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How Current U.S. Tax System Violates Constitutional Rights
How Current U.S. Tax System Violates Constitutional Rights
For IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 3, 2002
Contact: Misty Woodruff, 888-557-4474 or misty@ipi.orgDallas, TX – The unchecked power to tax and enforce the collection of taxes takes away U.S. citizens’ inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, according to an Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) study by Daniel J. Pilla, a tax attorney and director of the Tax Freedom Institute.
“Throughout history, there has been a well-documented and undeniable friction between the cause of liberty and the growth of government,” said Pilla. “Nowhere has this friction become more apparent and detrimental than in the area of taxation.”
According to Pilla’s study, the current income tax system infringes upon our Constitutional rights in a number of ways, including:
· Violating the equal protection clause.
· Ignoring the fundamental legal tenet that a citizen is “innocent until proven guilty.”
· Among others: Neglecting the seventh amendment right to trial by jury, invading citizens’ privacy as protected in the fourth amendment, and overlooking the right against self-incrimination as provided for in the fifth amendment.
Who: Dan Pilla,
Tax attorney and director of the Tax Freedom Institute
Unconstitutional Tax System Commentary
What: Dan Pilla addresses how the current tax system violates the
Constitutional principles of Americans in a new IPI study:
“A Monument of Deficient Wisdom: The Constitutional
Conflict in Federal Income Tax Enforcement”.
The report is one of fifteen studies in IPI’s comprehensive
“Roadmap to Tax Reform” series.
When: Available immediately for TV, radio and print.
Contact: Misty Woodruff, 888-557-4474 or misty@ipi.org
