"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

 

Misunderstanding Of The Income Tax Causes The Strangest Problems...

IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE AND CERTAINLY FORGIVABLE that a desire to abolish the income tax and the IRS should arise in anyone ignorant of the true nature of the tax. Unfortunately, these folks are unwitting tools of the very privileged class which they otherwise recognize as their worst enemies.

As written, the income tax actually only applies to the gains of well-fed politicians and bureaucrats, banksters, arms-mongers, Fourth-Amendment-shredding spies and other federal-privilege beneficiaries. That is, the tax as written only applies to the very folks whose oppression, abuse, profligate spending and corrupt mis-application of the income tax itself are the chief complaints of the abolition-boosting activists.

Get rid of the income tax and you do these privilege-beneficiaries the biggest favor anyone could. Get rid of the tax and you simply relieve the privileged from the legal obligation to deposit some of their personal profits from exploitation of public property into the public purse for the benefit of all the rest of us.

THE FACT IS, ALL THE INCOME TAX HAS EVER BEEN is a tax on the profitable gains from exploiting federal privileges. That's why it was implemented in the first place and why the Sixteenth Amendment was embraced by our grandparents as a mechanism to close a loophole opened by the Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust ruling in 1895 through which most of the privilege-exploiters were briefly and improperly insulated from the tax.

However, those actual exclusive targets of the tax have worked diligently to confuse public understanding of the subject from the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment to this day. They have deployed an army of sycophantic and well-rewarded "intellectuals" in this effort (and co-opted the state-loving "Progressive" movement into their tool-box as part of the project).

The success of this enormous, well-funded effort is reflected in the fact that most Americans have come to believe that the tax is some kind of bizarre, hybrid, un-apportioned direct tax actually falling on UN-privileged gains. This belief took hold despite the best efforts of the Supreme Court to prevent precisely this misunderstanding.

Ironically, the confusion-campaign was SO successful that in the 1940s the tax designed and intended to be paid only by the privileged (and which, during the prior 80 years of its application, correspondingly produced relatively little revenue with which to finance swarms of officers issuing forth from Washington to be fastened on the People and eat out their substance) was turned on its head. It began to be paid by the unprivileged majority of Americans to whom it DOESN'T apply, and to produce plenty of revenue to finance a behemoth state with an ever-greater appetite.

Washington ended up with far more wealth in its hands to dole out to the privilege-beneficiaries, and the unprivileged ended up saddled with far more Washington. The confusion-campaign produced a perfect storm of corruption and despotism.

THE TRUE NATURE OF THE TAX has now been made clear. But unfortunately, the confusion engendered by a hundred years of well-financed and well-organized privilege-beneficiary-disinformation on the subject persists.

 Thus, another supreme irony is in play. Folks angered at the impact of the tax on themselves (but not knowing that impact is a result of its MIS-application, and not because of the true nature of the tax) are being induced to call for its abolition. The only REAL effect of that abolition would be the relief of the privileged-class against whom the tax is actually designed from the danger that the mis-application will cease and they would once again begin paying back into the public purse a substantial portion of their privileged gains.

At the same time, successful abolition of the income tax would likely result in a resumption of revenue tariffs. This would jack up prices on consumer goods, an effect far more burdensome on the non-privileged than on the privileged. There is little that could be better for those actually subject to the tax than its abolition, and there is little that could be worse than abolition for the activists seeking it.

That's not all-- to put the icing on this irony, one of the chief arguments on behalf of the 16th Amendment and the revival of the income tax in 1913 after its prior several decades of dormancy was relief of that disparate-impact revenue-tariff-effect then in force! No wonder the roll-out of public (government) schooling was accelerated with all possible energy right after the amendment was adopted and the tax revived-- there was a lot of inconvenient truth needing to be "taught" into incoherence.

YET ANOTHER IRONY IS THAT IT IS THE GROWTH OF THE 'TEA PARTY' that is putting force behind calls for abolition. These folks are sincerely all about the rule of law, but have let themselves be snookered into campaigning on behalf of the law's worst enemies.

Indeed, even as wise and virtuous a statesman as Ron Paul has fallen prey to the privilege-class-nurtured misunderstanding about the tax and has campaigned for abolition. Many other libertarian voices have done the same, all singing their enemies favorite tune while blithely overlooking the true opportunity to accomplish what they REALLY want to accomplish simply by calling for the tax to be applied as intended and as designed.

Last week, I found this in my inbox:

Dear Patriot, I urge you to click here and sign Tea Party Patriots' National Petition to Repeal the 16th Amendment right away! My name is Jenny Beth Martin, and I am the Co-Founder and National Coordinator of Tea Party Patriots. I am proud to announce that Tea Party Patriots has thrown its full support behind Congressman Jim Bridentsine's (R-OK) HJ Res 104, a bill to permanently repeal the 16th Amendment and dismantle the IRS. But we need your help to get it passed! You see, the 16th Amendment grants the federal government the power to directly tax the hard-earned income of each and every American. And that means that this important bill repealing the 16th Amendment could instantly save us from the oppression of our unconstitutional federal tax code! Please, click here to sign your petition right now. Just take a moment to reflect on the horrors of the federal income tax... •  Last year, Americans spent a record 6.4 billion hours complying with the labyrinth of regulations in the federal tax code. •  The budget of the Internal Revenue Service has increased by 58 percent since the year 2000. •  The federal tax code nearly tripled in length between 2001 and 2010. •  And investigations have revealed that high-ranking officials within the Obama Administration have used the IRS as a political weapon, violating the First Amendment rights of peaceful Americans like you and me! But by passing this critical bill, we can end this nightmare once and for all! Please, sign the National Petition to Repeal the 16th Amendment right away. It's going to take each and every one of us to win this uphill battle, my friend. You see, the Washington "ruling class" is addicted to the federal income tax. It's the fuel for their out-of-control spending and reckless big government debacles. They're determined to keep this bill from ever even coming to the floor for a vote. They're absolutely terrified of having to stand before the American people and actually defend the income tax and the IRS! And that's exactly why we MUST pressure Congress to bring this bill to the floor. If we can pressure them to bring it up for a vote, there's no way these politicians will be able to defend this corrupt system. They'll have no choice but to repeal the 16th Amendment! Please, sign this important petition right away. Congressman Bridenstine has taken a very bold step by proposing HJ Res 104. He did so only because he believes the American people will take up the mantle and join the charge against our fundamentally corrupt tax code. He is counting on us - everyday grassroots Americans - to join him in this do-or-die effort. Tea Party Patriots is ready to do just that. Are you? Are you ready to take this critical step toward eliminating the IRS, throwing out our oppressive federal tax code, reining in big government, and reclaiming our liberty? If your answer is "YES!" then I urge you to sign our urgent National Petition to Repeal the 16th Amendment right away. Thank you so much for your support. May God bless America! Sincerely, Jenny Beth Martin Co-Founder and National Coordinator

 

This is a great example of the effort to manipulate good people into doing bad things by exploiting their ignorance. As Orwell observed, if those who control the present can get away with controlling the past (in the sense of controlling what is presently believed to have happened in the past), they can control the future. The myth-spinners have striven mightily to distort the true past into a story of "unapportioned-direct-tax authorization by means of the 16th Amendment", in a bid to achieve a future free of real threat the tax poses uniquely to them. Sadly, Jenny Beth Martin has fallen into the snare.

Wouldn't it be great if all the energy put into mis-directed initiatives like this one went into simply educating more Americans into the liberating truth about the tax? Not only is that the only real solution to the only real problem related to the tax, it is also the only solution to the problem of the tax that doesn't rely on the cooperation of a subdivision of the privileged class (the politicians)-- and therefore the only one that will work.

Anybody out there know Jenny Beth? School her up. I think her heart's in the right place; she just needs to get her head around the facts.

"The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie-- deliberate, contrived and dishonest-- but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."

-John F. Kennedy

 

P. S. WHERE ARE YOUR SCHOLARLY OR INSPIRATIONAL ARTICLES ON THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX, PEOPLE? Do you think I can change the law-defying false paradigm of the "ignorance-tax" beneficiaries all by myself? That's not possible!!

YOU LAWYERS have to publish and post your own CtC-educated scholarly articles in your profession's journals and on its websites.

YOU CPAS have to publish and post your own CtC-educated scholarly articles in your profession's journals and on its websites.

YOU NON-SPECIALIZED AMERICAN GROWN-UPS have to publish and post your educated and inspirational letters and personal stories in your hometown newspapers, in every e-zine out there, and in every chat-room and news-group.

I can't do it alone. But we CAN do it together-- if you'll do your part.

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If You Have Done So, 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?

 

If You Haven't, ARE YOU CRAZY??!!

 

Seriously! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??

 

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

‑Dale Carnegie

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Don't Keep A Bushel Over Your Candle!!

I HAD A CONVERSATION THE OTHER DAY with a warrior still waiting for his first victory, and who is instead being put through an obnoxious stall-and-distract "frivolous" routine (along with his warrior wife). This recently-retired professional man has done everything to comprehensively uphold the law, even going back as far as possible to correct his business filings as well as his personal ones, but so far with no joy.

My correspondent had suing on his mind, and wisely so-- the stall-and-distract "frivolous" assertions are calculated to occupy their target while the two-year window to launch a suit to compel the issuance of a thus-far unmade refund closes, and these folks aren't going to get foiled by that cheap ploy. So, I encouraged my friend to proceed, with all possible dispatch.

At the same time, though, and more vehemently still, I urged this good man to another, parallel activity which I think even more virtuous, since it offers direct benefit to everyone: WRITING UP HIS STORY FOR PUBLICATION!! Thinking about what this wonderful couple has been put through, I was struck hard by how compelling their story is as evidence of the truth about the tax-- just as is the story of every carefully-scrupulous educated filer and claimant whose claims are being evaded with the manifestly inapt, obviously-dodgy "frivolous" bs.

I was also struck by the realization that those who have been victimized by this run-around don't understand the power of their stories! My correspondent said as much to me when I brought up the idea of him writing up his story for his local paper, and/or posting in one place or another on the internet; his initial response was that,

1. He HAD thought about writing it up, but as a book; and

2. He didn't want to write it up until he had gotten a favorable resolution of the matter, thinking that only then would it be a virtuous story to tell.

No, no, NO!

Both of these notions-- that the whole tale could fill a book, and that it is desirable to be able to report a victory at the end of the story-- are understandable. But both overlook the very important facts that a 1500-word article will get read, while a book might not; a 1500-word article will get written, while a book might never be (and in any event, won't get written and out there NOW, while the need is immediate and high); and the story of illegitimate resistance to a CtC-educated claim is just as powerful an educational tool as a victory-- maybe even more powerful.

I ask you all, would the civil-rights movement have gotten the attention it did if the only people who ever told their stories were those NOT subjected to manifest abuse? If Rosa Parks' story had been, "Well, a white guy came on board and demanded that I give up my seat in the front of the bus to him. I refused, and he gave up and went to the back himself," do you think her experience would have inspired anyone to pay attention?

More to the point here, evasions are evidence of truths-- just as much so as are admissions or capitulations. Those of you who are attentive will have noted that while most of the EWWBL episodes I post end up as victories, I also post those that are not-- because an unfounded or transparently-evasive dodge by the government is just as much evidence of what the law actually requires as is a surrender to that requirement. When you can show your opponent doing the equivalent of muttering, "Yeah, THAT's the ticket...!" you are showing that he's lying. When you show that he's lying, you are showing that the truth is not on his side, and IS on your side.

I REALIZE THAT EXPLAINING HOW THE STATE'S AGENTS ARE LYING is not as easy as simply announcing a victory. But it IS just as compelling to those we need to reach, and in some ways, more so.

Despite its ever-increasing ludicrousness, there are still some who cling to the feeble "denial" notion that CtC victories are just a [ten years long, tens of thousands of occasion] "slip through the cracks". These folks convince themselves that CtC-educated victories don't happen because they should, but only happen by accident.

But that "it's all been a big mistake" notion, even as deeply delusional as those who resort to it are willing to be, can find no traction when facing demonstrable outside-the-law behavior by the state in response to CtC-educated claims. No one can argue that gimmicked "frivolous" notices making fake and deliberately incorrect references to statutory language, for example, are "slips through the cracks"!

SO, HERE'S THE THING, PEOPLE: This community really needs to become a very vocal, very widely-published community of revelatory voices-- RIGHT NOW. Every one of you needs to get busy bearing witness to the truth-- trumpeting your victories and denouncing any and all law-defying, truth-revealing evasion of the truth by its enemies.

As I counseled my correspondent the other day, every one of us must write our 1500-word testimonials. Write them for consumption NOT by me or by the CtC-educated, but for reading (or watching-- video stories, even just of you reading or telling your story are great) by those not yet equipped with the liberating truth about the tax.

Get them out there-- in your hometown paper, your newsgroups, your chatrooms and your blogs. Email them around, and copy me, please. The ice is breaking, because lies only hold up until the weight of the truth becomes too much for them, but it has a way of hardening back up if the pressure upon it doesn't grow.

If all you've had are victories, sing them out! If you've had resistance, sing that out, just as loudly.

Use the resources on this site. You don't have to analyze any evasions to which you might have occasion to refer-- just describe them with an eye to pointing out that they are unmistakably knowing and deliberate, and provide the URL at which they can be read about here as the means for explaining how they are manifestly contrary to the law.

Understand that EVERY state reaction to CtC IS A RESOURCE on behalf of communicating and emphasizing the liberating truth.

But only if you put it out there...

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The Biggest Challenge For The Next Three Weeks: NO LYING!!!

...You' wouldn't think this'd be very hard, right?

• DON'T LIE about your own activities or earnings and swear to "knowing and believing to be true, complete and correct" what you either DON'T know to be true and correct, or know perfectly well to NOT be true and correct.

• DON'T LIE about your workers' activities or earnings, and if any of them come to you for corrections of past lies, do the right thing!!

• DON'T LIE about your partners' activities or earnings.

• DON'T LIE about your REAL partner's activities and earnings and sign off on a joint form you don't know to be true and correct.

Typing out these admonitions-- amongst which are those against even the non-CtC-educated assuming and asserting knowledge not really in their possession-- I am reminded of an amusing Tax Court case from a few years ago. In this case, the IRS argued, and a tax court judge agreed, that although prevailing in the case, a litigant forced to go to tax court to overcome egregious errors in a "notice of deficiency" wasn't entitled to costs because... wait for it... the complexity of the code made the IRS's errors "substantially justified"! Here is the Tax Court ruling making this outrageous declaration:

Happily for these litigants, the Ninth Circuit recognized this as abuse of discretion and overruled:

See the complete rulings in this case here and here. But the message for the rest of us is simple, "Don't be like an immoral agency apparatchik. Leave the bs to the bureaucrats and their support team."

As is often the case, "tax day" and Easter are in close conjunction this year. This lets me seamlessly underscore my admonitions here with a reminder that we have been wisely told that while we are to render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's, we are not to facilitate Caesar's making claim to what ISN'T Caesar's, because we also must render unto God that which is God's-- which is our resolve to be truthful and to never bear false witness.

DON'T LIE. DO WHAT'S RIGHT.

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A CtC Warrior's Solution To Illegal NSA Spying

Brian Harriss had this excellent teaching and outreaching idea, and produced what was needful. Get this flyer as a printable, sharable, spreadable .pdf here, and print it, share it, spread it.