to do things we disagree with, the better

I’m confused…I’ve watched the documentary “America: Freedom to Fascism” and former IRS employees state there really is no law to collect income tax. The IRS was basically compared to mobsters who strong arm us if we do not pay money. A citizen was arrested for not paying income tax and was found not guilty by his peers because Prosecutors could not provide proof that such a law exists. He is now exempt from paying income tax so why are we?

You guys are forgetting that %80 percent of our income tax goes to pay interest on our national debt. If we get rid of the private orginization that is the federal reserve and have our government make our money then we wouldn’t need the income tax as we would have no debt for our nation to pay.

this is what you are all missing.

also it is chapter 26 of our laws that dictate that we have to pay income taxes, if you dont want to pay them and you think it is unconstitutional then get the supreme court to overrule it instead of whining about it.

It seems many of the people posting here don’t seem to understand the true nature of the IRS and our tax “Law”

The truth is THERE IS NO LAW!

Most citizens seem to think that the federal income tax goes to pay for goverment, when it in fact DOES NOT. Don’t just take my word for it.. Go do the research and find out for yourself. The federal income tax simply goes to the “Federal Reserve” to pay for interest on the debt money that this organization prints out of thin air. The Federal Reserve is neither Federal nor a Reserve. It is in fact a private bank that has incrementally hijacked the American monetary system. From the start, from the time of our founding fathers we have been warned over and over that international bankers would do this, and that it is a threat to freedom itself.

Listen to the mindless sheeple! Look at how they believe their enslavement is their salvation!

The 16th Amendment was not ratified! The income tax is Illegal!!