A Birthright Lost: Decoding the Internal Revenue Code - Gary Zink, Paperback

• Release Date   7/22/2011
• ISBN-13   9780615507033 | 978-0-615-50703-3
• ISBN   0615507034 | 0-615-50703-4
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Gary Zink
• The only things certain in this life are death and taxes. That sermon makes for a good lesson if only it was true. Fortunately for the wage earner the adage is demonstrably false. A Birthright Lost analyzes the correct application of the U.S. income tax as it affects the wage earner. its thesis contends that it is a basic misunderstanding of the tax code that informs our current economic malaise and confusion. Taxes. Regardless of socio-economic position or political leanings, the subject arouses passion, opinion, and action. Such was the case for the author, who has spent much of the last thirty-five years analyzing the U.S. Constitution, the Internal Revenue Code, and the Code of Federal regulations. His efforts have resulted in an unorthodox and provocative notion: that the fruits of one’s labor do not in every instance become necessarily subject to the "income tax". In his new book, A Birthright Lost: Decoding the Internal Revenue Code, Mr. Zink conveys his belief that “as long as the public remains unaware of the true nature of federal income taxation, the government will continue to recklessly spend the public treasury unabated.” Zink notes, “Everybody, including agents of tax enforcement, knows without a doubt they have an income tax liability. An insurmountable problem arises respecting real tax reform since nobody, including those same government agents, are capable of identifying exactly how that tax liability is imposed upon their wages by the law Congress enacted.” A Birthright Lost addresses several proposals made over the years to reform the federal tax code and discusses why both the so-called “flat tax” and the “fair tax,” each promoted by different factions, contain significant flaws that would result in either being deemed unconstitutional if ever they were to be adopted. "However", Zink laments, “to be effective, it will require a massive re-edification of a populace that long ago ceased to understand the true nature of personal property with the ultimate realization that a person’s most basic embodiment of personal property is actually one’s own labor.” Although the IRS falsely attributes a person's wages as "taxable income" under Subtitle-A of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), revealed within is a dirty little secret hiding in plain sight. Indeed, even though wages are definitely income subject to the income tax imposed under the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (F.I.C.A.) tax found in Subtitle-C of the IRC, the language of the Code itself clearly demonstrates that a person's wages do not automatically become "income" derived from a "source" and thus subject to a second income tax imposed under Subtitle-A.