Monday, January 01, 2007

Tax Protesters

James Ostrowski reports:
Much tax protester time is spent praying to the Constitution. Big problem. Constitutions don't limit government power because the government has claimed the exclusive right to say what they mean.

More importantly, the Constitution is a legal document. Law is a reflection of pre-legal values. The values that gave rise to the Constitution are in large part dead. The vast majority of the public no longer holds them. You might as well be speaking Chinese to them.

Worse yet, a large portion of the population is on the federal dole. They'll favor the tax authorities over the most elegant legal arguments against the legality of the federal income tax. This is the tax protesters' biggest problem and yet I have never heard them address it!
How "objective" can interpreting a constitution be when a government worker called a judge does the "interpreting"?