Digging Deeper

Microsoft Copilot: Avoiding privileges alltogether

By ftsig-admin / November 18, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Avoiding privileges alltogether

INTRODUCTION: QUESTION 1: Explain how those who are “citizens” under 8 U.S.C. 1401 can renounce the privileges AFTER birth and retain only national status. It seems one can have allegiance and yet REJECT protection. Some method of doing that must be legally provided or we have slavery. ANSWER 1: This is a very sharp question,…

Microsoft Copilot: Does working for the federal government automatically mean the earnings are connected with a “trade or business” under Title 26 of the U.S. Code?

By ftsig-admin / November 13, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Does working for the federal government automatically mean the earnings are connected with a “trade or business” under Title 26 of the U.S. Code?

QUESTION 1: Does being a public officer by virtue of military service also automatically cause the same human filling said office to be engaged in a “trade or business” under Title 26 of the U.S. Code? ANSWER 1: No, being a public officer by virtue of military service does not automatically mean the individual is…

Microsoft Copilot: Does the Ordinary Meaning Canon refer to the PRIVATE or the PUBLIC context for the word?

By ftsig-admin / November 9, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Does the Ordinary Meaning Canon refer to the PRIVATE or the PUBLIC context for the word?

INTRODUCTION: The Ordinary Meaning Canon applies to scenarios where a word appears in a statute but is never defined. More on this subject at: QUESTION 1: Does the Ordinary Meaning Canon of statutory construction imply the PRIVATE context for the word, or the PUBLIC context for a word? See: Congressional Research Service Report R45153, Statutory…

Microsoft Copilot: Legal Violations Resulting from Constitutional States acting as Federal Territories

By ftsig-admin / November 9, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Legal Violations Resulting from Constitutional States acting as Federal Territories

INTRODUCTION: More on this subject at: QUESTION 1: The California Revenue and Taxation Code Sections 6017 and 17018 suggest that there are actually TWO Californias: 1. The de jure state under its organic constitution. 2. A de facto federal corporation acting as an agent of the national government over federal property consistent with the definition…

Microsoft Copilot: Are those invoking the benefits of a civil statutory status government actors with the government as the real principal?

By ftsig-admin / October 29, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Are those invoking the benefits of a civil statutory status government actors with the government as the real principal?

QUESTION 1: 1. A public officer is legally defined as someone IN CHARGE of the property of the public. 2. Civil statutory statuses are legislatively created and owned by their government creator. 3. Invoking a civil statutory status within a government statute is an acceptance and use of public property by those so doing. QUESTIONS:…

Microsoft Copilot: Is a state or the national government offering franchises extraterritorially unconstitutional or illegal?

By ftsig-admin / October 25, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Is a state or the national government offering franchises extraterritorially unconstitutional or illegal?

INTRODUCTION: This line of questions documents the “beach-head” in the fight against government franchises and how to fight them. Background information on this subject for those wishing to study further: QUESTION 1: Can you give me a list of authorities forbidding any state from offering franchises or privileges through civil statutes to people in other…

Microsoft Copilot: What type of Constitutional tax is a tax on government employees or officers ONLY?

By ftsig-admin / October 22, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: What type of Constitutional tax is a tax on government employees or officers ONLY?

QUESTION 1: What specific constitutional provision authorizes taxation of government employees ONLY? Is it Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2? ANSWER 1: No, Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2—known as the Property Clause—does not authorize taxation of government employees. That clause gives Congress the power to manage and regulate federal territories and property, stating: “The…

Microsoft Copilot: Government health insurance/coverage for Nonresident Aliens who Served in the Military

By ftsig-admin / October 16, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Government health insurance/coverage for Nonresident Aliens who Served in the Military

QUESTION 1: For those who are retired from the military with VA coverage and over 65 and without Medicare, what is the degree of availability of healthcare and the criteria for eligibility? ANSWER 1: If you’re a military retiree over 65 with VA health coverage but no Medicare, your access to care is limited to…

SEDM Theology AI Chatbot: What should Christians “render” to Caesar?

By ftsig-admin / September 26, 2025 / Comments Off on SEDM Theology AI Chatbot: What should Christians “render” to Caesar?

SOURCE: SEDM AI Chatbots**https://sedm.org/ai-chat/Theology AI Chatbot**https://sedm.org/sedm-theology-chat-bot/ More on this subject at: QUESTION 1: According to the Bible, God created everything. Because He created it, He is the owner. If Jesus said render to Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and the Bible implies that everything belongs to God, what does that leave to render? Would that…

Microsoft Copilot: Taxability of government retirement as deferred compensation under 26 U.S.C. 864(c)(6)

By ftsig-admin / September 11, 2025 / Comments Off on Microsoft Copilot: Taxability of government retirement as deferred compensation under 26 U.S.C. 864(c)(6)

INTRODUCTION: For more on the subject of these questions, see: QUESTION 1: Below are maxims of law dealing with privileges: “Actio personalis moritur cum persona. A personal action dies with the person. This must be understood of an action for a tort only.” Privilegium est beneficium personale et extinguitur cum person. A privilege is a…