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In lengthy filings to the IRS, the three defendants claimed they did not legally have to pay taxes, citing an obscure section of the tax code that establishes that foreign sources of income for U.S. citizens are taxable. Protesters take that to mean only foreign sources are taxable, and wages made in this country are not.
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That's weird. I thought these sorts of arguments were typically based on the 16th Amendment being invalid.
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Snipes also argued in long, bizarre letters that he was a nonresident alien; that the IRS terrorizes and deceives citizens; and that efforts to prosecute him would cause "increased collateral risk."
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Ah yes. Now we finally get to the part where he's actually a nutcase who's been hiding behind a great publicist all these years.