Digging Deeper

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

By ftsig-admin / October 25, 2025 / Comments Off on 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…

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

By ftsig-admin / October 22, 2025 / Comments Off on 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…

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

By ftsig-admin / October 16, 2025 / Comments Off on 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…

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 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…

Copilot: History of definitions for the word “domestic” and “United States” in the Internal Revenue Code

By ftsig-admin / September 11, 2025 / Comments Off on Copilot: History of definitions for the word “domestic” and “United States” in the Internal Revenue Code

QUESTION 1: What year was the first definition of “domestic” in the Internal revenue code? Did it mean the same thing it means now? ANSWER 1: Alright — let’s trace this precisely, because the definition of “domestic” in the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) has a long paper trail, and its meaning has been remarkably stable…

Copilot: When did the liability statute disappear from the National Income Tax?

By ftsig-admin / September 11, 2025 / Comments Off on Copilot: When did the liability statute disappear from the National Income Tax?

QUESTION 1: Has there ever been a statute creating liability for income tax at the national level since 1862? ANSWER 1: If by “statute creating liability” you mean a law that expressly imposes a legal duty on a named class of persons to pay a national‑level income tax, the historical record is surprisingly narrow —…

Copilot: Do real “public officers” in Titles 5 and 10 of the U.S. Code always owe tax?

By ftsig-admin / September 9, 2025 / Comments Off on Copilot: Do real “public officers” in Titles 5 and 10 of the U.S. Code always owe tax?

EDITORIAL: This website takes the position that if you work for any government, you should pay taxes to that government on your compensation. This is an unavoidable outgrowth of our stance that the I.R.C. Subtitles A and C income tax is a tax exclusively on the government. What could be better than a tax on…

Copilot: Meaning of civil statutory “services”

By ftsig-admin / September 3, 2025 / Comments Off on Copilot: Meaning of civil statutory “services”

EDITORIAL: This series of questions demonstrates and explains the following facts: Once you volunteer to engage in “services” as a civil “person” officer of the national government within the U.S. Inc. Federal Corporation in a “DOMESTIC” (26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(4) status, you can no longer complain that you are a slave like some people mistakenly try…

Copilot: Defeating the Public Interest Doctrine in Munn v. Illinois

By ftsig-admin / September 2, 2025 / Comments Off on Copilot: Defeating the Public Interest Doctrine in Munn v. Illinois

QUESTION 1: What does it mean to be “affected with a public interest” in Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113: “This brings us to inquire as to the principles upon which this power of regulation rests, in order that we may determine what is within and what without its operative effect. Looking, 126*126 then, to…