Lawyer's attempt to stop the IRS from Taxing Blacks Fails
/A black lawyer's legal attempt to stop the Internal
Revenue Service from taxing blacks because he says they have been
denied basic rights afforded to other citizens has failed. A federal
judge ruled Thursday that William Wright's lawsuit challenging the
federal tax code has no merit. Wright, a 64-year-old lawyer in
Columbus, sued the IRS and federal government in May, seeking a refund
of $25,000 in taxes he paid over a 32-year period starting in 1963 and
a halt to tax collections from other black citizens in the United
States. The 64-year-old argued that the tax code applies to "citizens
and aliens," but can't be applied to blacks because they are neither
citizen nor alien "by reason of the denial of basic rights of
citizenship." He said blacks have been denied civil freedom, access to
capital, employment and marketplace competition. In his order
dismissing the lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Clay Land wrote that the
Constitution gives Congress the power to tax citizens and non-citizens.
As a citizen, Wright is subject to the nation's income tax law, the
judge said. [more 
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