The US Constitution prohibits any direct tax upon your labor or property. When federal agencies are allowed to operate above the law only then can you be ruled by fear, intimidation and force. YOU ARE NOT FREE!
The Fed uses money stolen through income tax to buy legislators and bring states in line. Thus the Fed, not you nor your state representatives, rules. Your state has been reduced, once again, to a colony of a distant and indifferent government, and YOU ARE NOT FREE!
Finally, third, and perhaps even more importantly, the power to tax is the power to destroy. If the federal government can tax one freedom, it can tax all of our freedoms. If we permit them to tax our most precious and fragile assets, if all we have is kept only by the consent of the government—then we are at its mercy and YOU ARE NOT FREE!