key word: employer.

this does NOT mean what the common person thinks it does.

it refers to an Office/Officer of the federal government.

the definition does not include private americans working and doing business in the private sector because such a compelled, direct tax without apportionment is expressly prohibited by the Constitution.

DC is foreign relative to the several States. Those laws fly for employees/ers of the fed because such PERSONS do not have the same Constitutional protections as We the PEOPLE.

'twas the same with infamous Gold confiscation - then as now, "my people perish for a lack of knowledge."

That was The Book of the.... LAW, you see. So THAT would be the type of knowledge referred to.

Learn #law or die a slave.