The Modern Tax Protester Movement
The modern tax protester movement appears to have originated in the 1940s and then to have become, in the mid-1970s, a phenomenon specifically characterized by legally frivolous arguments as some people came to assert that the federal tax on individual income is nonexistent, unconstitutional, or inapplicable to various forms of income such as wages.
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