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"The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."

-James Madison

Aren't You Really, Really Glad YOU'VE Taken Control Of How Much Of YOUR Money Washington Gets To Spend, Just As The Founders Intended?

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AMERICA, YOUR WAKE-UP CALL IS COMING!

ON APRIL 19, 2013, losthorizons.com will present 850 pieces of concrete evidence proving that the average American has been wearing the rube suit at the carnival for decades of fleecing at the hands of corrupt public officials. Come Friday the 19th, navigate to http://losthorizons.com/LightsOn.htm at 12:00 PM EDT (or later) and discover that Uncle Remus was right: "It ain't what ya don't know that hurts ya. What really puts a hurtin' on ya is what ya knows for sure, that just ain't so."

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"At the outset, we reject the Government's breathtakingly expansive claim of congressional power under the Sixteenth Amendment -- upon which it founds the more far-reaching arguments it advances here. The Sixteenth Amendment simply does not authorize the Congress to tax as "incomes" every sort of revenue a taxpayer may receive. As the Supreme Court noted long ago, the "Congress cannot make a thing income which is not so in fact." Burk-Waggoner Oil Ass'n v. Hopkins, 269 U.S. 110, 114 (1925). Indeed, because the "the power to tax involves the power to destroy," McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheat.) 316, 431 (1819), it would not be consistent with our constitutional government, and the sanctity of property in our system, merely to rely upon the legislature to decide what constitutes income.

Fortunately, we need not rely solely upon the wisdom and beneficence of the Congress for, when the Sixteenth Amendment was drafted, the word “incomes” had well understood limits."

MURPHY v. INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DC Cir. No. 05-5139 (2006)

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Regarding Trolleries

(Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")

FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior.

The effort also involves online activity by purportedly disinterested folks who we are supposed to imagine spend huge amounts of time posting "Stay away from this crazy stuff!" out of the goodness of their hearts and a selfless concern for the well-being of others. In other words, this is online activity by obvious government-connected or supervised "agents-provocateur" and the occasional "useful idiot" shill

Some of these folks imagine themselves to be beneficiaries of the status quo, or want to be on some official's cocktail-party A-list. Some are doubtless just shameless hacks attempting to defend a professional career of thoughtlessly buying into the "income tax" scam as commonly misunderstood, and see their best bet at avoiding embarrassment in helping the government bury the truth.

These "non-official" posts (which can be found in newsgroups, blogs, and occupying entire websites) are generally of a consistent character. All either make fallacious "resort to authority" arguments based on a careful selection of misleading, irrelevant or demonstrably flawed material from certain judicial rulings, present outright lies about events such as tax-agency reactions to educated filings, present lies about the content or arguments in CtC, or do all of these. All rely on the targets of their mendacities not investigating matters for themselves, knowing that such investigations are often time-consuming and sometimes outright difficult.

Here's the simple, impossible-to-misunderstand short answer to these efforts: The IRS has admitted under oath that tens of thousands of CtC-educated filings have been made since 2003. Now consider how many allegedly adverse court rulings are claimed in these official and non-official scare-you-away-from-CtC efforts...

Furthermore, pretty-much everything alleged in these official and non-official scare-you-away-from-CtC efforts is grossly misrepresented. Let's examine a few of these falsehoods.

Misrepresentation: CtC-educated Americans have been prosecuted for their filings

CONTINUED...

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What Makes You A Warrior For The Truth?

We each have our reasons, and our story. It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with the world.

Everyone's failure to step up and fulfill this simple request is really getting to me, now...

"The day we see truth and do not speak is the day we begin to die."

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

What does it for you?

Is it simply because no moral and upstanding person has any choice when it comes to telling the truth over his or her signature, whether on tax forms or anywhere else?

Is it recognition of the critical importance of the rule of law, and the knowledge that if everybody leaves its caretaking to someone else, it will soon be lost to us completely?

Is it the money?

Maybe it's just simple respect for your own rights as a human being, who is not and cannot be not involuntarily subordinated to others?

Maybe it's just simple respect for your general civic responsibility to be the grown-up and enforce frugality and restraint on a big, powerful creature of our own devising which otherwise is like a badly-raised teenage boy given whiskey and car keys and let loose on the road to wreak havoc?

Or is it, perhaps, a more acute anxiety that if our bonfire of a state isn't damped, and quickly, it'll soon burn down the house around us all?

What IS it that firms up your jaw and stiffens your resolve?

It's time to take off the bushel and share your light!

I would like you to think about what it is that motivates you for a few moments (or all day, if you like), and then send me your thoughts. I want to put YOUR reasons to work inspiring folks who don't yet understand what this is all about.

In this day and age, the most effective way for you to share your thinking for the benefit of others is to video-record yourself talking about how you feel, and explaining what inspires and motivates YOU.

All you need is a webcam or cell-phone equipped with a camera. If you don't have, or know how to use, one of these, have a friend help.

If needed, write a little script for yourself. Better, though, to just speak extemporaneously, after spending a little time sorting out your thoughts and getting down into your heart.

Keep yourself to no more than 2 or 3 minutes, and keep in mind that the purpose is not to educate, but to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE. Your video will be one of many to be shared.

You needn't feel any obligation to be profound, and you shouldn't try to explain anything about the law, other than to say that you have read it and you know it's on your side. You just need to be sincere, and uplifting. Your object is to make your audience want to have what you have, and to be where you are in your heart.

Keep in mind that you're speaking to an audience that doesn't yet know ANYTHING about the subject, and whose first reaction is, "This must be illegal; this must be dangerous; this is too good to be true." You want to pull that audience right past such things, and straight to a focus on truth, morality, and our American heritage of liberty and the rule of law.

Remember: INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE, ENERGIZE.

Speak about rights. Speak about morality, and the obligation of a grown-up and responsible person to speak the truth and to enforce the Constitution. Speak about everyone's duty to give to God what is God's, always, and to Caesar only what is really Caesar's. Speak of your obligation to respect yourself, and to look out for the current and future well-being of your children and your fellow citizens.

If you have had victories, describe them. Better still, show them, if possible.

Be clear about just what you accomplished: EVERYTHING back-- Social Security, Medicare and all; a "notice of deficiency" closing notice; an on-paper agreement or acknowledgment that your earnings weren't subject to the tax and everything withheld or paid-in was an "overpayment"; a transcript showing all $0s; or whatever happened.

When you speak of state victories, name the state. If you had to overcome balkiness from a tax agency before winning any victory, describe that, too!

Remember, your purpose is to INSPIRE, ENCOURAGE and ENERGIZE.

If you're dealing with ongoing balkiness, describe that, too, if you wish-- but be sure to explain why you're not discouraged, and why you are not standing down, not slinking back into the barn, and not choosing to endorse the lies.

Mention what you do for a living, whether you're a doctor, homemaker, lawyer, trucker, IT guy or gal, or a retiree or student. Help people understand that the company of grown-up activist Americans they are being invited to join cuts across all demographics and all interests-- with the common denominator being respect for the law and love of the principles on which this great country was founded.

This is your chance to get a LOT accomplished.

We've all had frustrating occasions of trying to explain all this to a friend, neighbor, family member or co-worker, only to pile up against the wall of a mind not yet ready to listen and learn. Here is your chance to address a self-selected audience of folks who have themselves decided that it's time for them to begin paying attention, and have clicked on your testimonial for exactly that reason.

So, please make and send those videos right away! The restoration of institutional respect for individual rights and the rule of law depends on enough individuals insisting upon it. Do your part to let those starting to rub the sleep from their eyes know that there is a community already waiting for their fellowship with open arms and open hearts and shining spirits.

See how some of your fellow warriors for the truth have done their parts here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

-Margaret Mead

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The Crime of the Misapplied Income Tax

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Monday's Bombings Were NOT Acts of Terrorism

(unless the state was responsible...)

"TERRORISM" IS A TECHNICAL TERM, meaning an act of violence intended to influence national policies and behavior by threatening a population with retaliatory events of which the "terrorist act" is an example. "Terrorism" is essentially a military tactic used by one side in a war.

We tend to have a confused notion about terrorism because it is a tactic most commonly and visibly used by the weaker side in asymmetrical warfare, a side whose tactics are very frequently alien to our common image of what a war is supposed to look like, with massed, uniformed armies squaring-off against each other. In asymmetrical warfare, one side is often a hastily organized (and still largely disorganized) militia lacking in uniforms, large engines of war, and/or centralized, hierarchical command structures.

Because of the characteristics of those who rely on terrorism (for lack of the ability to go toe-to-toe with a much more powerful adversary) and of the tactic itself, deployed terrorism is sporadic, secretive and very often directed at civilian targets (those being the only targets "soft" enough to be accessible). This makes actual terrorism look very much like random acts of violence-- and makes it easy for the other side in the conflict (or those sympathetic to the other side) to spin actual terrorism as being senseless (and therefore inherently random) acts of violence.

The object of such spin is to delegitimize the cause on behalf of which the tactic is deployed: If the act can be presented as random and senseless, the cause on behalf of which it is committed can and will be ignored.

AMERICA HAS BEEN SUBJECTED to a steady diet of "terrorism" spin. American talking-heads, without challenge by a thoroughly-conditioned public audience, routinely describe all manner of merely criminal acts of violence as "terrorism". But simple acts of random violence don't qualify as "terrorism", and at this point, at least, the bombings on Monday in Boston can't be deemed anything but random, senseless violence. No one has claimed responsibility or otherwise conveyed a policy objective for the acts.

The only automatic effect that random violence could be expected to induce is that of closing our society and compromising our liberty. Thus, the only interest that would stand to gain from violence that IS, in fact, intended to influence policy (and therefore IS "terrorism), and yet which goes unclaimed is that of the state, the operators and beneficiaries of which would stand to gain money and power as a consequence. Thus, the only way these acts are "terrorism" is if the state is responsible.

I'm not saying that the state IS responsible for these acts, mind you. I just hate to see the American public become conditioned into allowing the state and its fellow-travelers to characterize every nutcase act as "terrorism", and thereby further its own ends of sustaining and exploiting a mindless sense of threat from other quarters.

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Not Only Would "Expanded Background Checking" Be Registration By Another Name, But It Would Be A Stealth Usurpation Of Power In Violation Of The Constitution On Other Grounds, Anyway

PLAINLY, RUNNING "BACKGROUND CHECKS" ON ALL FIREARM PURCHASERS results in a record of all related purchases. Just as plainly, by this means all firearms transactions would result in a database of ownership, which, over the course of time, would embrace all firearms in the country.

Thus, notwithstanding the nonsensical pronouncements of Barack Obama and others to the contrary, what was defeated in the Senate on Wednesday under the label of "background check" expansion was really a slow-motion gun registration scheme. However, as bad as that is on its own merits, and as illegitimate as it is under the provisions and purposes of the Second Amendment (see a detailed discussion of those provisions and purposes here), the "loophole closing" this effort purported to effect was no such thing. Instead, it was a stealth assault on the Constitution on yet another front, as well.

CtC Warrior Barry Sullivan offers a great commentary explaining this point, and I'll leave it to him to do so:

Forget the Second Amendment…for a moment.

The attack on the second amendment is a serious problem, but at the same time is being used as a smokescreen for something potentially far more destructive. I encourage you to always look behind the curtain, so to speak, and see what the dealer's left hand is doing.

The Manchin-Toomey proposal, thankfully defeated in the senate today, was supposedly to “expand” the federally required background check for firearms sales through licensed gun dealers to include private sales as well. This is supposedly to “close the gun show loophole”, a phrase designed to suggest that the current law is simply missing a provision which should have been included. Nothing could be further from the truth. The issue here is not really the Second Amendment, but the Tenth Amendment:

"The powers not delegated to the United states by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

The truth is that the federal government has absolutely no authority to involve itself in a private transaction between two private citizens within the borders of their state.

If you go in to a federally licensed gun dealer and choose a gun, the dealer is required to run a background check on you before he sells it to you. The dealer is licensed by the federal government to conduct firearms transactions across state lines, which the federal government claims authority over, rightly or wrongly, under the commerce clause. If he sells you the gun without running the check, you have not committed a violation, the dealer has. (Providing false information on the purchase application is another matter). The dealer is bound by the terms of his license, not you. The reason private sellers, selling only within their state, and only selling to residents of their state, (so-called gun show loophole), are not federally regulated is because the federal government has no legitimate authority or jurisdiction over such private transactions, and never did.

Thus, this “expansion” of the background check is nothing of the sort. It is a whole-cloth government seizure of a power categorically denied it by the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. Precedents of this sort are the building blocks of tyranny, as they pave the way for the government to intrude into every aspect of our economy, and every aspect of your life.

Although the proposal was defeated today, we can count on the stateists in congress to bring it up again.

Regardless of your attitude toward guns and gun ownership, please call your congressional representatives, especially your senator, and politely inform them that a “yes” vote on the background check provision is a violation of their oath of office, because it violates the Tenth Amendment, and will not be forgiven.

A CtC Study-Guide
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." - Thomas Paine

CtC Warrior Ike Hall has been engaged in a very virtuous project-- creating a study guide for new students of CtC. This remains a work in progress at this point, but I think what Ike's done so far is already worth sharing with the rest of the community. Click here to download the guide-- now complete through chapter twelve!

For more clarifying resources click here; and click here for more tools for spreading the truth.

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from

Was Grandpa Really a Moron?

Critical Inquiries for a New American Century

Bob’s Bicycles

or

Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As Falling Off A Bike

To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works, try this little exercise:

Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob, who lives down the street from you in a town that is really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting, deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking, bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in your town.

Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and away the biggest business in town.

Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders who have signed an agreement with him, or even just those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd combination of circumstances that took many years to come together.

Here's how it happened...

Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started out not only with a main location for his contract business-- he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone could take and use one of these bikes, but they were expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate rent), periodically. The initial design of the form was like this:

I, ______________, rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles this year.

At Bob's rental rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______

I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms" to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he would sue the company involved-- said:

Click here to enjoy the rest of this illuminating little parable

(and if you want to see a liberating transformation take place THIS YEAR, forward this file to everyone in your address book)

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You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know What You’re Fighting About.

If you are having an argument with the IRS or any other tax agency,
You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate profit”.
You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign income”.
You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion contract”.
You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject is never identified.
You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply-- even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect, and CAN be corrected.

There IS "A Law" By Which You Can Be Made Liable, And This Is How It Works

Now Learn How To Be Master Of The Situation

See the Proof

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Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri. America is waking up.

Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?
NOTHING.

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."
-Everett Hale
(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."
-Daniel Webster

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
-Edward R. Murrow

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A Brief Introduction To The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax

Seriously. Do you want to win? SPREAD THIS FILE AROUND!
Doing so will accomplish more than anything that happens in a courtroom, more than any argument you make with any bureaucrat, more than ANYTHING else that you can do.
Are You Not Bothering?
Then You're Just Talking The Talk.

You've GOT To Walk The Walk If You Want To Win.

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."
-Thomas Paine

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TOOLS FOR SPREADING THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX

Get this graphic as a printable/postable/mailable .pdf

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!
CtC Warrior SanDiegoScott has put together a great little 20-question quiz to test your knowledge of the law regarding the United States "income" tax. Test yourself, test your friends and family! Test your accountant and tax attorney, and help them learn the liberating truth!!

Click here to take the test

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A "Pragmatic" Perspective On The Tax And The Rule Of Law

Hey, don't bother me with that "morality" argument, and all that stuff about "upholding the rule of law". I'm a pragmatist. I'm just interested in looking out for "numero uno", and living my life without any hassles from the IRS!

So I'm okay with submissively letting the government:
take 45% of my earnings;
habituate itself to the conveniences of "creativity" in the writing of laws and the behavior of its officers in courtrooms in order to take that wealth from me with an appearance of legitimacy;
use my money to mess with foreigners on behalf of special interests, engendering hatred and contempt of all Americans-- including me;
use my money to finance an army of bureaucrats who rule my life for the benefit of themselves and their special-interest clients;
use my money to pay for an army of lawyers who will sue me or prosecute me if I try to make my own choices about who works for me and on what terms; about what I say-- and when, and how; about what I do with my own property; about whether I'm equipped to defend myself and those I love; and about how I raise and educate my children;
-- just as long as I'm left alone, dude!

To suffer abuse without complaint or struggle is to suffer it nonetheless-- but to suffer it without the amelioration of dignity and self-respect.

CtC Videos And Audio Resources

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Doing A Little High-Payoff Math

If each person receiving this newsletter each week distributed as few as 100 of any of the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends, neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!

Just like that! In one week!

C'mon, people, let's roll on this!

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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite

USE THE SITE MAP AT www.losthorizons.com/IncomeTaxSiteMap.htm!!!

USE THE SITE SEARCH PAGE AT www.losthorizons.com/search.htm!!!

When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.

I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend my time...

Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated with, the text you are reading, follow it!

It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered with hyperlinks. Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't understand. Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent to the original text.

It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are confident that they are familiar with language or references within the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over included links. I do it all the time, myself!

However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative material. These other pages contain material the clear understanding of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding of the original page. (Links to CtC, the Victories pages, CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general rule. On the other hand, a link to the victory Highlights or 'Every Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions, are not. The special selection of victories on those pages, and the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith, themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful attention. Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)

Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.

Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted. Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a month or two since your last having done so.