The individual income tax levid on the worker's wages, salary or other compensation for labor is nothing but slavery. Slaveowners never owned slaves for their meat or hide. They owned them for their labor. Whether 1% or 100% of a man's labor is confiscated, he is thereby enslaved. Slaveowners almost never took all of the produce of a man's labor. The slave would soon die. He had to be permitted to have something to eat and drink. He had to be allowed time to sleep. As a practical matter, he also had to be allowed some time to himself (recreation) or he would become despondent, lie down and die. All of it is slavery just the same. The US CONstitution never granted any power to the government to confiscate anyone's labor except as punishment for crime duly convicted. The Anti-Slavery amendment forbade ANYONE, including the government (especially - the Bill of Rights and the following similar amendments are first and foremost restrictions on government), from owning another human being. Fred, NO one owes any federal income taxes. They are VOLUNTARY contributions. 'Course, the IRS says, "Volunteer or we'll break your leg." "Your income tax is 100% voluntary tax, and your liquor tax is 100% enforced tax. The situation is as different as night and day" Dwight E. Avis Head of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Bureau of Internal Revenue Testimony before Congress