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Dauntless: “You assert that a business owner would be breaking the ‘law’ by not withholding their employee’s taxes. I challenge you to post that law to this message board. Good luck finding it, though.”

Let’s say that tomorrow morning the United States Congress and the several states all pass a Constitutional amendment, stating that Congress has the power to impose an individual income tax, and each individual citizen is legally obliged to pay it. If they did this, would you recognize the authority of Congress to take your money from you by force?

If so, why do you think that the demand is made any less arbitrary just by putting it in writing?

If not, then why does it matter whether the government is working from written law or not? The “law” would be a naked usurpation without any moral excuse, whether or not it was formally written down.