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?
Want To Be Free Of The Impending
Obamacare Outrage?
Nothing Could Be Easier!
Like other federal
mandates, the Obamacare mandate hinges on the use of federal privilege
THE
TENS OF THOUSANDS OF MEN AND WOMEN in the
CtC-educated
community are the most typical of Americans in most respects. They are found in nearly every profession and calling. They are doctors,
lawyers, truckers, teachers, engineers, laborers, bus drivers, accountants, you
name it.
These folks make
good livings, raise beautiful children, and love their country. They worship,
recreate, enjoy a good show and know how to put in a good day's work, just like
other typical Americans.
But these
CtC-educated folks are also UN-typical in some important ways.
For instance, every
one of them has an extraordinary sense of civic responsibility and respect
for the rule of law, along with courage, integrity,
resolve and activism comparable only to that of America's founding generation.
Here's another distinction: Not one
CtC-educated
American will be obliged to buy health insurance he or she doesn't want, or pay any penalty
for choosing not to do so.
The reason
CtC-educated
Americans will be spared from the Obamacare outrage is simple. They have read
this book:
These folks have
learned the truth about all federal taxes, and particularly the income tax of
which the Obamacare mandate is a part.
These
educated Americans know that even though it is easily-mistaken as a tax on "all that comes in" (and that such mistakes are
deliberately encouraged and viciously exploited by revenue- and power-hungry
governments which have designed the tax law to be confusing and to conceal its
true nature), the income tax is actually a Constitutionally-harmonious tax of limitedapplication, which has
nothing to do with simply earning money and which mandates nothing at all unless
one chooses to engage in a narrow class of specialized activities.
BECAUSE THEY ARE EQUIPPED WITH THIS UNIQUELY COMPREHENSIVE AND COMPLETE
knowledge of federal tax law,
CtC-educated Americans maintain
control of their resources and regulate the excesses of the state. This is just
as intended by the Founders, who set the federal tax structure up
to encourage exactly that control-- administered by individual, grown-up
Americans unilaterally looking after their own interests and the rule of law in
exactly this way.
It is that knowledge and control that allows American grown-ups like James G.
and Travis and Angie Scott-- whose victories upholding the rule of law against arrogant state
efforts to impose inapplicable mandates on them are added this
week to the
mountain of others by which they have been preceded-- to effectively rebut
all allegations of any federal income tax liability, Social Security and
Medicare taxes included, and reclaim control over the
disposition of their property:
(See the amended filing of a pre-educated return that produced this victory
here)
Every single American can and should be doing the same. Contrary to the
deeply-rooted mythology cluttering the minds of most Americans-- even those
otherwise well-versed in understanding of original intent and of other areas of
the Constitution as drafted and as amended-- there is no coercive federal tax on
individual Americans.
The Founders had no tolerance for such demented, illiberal notions, and allowed
no such tax. Our grandparents' generation
was no more moronic
than the Founders in this regard. They, too, never allowed for such a tax--
absurd, government-promoted mythology to the contrary notwithstanding.
CtC-educated
Americans know all this, having studied in-depth information and authority on
every aspect of the federal tax structure, and having put that knowledge into
practice personally for years now.
MORE,
THESE EDUCATED AMERICANS KNOW that like the income tax overall, the Obamacare
"individual mandate" and penalty only apply to folks who, in any given
year, receive more than the exemption
amount of the specialized kind of gains that qualify as
"income" within the context of the tax. Thus,
CtC-educated
Americans know
that the mandate and penalty simply don't apply to most of them, and how to stop
it from being imposed on them unless they
choose to switch from their untaxed economic activities to the narrow variety
subject to the tax.
Here
is how the Obamacare "individual mandate" and "penalty" law
reads in relevant part (with helpful emphasis added):
Requirement to
maintain minimum
essential coverage
An applicable
individual shall
for each month
beginning after
2013 ensure that
the individual,
and any
dependent of the
individual who
is an applicable
individual, is
covered under
minimum
essential
coverage for
such month.
(b)
Shared
responsibility
payment
(1)
In general
If a
taxpayer who
is an
applicable
individual,
or an
applicable
individual
for whom the
taxpayer is
liable under
paragraph
(3), fails
to meet the
requirement
of
subsection
(a) for 1 or
more months,
then, except
as provided
in
subsection
(e), there
is hereby
imposed on
the taxpayer
a penalty
with respect
to such
failures in
the amount
determined
under
subsection
(c).
(c)...
(d)
Applicable
individual
For purposes of
this section—
(1)
In general
The term
“applicable
individual”
means, with
respect to
any month,
an
individual
other than
an
individual
described in
paragraph
(2)
[Those
enjoying
state-approved religious
exemptions], (3)
[Individuals
not a
citizen or
national of
the United
States or an
alien
lawfully
present in
the United
States], or
(4)
[Incarcerated
individuals].
OK, what we see so far
is that the "applicable
individual" subject to
the "individual
mandate"-- and the
penalty for failing to
comply-- is a
"taxpayer" who is not
covered by a religious
exemption, is not "not a
citizen or national of
the United States or an
alien lawfully present
in the United States" or
is not incarcerated. BUT
WAIT! Let's not forget
that little qualifier we
saw in section (b)(1)
above: Except as provided in subsection (e):
(e) Exemptions
No penalty shall be imposed under subsection (a) with respect to—
...
(2) Taxpayers with income
below filing threshold
Any applicable individual for any month during a calendar year
if the
individual’s household income for the taxable year described in section
1412(b)(1)(B) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is less than
the amount of gross income specified in section
6012 (a)(1) with respect to the taxpayer.
SO, ACTUALLY, THE OBAMACARE MANDATE ONLY APPLIES to someone whose household
"income" for the year is equal-to or greater than the amount of gross income
specified in 26 USC § 6012 as the amount prompting a filing requirement:
26 USC § 6012 - Persons required to make returns of
income
(a) General
rule
Returns with respect to income taxes under subtitle A shall be made by the
following:
(1)
(A) Every
individual having for the taxable year gross income which equals
or exceeds the exemption amount
[this is followed exceptions to this rule]
And THAT means, when all is said and done, that the Obamacare mandate and
penalty do not apply to anyone with less than the exemption amount of "income"--
which is most of us. Like most federal mandates, the Obamacare mandate
only applies to the minority of Americans making use of a federal privilege.
OF COURSE, THE ONLY AMERICANS WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THIS FACT and be able to
unilaterally opt out of the mandate without penalty are those who have learned
the truth about the tax like those good folks in the
CtC-educated
community...
Maybe YOU should become one of those good folks.
Maybe YOU should learn what you'll discover is pretty-much the most important
thing any American can know-- even without regard to the "Obamacare" outrage of
trying to treat everyone as a subordinate of the state able to be ordered to buy
products for the benefit of favored political interests.
Maybe YOU should...
Ah, never mind!
What am I thinking!
Lew Rockwell, the Tea Party Express, Townhall and the Liberty Crier have just
posted more great batches of grouse-articles!
Better you should just read (or write) about how bad things are getting, bitch
and moan like an adolescent schoolgirl, and keep hoping someone else actually
gets up and does something about it all...
So long as the
people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will
do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name
of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping
men.
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 fourth card in the collection,
which deals with the important subject of: Presumptions.
A CORRESPONDENT RECENTLY SENT ME A PORTION OF
THE
INSTRUCTIONS for completing a "Form 1098 Mortgage Interest Statement" that had
caught her eye (with emphasis added):
Who Must File
File this form if you are engaged in a trade or business and, in
the
course of such trade or business, you receive from an
individual
$600 or more of mortgage interest on any one
mortgage during the
calendar year. You are not required to file
this form if the interest is
not received in the course of your
trade or business. For example,
you hold the mortgage on your
former personal residence. The
buyer makes mortgage
payments to you. You are not required to file
Form 1098.
In this unusually and refreshingly straightforward IRS
language, we see a clear admission that gains from an activity-- in this case,
collecting interest on a loan-- are only within the category of "income" if the
activity is distinguished into a specialized, statute-specified
federally-privileged variety. Collecting interest on a loan in the course of
one's "trade or business" (which is defined in the law as "the performance of
the functions of a public office"-- see 26 USC § 7701(a)(26)-- and extends to
the activities of "national banks"-- see
Lewis v. United States, 680 F.2d 1239 (9th CA 1982),
Davis v. Elmira Savings, 161 U.S. 275
(1896), and the discussion of
United States v. LaSalle Nat’l Bank, 437 U.S. 298 (1978) andStanwood v. Green, 1870 U.S.
Dist. Lexis 279
in the "NOTES" section of
this
page) is so distinguished, and $600 or more received for that distinguished
activity must be reported as "income" and is subject to the tax.
On
the other hand, the same receipt for the same thing-- but simply not
distinguished by being received in the course of the performance of a public
office-- is NOT "income". It needn't be reported as such, and is not subject to
the tax.
Here's the code language concerning the interest-reporting obligation:
26 USC § 6050H - Returns relating to mortgage interest
received in trade or business from individuals
(a) Mortgage interest of
$600 or more
Any person—
(1) who is engaged in a trade or business, and
(2) who, in the course of such trade or business, receives from any individual interest aggregating
$600 or more for any calendar year on any mortgage,
shall make the return described in subsection (b) with respect to each
individual from whom such interest was received at such time as the Secretary may by regulations prescribe.
On the interest-payer's side, a payer who has a potential liability (due to
having himself received more than the exemption amount of "income" during the
applicable period)-- which is the only kind of payer by whom a deduction can be
taken-- properly gets his potential liability reduced by the outgoing expense.
He can be presumed to be making his outgoing payments from his "income"-related
gains (after all, no one would pay bills with private funds not subject to the
tax when he can do it with infirm gains on which the tax must be paid). Further,
to not provide for the deductibility of the amount on the payer's side would
risk it being taxed twice-- once from the lender and once from the borrower.
SO, THERE WE HAVE ANOTHER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE ACCURACY OF
CtC,
and of the liberating limitations on the "income tax" built into the law in
harmony with, and respect for, the Constitutional provisions laid down by the
Founders to protect Americans from the possibility of the state going rogue.
Those provisions stand ready today, needing only grown-up Americans to step up--
one by one-- and enforce them.
Aren't you glad you've read
CtC and know 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.
President Barack Obama foolishly backed himself into a corner
during the growing Syrian crisis by issuing fatwas about
mythological red lines. When his bluff got called, the
silver-tongued president was left twisting in the wind.
Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize should be rescinded and given,
instead, to Vladimir Putin.
Add a warning to Obama’s amateur foreign policy advisors: “don’t
play chess with the KGB!”
In
fact, Obama, who rudely snubbed former KGB agent Putin recently,
owes Russia’s leader a “Bolshi Spaseba”(big thanks) for pulling
his bacon out of the fire in Syria. Putin brilliantly
demonstrated to the world the difference between diplomacy and
force, the rapier versus the cudgel.
The American cynic Ambrose Bierce aptly defined a diplomat as “a
patriot ready to lie for his country.”
True enough, but diplomacy is the essential lubricant of
international relations. Ever since the Bush administration,
America’s foreign relations have become militarized and run by
the Pentagon while the State Department has been eclipsed.
America has become addicted to small wars and debt.
The frequent threats and bombast by former Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton – ie to “vaporizing Iran” if it dared attack
Israel – have been seamlessly continued by John Kerry’s
fulminations against Syria. Clinton and Kerry both have 2016
presidential ambitions and are playing to key potential donors.
It
is also painful and disturbing watching Obama and Kerry deliver
impassioned orations about poor little Syrian babies gassed by
the wicked Bashar Assad, a former eye specialist who would
probably prefer to be living in London.
What about all those babies killed in Afghanistan and Iraq? What
about those killer drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen
and Somalia?
Vietnam anyone? Nagasaki?
Enough, please, with the synthetic moral outrage over Syrian
babies or ludicrous claims Syria was threatening the US.
Remember the phony Kuwaiti babies dreamed up by a Washington PR
agency? Egypt’s US-armed and financed Army just shot down over
1,500 civilian protesters.
Americans are rightly fed up with past crusades and increasingly
disillusioned by President Obama and the tame US media. His
indecisiveness and lack of a clear strategy have made him
singularly unpopular. Nor is there any clamor for war against
Syria in Britain and France, whose governments are trying to
divert attention from economic woes by bashing the Syrians.
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
document
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!
It is critically-important that all Americans regain their
once-common understanding 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).
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.
This document 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
this
document is all about.)
The misunderstanding of the income tax is the thoroughly
cultivated thing that it is (and anyone reading through
this
document 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.
This
document 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."
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.
