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Somehow, it never went away, however; only the name changed. At the time,
almost no one connected the income tax with the PSTA.
World War II created for the International Bankers a golden opportunity.
Americans were willing to sacrifice almost anything for the United States
fighting forces if they thought that sacrifice would win the war. In that
atmosphere Congress passed the Victory Tax Act. It mandated an income
tax for the years 1943 and 1944 to be filed and paid in the years 1944 and
1945. The Victory Tax Act automatically expired at the end of 1944; it was
renewed for an additional two years and then again for five additional years.
The federal government, with the clever use of language, created the myth
that the tax was applicable to all Americans and hid the fact that it was a tax
only on Government employees.
Nowhere does the Internal Revenue Code define the “individual” who
is liable to pay the tax. This may explain why Congress has never converted
Title 26 of the U.S. Code into positive law. It contains no liability statute;
that is, it does not state who is liable to pay. Imagine the IRS taking someone
to court on tax charges who then argues that he is exempt because he works
for a private company, while the income tax depends on the Public Salary
Tax Act. Now imagine what would happen if the judge decided against him,
saying, “Everyone is subject to the PSTA.” He would have to admit publicly
that the government – rather, its creditors – owns every business in the
United States and that everyone is working for them! Either way he ruled, the
Government would lose!
Because of their desire to win the war and their ignorance of the law,
Americans filed and paid the tax. The government promoted the fraud and
threatened those who objected with jail or confiscation of their property.
Americans forgot or never knew the law had expired. When the date of
expiration had come and gone, they continued to keep “records,” continued
to file and continued to pay the tax. The federal government continued to
print returns and collect the tax, never mind the fact that no Citizen of any
of the several States of the Union was ever liable to pay the tax in the first
place.

Federal Power Limited

The fiction that “because it was an excise tax, it was legal” is not true. The
power of the federal government is limited to its own property as stated in
Article 1, Section 8, paragraph 17, and to “regulate Commerce with foreign