If Wesley Snipes says income tax is wrong, then it’s wrong! 
Arguments people use for not paying income tax.
1st Amendment - This is the whole, “I’m going to create my own religion and be tax exempt.” business. Internal Revenue Code makes an exemption for religious institutions, in the form of special tax codes and deductions. It does not make an exception though. you still have to pay taxes.
5th Amendment - The Takings Clause, which I stated in the Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad case, doesn’t free you from taxes. Nor does the self incrimination part. United States v. Sulliivan took care of that.
5th Amendment arguments have a long storied case history of being pwned by the courts and dismissed.
13th Amendment - Yes, the amendment that abolished slavery. People argued that being forced to pay income tax, amounted to involuntary servitude, which was declared unconstitutional by the 13th Amendment. This argument has been declared a “legally frivolous federal tax return position” and is subject to a $5000 fine.
14th Amendment - Also, one of the post-Civil War amendments. The 14th defines citizenship, and says all citizens of the US are subject to Federal law. Anti-tax people argue that this amendment was not ratified properly, because of the ante-bellum status of the governments of the secessionist Southern states. They claim those state governments did not reflect the will of the people, and that anythin they ratified was not in line with the people’s (slave owning Confederates) will.
Those are the biggies, my book goes on and on, but I’m getting tired.
The income tax is Constitutional.
