Federal Judges And Federal Tax Cases

 

Carl F. Worden

 

 

I’m curious.

 

In every civil and criminal court trial in America, no individual hearing the case at hand, be they a judge or juror, can participate in the deliberations of the case if they have a conflict of interest with regard to the outcome.

 

Federal judges are paid exclusively and entirely by federal tax dollars.  Their salary is paid by federal tax dollars and all their medical and retirement benefits are funded by federal tax dollars.

 

So here is the question of the day:  Why are federal judges allowed to preside over cases where the legality of the federal income tax is the issue, or where just the tax liability of a citizen is at issue?

 

What I really want to know, is why all these flamboyant and famous tax attorneys are not beginning their cases by demanding the federal judge hearing the case,  recuse himself for obvious and blatant conflict of interest?

 

No federal judge can ever be relied upon to be unbiased in any federal tax case involving a citizen’s tax liability, let alone a tax case where the ultimate legality of the entire federal income tax system is an issue. 

 

No federal judge will ever rule that the bulk of American citizens are not liable to pay federal income taxes, no matter how compelling the evidence, for the simple reason that the judge’s entire livelihood depends on the premise that those federal income taxes continue to be paid for his/her personal benefit.

 

We’re talking no-brainer here.

 

Call me crazy, but in my humble opinion, every federal tax case brought before a federal judge should begin with a challenge to the federal judge presiding.  The judge probably won’t budge, but at least it will be on the record in every tax case out there, for the purposes of appeal, that the presiding federal judge is paid exclusively by federal income tax dollars, including medical benefits and retirement, and that because of that fact, no federal judge can be relied upon to be unbiased hearing a federal income tax case.

 

If this hasn’t been an issue to date, it damn well should have been.

 

Carl F. Worden