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To: lbs1989 who wrote (55084)	1/7/2008 1:32:18 PM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 78428

You don't have to pay income tax. There is no law saying you have to. It is a voluntary process. Evasion is misrepresentation, or fraud. Not paying at all is a whole other matter. However in the Cheek case, it was made to appear so. In order to avoid paying taxes and avoiding prosecution one might have to resort to the simple expedient of making no money whatsoever. This can be accomplished easily by buying great quantities of worthless stocks which purport to extract resources, selling them to some third party after a suitable time, thereby claiming capital losses. It is relatively easy as well to arrange to make no money by declaring your primary business as one of investment, and failing miserably at that by ill considered management of funds. Another procedure is to try honestly to make money at any ordinary business where one has to hire employees. One can easily see that it is exceedingly difficult to show any sort of profit under today's regulatory schemes and business climate, so problem solved. There has never been a successful prosecution against an individual for voluntarily not paying tax for conscientious reasons or omission. That is because there is no statute declaring that it is incumbent on the individual to do so. The CDN government has recently made it a penalty not to file, hoping to trap people who ordinarily fail to do so into making statements that can result in prosecution. Canada is a basic ad hoc police state without any constitutional protection against unjust government for its citizens. (It's citizens have no basic rights under constitutional law, and the Bill of Rights passed by the Diefenbaker Government is not incumbent on the Provinces to ratify or recognize.) Provinces under the Canadian constitution (which chose to try to replace its inherited constitution of the body of British statute and common law, the various statues of Westminster and BNA Acts) can opt out of Federal laws or constitutional requirements for cultural reasons by the notwithstanding clause, so in effect no single constitutional provision provides a citizen with any protection against cultural or other legally cloaked harassment in a province. Quebec could send everyone of its cultural minorities to slave camps and force them to learn a foreign language on the pain of death, and there is nothing the Federal government could do about it, nor is there any redress for the citizen against this for this under the constitution or other law. *****************************************