There are two big problems with this reasoning. First, the War
Powers Resolution (WPR) is itself unconstitutional.
Because it provides that the executive must report to Congress
and cease military aggressions 90 days after launching them unless
authorization to continue is forthcoming, the WPR has been
successfully and repeatedly construed by presidents and their
warmongering advisors as a tacit delegation by Congress of a carte
blanche authority for the chief executive to initiate and conduct
such aggressions on its own call. The exercise of the authority thus
construed amounts to an executive branch declaration of war, simply
subject to a limiting provision.
However, the power to declare war is delegated to Congress only, and
the Constitution does not authorize any one branch of government to
delegate any of its authorities and areas of responsibility to
another branch. That kind of delegation is only within the authority
of the delegators, which is to say, within the authority of the
people. A Constitutional amendment is required before the
legislative branch's authority and responsibility could be moved or
lent to another branch-- even only in part, or with
conditions. In the absence of such an amendment, the WPR cannot and
does not authorize any executive initiation of military aggression,
and any such aggression is unlawful.
Further, regardless of the validity of the War Powers Resolution, if
Congress specifically votes against military action, it can hardly
be argued that the action is still permissible under the terms of a
congressional resolution made 40 years ago. It will be argued that
to forestall reliance on the ancient resolution Congress must act to
repeal it, but this will be pure sophistry. Even if the WPR were
valid, its terms of circumstance-dependent permission is plainly
trumped by an explicit congressional decision to withhold permission
on a particular occasion.
If Obama conducts a military strike despite failure to get approval
in a congressional vote on that specific question, he will have
violated his oath of office, no ifs, ands or buts about it. Congress
should then (and happily, almost certainly will) impeach him for
this offense.
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?
A Nice Little Victory, With Notes
A FEW DAYS AGO I RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM A FELLOW WHO LAUNCHED his and his wife's
personal march to restrain the state and restore the rule of law with an amended
return correcting the oldest pre-educated filing they could. Their first victory
took quite a while to be completed, as amended filings can, and being a
painstaking, engineering-minded fellow, my correspondent carefully supervised
and logged the whole process.
This supervision included frequent consultation with IRS workers throughout the
process, and this warrior learned a lot. Generous of spirit and conscious that
this community is, and must be, the home of scholarship and outreach against
myths and ignorance on the critically-important subject of federal taxing
authority, this good fellow has shared (in
the national forum-- WELL DONE!) not just the victory he and his wife
achieved, but also what he learned about how educated amending returns are
handled, with an especially important piece of information at the end of his
narrative.
Enjoy and appreciate!
First, thanks to Pete's posting of the Every Which Way But Loose
series, I decided to amend the oldest return I could. Maybe I can go
back further, but I started with my 2009 return. I wanted to point
some things out that might help others:
Along with my 1040X, I submitted a new 1040 form with the data
entered that should have been on the original. This is a
mistake! Of course, this has confused the heck out of them.
Here is some other useful info I've discovered along the way:
You have to wait 12 weeks after submitting an amended return to
get any information about it.
If your amended return has a problem they may send it back to
you without opening the case, in which case you have to submit a
complete one before the normal statute of limitations for
amending a return, which is 3 years from the due date of the
original return (not the send date, but the due date).
If your amended return is received AND the case was opened, then
the statute of limitations no longer applies.
The fastest you can make them go is with this strategy:
Send the amended as early as possible by certified mail.
Wait until you get the receipt showing they received it.
Wait til 12 weeks after the receipt date.
Call the IRS to find out what's going on. They may change
the number from time to time, but I've been using
(800)829-1040.
Take notes while on the call (I use Skype with a headset so
I can type).
If they aren't done, ask to have the examiner call you,
and - this is important - write down what they are going
to do while on the phone so that before you hang up, you
can confirm that they did it.
Be nice, as that helps a lot! And it makes it more fun.
Asking them to call (or mail) you back is called a
"referral" or 4442. It gives them 30 days to get back to
you. They have the option of mailing or calling, but you
can ask them to call (though that doesn't obligate them
to call).
Call back a day or two later to make sure the referral is in
their system. They write notes for every call, so whoever
you reach should be able to look up those notes and verify
that there is a referral in the system.
Call back whenever you want to make sure the referral is
still in the system. I have no evidence that a referral
might be deleted, but who knows?
Eventually, you should be on the phone with the person
checking out your amended return (although this never
happened for me).
Find out if there are any errors that you need to
correct, if they aren't done, or if there is any
information they need from you.
Don't use any statutorily defined words, and if they do,
ask them to rephrase ("since the word wages (or
whatever) is a legal term in Title 26 and so has
separate and often incompatible meanings").
Sometimes they say they will do something, but they don't do it.
For example, they were supposed to input a 4442 (referral) for
me on 3/11, but on 3/29 no 4442 was in the system.
Sometimes they send you something and they have no record of it.
I got a 3552 but they have no record of ever sending me
anything.
Redundant for those who skipped ahead: It's probably a good idea
to have whoever is examining your return call you. This is
called a referral and you can get it by asking for it. They
might call it a 4442. See the last bullet above under "The
fastest ..." bullet for the reasons.
I emailed Pete an image of the check we just received for 2009.
The first time the IRS closed our 2009 amended return case, the
result was that I owed them money. When I asked them to explain
more, they reviewed the data and explained that the taxable income
recorded had been reduced to zero, but "the tax adjustment was not
applied."
The operator agreed that this should be fixed and explained that the
only way to fix it was to open a new case by sending another letter
requesting that they adjust the tax to reflect the adjusted income,
so that's what I did. The return receipt says they received it on
May 28th. A day less than three months later, we got the refund
check.
Educational Tools: A New 'Knowledge Is
Power' Flash-Card Is Posted!
AS ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK, WITH
ANOTHER SCHOOL-YEAR UPON US it behooves us all to attend to
the needs of every family with children for meaningful
educational materials-- especially on subjects not likely to
be well-covered under most institutional curricula.
Thus, I'm pleased to offer a special educational resource for the CtC
community and everyone else: 'Knowledge Is Power'
flash-cards! These are concise, easily-remembered
definitions and facts necessary to any American's
preservation of his or her rights, and critical for the
transmission of our American heritage of liberty to each new
generation.
Every week I'll be adding at least one card to the
collection, in a printable .pdf format. You just download
the file, print double-sided on good-quality card stock, and
trim-out the flash card. Then study, learn discuss and test!
Before long, your kids will be equipped to be masters of
their own lives (and your own knowledge will get a good
polishing, as well)!
This week I'm posting the second card in the collection,
which deals with the important subject of: Excise Taxes.
THIS WEDNESDAY IS
FALSE-FLAG DAY, and I want to take the occasion to share
a few words about the patriotic obligation to keep our heads
in the sand, sand in our eyes, and our eyes respectfully
down which is the essence of what we celebrate on this
special day. This is a particularly auspicious False-Flag
Day for this commentary, as our leaders are about to
launch another glorious false-flag war and we are all about to be
called upon to resume waving the stars and stripes,
supporting the troops, and seeing and speaking no evil
Mmmmmm! I can't wait! I love the smell of bullshit in the
morning!
My message today is all about keeping the right attitude.
The right attitude is an attitude of proper appreciation for
the fact that specialists in high office know more than you
do, and in any event, if we don't all defer to their
authority, why, we'd have anarchy!
You think about it! How would it be if any given Joe or Jane
took it upon themselves to conclude that
the Fourth
Amendment means what it says and DOESN'T allow for
unwarranted searches of anyone's mail, phone calls and
emails?
Worse, much worse, how would it be if every Mike and Mary
read the tax law for themselves and decided that it
actually means what it says, and the income tax DOESN'T
apply to what our glorious leaders' tax collectors tell us
it does?
It'd be ANARCHY!! (Or at least
minarchy, which is just as bad!!)
HOW WOULD THE BENEFICENT STATE keep the engines of industry
running with massive arms purchases if only the national
banks, the defense contractors, the bond holders, the
federal land lessees, the judiciary, the elected officials
and the bureaucrats were paying the income tax? Why, federal
revenue would drop like a rock and Leviathan would be
struggling to stay alive on budgets like those of the 1990s!
How would Uncle Sam justify peering into everyone's finances
and business records, and keeping 'em all asking what's
permitted instead of just making their own economic
decisions with no politically-imposed "direction" for the
good of society? Did you hear me? Just. Making. Their. Own.
Economic. Decisions! ANARCHY!!!
How would we pay for the armies of federal angels who
supervise and control everything else Americans do, and the
attorneys that creatively "interpret" the law in ways that
make that all seem legal? It couldn't be done! People would
run their own lives!! IT'D BE ANARCHY!!!
And it all starts with the kind of radical-peacenik,
non-interventionist iconoclasty that takes root when people
look too hard and with a skeptical eye at what the
authorities say is true.
So.
I'm counting on everyone to hold to the highest standards of
starry-eyed mindlessness this False-Flag Day. I'm calling on
everyone to suppress any dangerous inclinations of "free
thinking", coffee-house-beatnik-libertarianism that rear
their ugly heads, and to shun anybody that casts aspersions
on, or calls into question the sincerity and integrity of
the members of our glorious leadership class and the
decisions they make.
And I'm especially urging you all to listen respectfully and
obediently to this good public servant:
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THOSE IN DENIAL of the truth about the tax
laid out in cold, hard, unambiguous documentation in
CtC continues to fascinate me! These folks are presented
with a simple choice between an obvious, patently ridiculous
fiction and a plain, thoroughly-documented truth which has been
being continuously acknowledged for years now even by the
peddlers of the absurd fiction, but still manage to avoid
choosing to embrace the truth.
On the one hand, these deniers must imagine that their ancestors
were drooling idiots, who inexplicably authorized their
government agents to seize any portion of their own earnings
those agents wished (and those of all future generations), with
the only "control" to which that utterly despotic power was
subject being that those who abused it could be turned out of
office afterwards by what might then be an utterly ruined and
subjugated population. Simply to describe this fantasy in plain
words reveals it to be self-evident nonsense-- indeed, even
after what most of them would admit has been a life-long
conditioning of acceptance of mammoth government, not one of the
deniers themselves would be so daft as to grant such authority
to the state.
The alternative conclusion available to the deniers is that they
have been successfully snookered by a careful, disciplined,
well-financed, generations-long campaign to cultivate and
exploit a general misunderstanding of what those who came before
REALLY did, and the actual, limited nature of the income tax.
These ARE the only two choices. There's no such thing as being
"a little bit pregnant", and when you sweep away all the
cognitive clutter from decades of effort to create and exploit
confusion about the tax by those who benefit thereby, this is
what is left: Either our ancestors authorized an effectively
unlimited tax-- entirely within the discretion of the state at
any given time as to what it falls upon, and how heavily-- or
they did not and the deniers have been snookered.
Even leaving aside simple common sense, ALL of the relevant
evidence-- of which there is
a huge volume from every possible authoritative source--
dismisses the first choice to the trash-can where it belongs and
makes clear that the second is incontrovertibly true.
Nonetheless, those who persist in denial refuse to get it right.
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN I IMAGINED that the problem was the
strength of that lifelong conditioning to which the deniers have
been subject. But the constantly-swelling ranks of
CtC-educated Americans who DO shuck off the nonsense proves
that the conditioning is far from irreversible.
Then I began to suspect that embarrassment played a significant
role in this persistent denial of the demonstrated truth. My
thought was that it was just too mortifying for those in denial
to admit to having been so thoroughly taken in and to have
needlessly handed over up to half of all their earnings over the
years. I imagined that the deniers just couldn't bear to admit
this to themselves or anyone else, and would rather just go on
paying massive tribute to their mental conquerors in a
particularly severe case of "cutting off your nose to spite your
face".
Eventually I had to let that thought go also, however. Nobody is
THAT proud, especially in light of the fact that nearly EVERYONE
was taken in...
SO, I'VE COME TO REALIZE what is actually in play with those who
persist in denial-- a fundamental failure of moral courage. It's
this simple: Acknowledging the truth about the tax inescapably
imposes a moral duty upon a person to stand up and act in
accordance with that truth, and some folks just don't have the
integrity for that kind of adult responsibility.
It is sort of a "see no evil" dynamic. If one manages to "see
none" (or to equip oneself with "plausible denial" of having
seen any), one is spared overt moral responsibility to denounce,
and possibly confront, the evil-doer...
Avoiding that obligation to denounce and confront is something
for which many a moral coward is willing to go on paying even
half the fruits of his or her blood, sweat and tears. I suppose
it's almost easy for these folks when that corrupt choice is
lubricated with the comforting props of the "validating"
fiction, the companionship of others similarly inclined, the
pride factor, and most importantly, the thoroughly-cultivated
reputation of the "overlooked" evil-doers as absolutely rabid
junk-yard dogs, utterly devoid of any respect for the law, and
very unpleasant to confront and denounce.
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.
IN ANOTHER ARTICLE ON THIS PAGE I SPOKE OF AMERICAN HERO EDWARD
SNOWDEN, who is now rightly celebrated for his efforts at
spreading an important truth. I hope YOU are doing YOUR
part at being an American Hero by spreading
this
link
(latest file update, 8-03-13)
far and wide! Anything and everything must be done to get it into a
state of viral distribution across America.
I'm asking you to help me with this by very purposefully sending
this link to every single person you can, with a little
note from yourself urging your correspondents to read the file,
study it, and verify for themselves each assertion made and each
fact cited. Urge your correspondent to let what is learned
thereby percolate and settle in and begin shining its
transformational light on his or her mental landscape, and in
the meantime, to PASS IT ALONG TO OTHERS in the same way!
I also want you to tell me of ANYTHING in this file that you
feel needs more clarity, support (or more support)! I want
you to tell me of anything that you feel is missing, so that it
is somehow not completely sufficient to instill understanding of
the fact that even after 1913, capitations-- taxes on
undistinguished, commonplace revenues and/or the activities that
produce them-- remain subject to the apportionment rule, and
that the income tax is not in conflict with that fact, being NOT
a tax on undistinguished, commonplace revenues and/or the
activities that produce them (however misleadingly worded parts
of the tax law may be, and however routinely misapplied at the
expense of the uneducated, apathetic or intimidated the tax may
have been over the last 70 years).
I want you to tell me, so that if anything IS missing, or needs
greater emphasis or clarity, I can make those tweaks. In the
meantime, I am counting on you to be sending everyone this link.
Seriously, my friend. Even if you never do "action items",
please do this one.
Right now. Without fail. Please.
You may not recognize how doing this will make any difference. I
tell you, it will make ALL the difference.
In this file is the anti-body to all the germs of error,
disinformation and misunderstanding that allow the "ignorance
tax" to persist. It needs to be given a chance to take root in
as many minds as possible-- especially those NOT in the
CtC community.
In many of these minds, perhaps, this truth anti-body will
wither for lack of a hospitable environment. But in just as
many, it will flourish and bloom, and those folks will become
the patient and innovative teachers of others.
Pleas help me with this oh-so-important project.
-Pete
P. S. I know a lot of folks out there have
self-defeating notions planted in their minds about how
clearing up confusion about the "income tax" won't
matter, "'Cause they'll just pay for all the badness
with inflation, man!" or whatever.
No, they won't.
If "they" could do that and survive politically, (and
weren't getting a whole lot more out of the
maladministration of the "income tax" than just a couple
of trillion dollars a year, as well), the tax would've
been dropped with a grimace and without a backward
glance like the universally-hated thing that it is, at
least forty years ago. This "they'll just inflate" thing
could only be said by someone not old enough (or alive
at all) during the 1970s when we had a test of just how
Americans would tolerate real inflation...
(Not that we're going to be spared getting a good dose
of inflation soon anyway, you understand, unless we very
quickly shrink the state down so small that it no longer
has the resources to quash the emergence of free and
valid currencies. This will only happen by Americans
reclaiming individual control of their resources, as is
relied upon by the framers in their design for a
meaningfully-Constitutionally-limited republic-- and
that, of course, is what
the file
at this link is all about.)
The misunderstanding of the income tax is the thoroughly
cultivated thing that it is (and anyone reading through
the file at this link will come to understand
just how diligent is that cultivation) BECAUSE THE
MISAPPLIED TAX IS THE INDISPENSABLE LIFEBLOOD OF THE
UNRESTRAINED STATE. The state knows this well.
Indeed, the reason the truth about the tax is hedged
about with a more enormous army of lies (and
constantly-recruited "stakeholding" defenders) than any
other organ of the state is because it is so vital to
Leviathan's excesses, ambitions and survival. It is the
heart of the monster.
The file at this link is the monster's bane.
Your efforts to spread this shaft of illuminating,
inspiring and disinfecting sunlight will do more for
your future well-being and that of your children than
anything else you could do.
"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)
"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.
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:
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.
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."
Frankly, I could devote an entire page-- maybe a book-- to
misrepresentations of "case-law" by LexisNexis. I have seen
many, and they are important because attorneys on both sides
of a case often resort to LexisNexis for a "cliff-notes"
rendering of precedents on a point of law. (Judges may well
do the same.) This is sheer laziness, and leads to
completely mistaken or outright bogus conclusions such as
those discussed elsewhere on this page.
Anyway, while I may write that book eventually, for the
moment I will just present one misrepresentation made by the
service in its offering of precedents concerning the term
"person" as statutorily defined at 26 U.S.C. § 6671(b).
The statutory definition reads:
(b) Person
defined.-The term "person", as used in this subchapter,
includes an officer or employee of a corporation, or a
member or employee of a partnership, who as such
officer, employee, or member is under a duty to perform
the act in respect of which the violation occurs.
Now, read without craft and corruption, this definition
plainly confines "persons" (as the term is used in the
subchapter) to the class described by the examples given (officer[s]
or employee[s] of a corporation, or a member[s] or
employee[s] of a partnership, who as such officer[s],
employee[s], or member[s] [are] under a duty to perform the
act in respect of which the violation occurs), per the
"includes" rule of construction at 26 U.S.C. § 7701(c):
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!!
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.
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!
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.
