There were income taxes long before the ratification of the 16th amendment.
And the courts consistently ruled the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT could not tax income.
Duh.
Already been said.
And who endowed them with that power? No one alive today. The social contract created by the Founders was not entered into you or myself voluntarily and is thus null and void.
What social contract? I don't recall signing any documents. But if you don't like the Constitution, there's nothing stopping you from getting outside it's jurisdiction.
And what gives a gang of man the to forcefully steal from the individual? What you call tariffs on the governmental level is nothing more than racketeering.
No, it's called "border control".
Socialism is theft.
Collectivism is theft.
Capitalism is ownership of private property.
Glad we managed to make that all clear now.
And what the hell is the difference between the voluntary contractual agreement between two citizens of the same country and two citizens of different countries?
Armies and Navies.
Why does one imply the legitimization of theft by a gang of men and the other does not?
The will of the people.
The rule of law.
The essential stabilities and freedoms necessary for civilization, not anarchy.
Because that's how human nature works in the real world. You know, the place where anarchist fantasies can't happen the way the anarchist like to pretend they do.
What gave them that right? I never entered into any contractual agreement with any state or collective granting them control over the fruits of my labor.
Your voluntary presence in the United States itself obligates you a minimalist behavorial set that contributes to the upkeep of the country, as defined by the Constitution itself. So you get to pay for the military. Nothing unconstitutional there. You get to pay for the courts and the law enforcement. You get to pay for the limited government the Constitution defines.
That's you obligation as a citizen or legal resident of this nation.
Which isn't to say that there's not a container shipload of utter socialist BULL that you're being forced to pay because the Constitution is being raped.
But if you want to live in a country, you have to do you part to support the country. Don't like it here? Move to Somalia. Don a burqa.
I as a human being am entitled to the inalienable right of self ownership which means I owe no good or service to ANYBODY!!!
Not true. As a community of citizens you're at least obligated to pay for the defense and operation of that community. People aren't woodpeckers, that live alone and fly from tree to tree to tree looking for bugs to eat. People evolved as social animals with social cooperativeness an essential behavioral trait. People who don't want to pay their own way don't travel far on the backs of others.
It is both. There are both minarchists and anarchists within the Libertarian party, the minarchists have given up on principle for the sake of elective pragmatism.
There may be anarchists in the LP, but that just means they're either more stupid than your typical anarchist, or liars, though this does not mean they can't be both.
The state and individual sovereignty are mutually exclusive concepts.
Wrong.
There's limits on both state and individual sovereignity in non-overlapping fields. The state has the authority and the power to declare a person a criminal for violating another person's sovereignity. A person does not have this power or authority.
The sovereignity of the State and the sovereignity of the Individual are Complementary concepts.
I never said one word of condemnation to you personally.