The Lost Horizons News Mid-Edition Update

“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”

-James Madison

The Lost Horizons News

Mid-Edition Update for May 2, 2014

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"That's Inconceivable!"- II

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The ACLU Shares An Illustrative Video About Data-Mining

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A Useful Perspective On The Sixteenth Amendment: Art. 1, Sec. 9, cl. 4A...

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People! Don't Keep A Bushel Over Your Candle!

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What Makes YOU A Warrior For The Truth?

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Project Paradigm-Shift

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Shouting Into The Desert On Behalf Of The Fourth Amendment

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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Illuminating Anniversaries For This Week

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Your Comments

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...and much, much more!

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On Obamacare

On the "Minimum Wage"

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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

"That's Inconceivable!"- II

Though the truth about the income tax may seem "inconceivable" to some, the events documented here would NEVER happen--NOT EVEN ONCE-- if CtC weren't completely correct.

I'M PLEASED TO POST ANOTHER OF THE OCCASIONAL STANDOUTS among victories by CtC-educated Americans reclaiming their money and their independence from purveyors of the "income" tax scheme. These standouts are notable amongst the tens of thousands of other victories for having especially direct and deliberate tax agency involvement in their realization, thereby emphasizing the fact that what CtC has revealed about the tax is 100% accurate and 100% complete.

This week's standout example is typical of these especially notable victories in enforcing the fundamental law. It offers plain and unambiguous documentation that before and while issuing the complete refund claimed by this CtC-educated American of EVERYTHING withheld or paid in to the United States in connection with the income tax-- Social Security and Medicare taps included-- the IRS was fully aware that this man:

had worked in a perfectly conventional job,
had been paid well over the exemption amount for that work,
had had amounts withheld from that pay, and
was demanding the return of everything withheld (Social security and Medicare "contribution included), and agreement that no tax liability arises in regard to those earnings-- based solely on the fact that they were not paid or received in connection with any federal-income-taxable activity precisely as revealed and explained in CtC.

In other words, the IRS consciously, deliberately and explicitly agrees with the validity of this CtC-educated filer's reasoning and the specifics of his claim-- just as it has done in perhaps 200,000 or so other cases over the last ten-and-a-half years.

HERE IS THIS LATEST OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE:

Barry Sullivan filed a "conventional" original federal income tax return concerning 2011. This was done prior to Barry learning the actual and complete truth about the tax by reading 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America', the book uniquely feared by corrupt government officials across the land, and the subject of a bizarre campaign to discourage reading of the book (while not banning it outright for fear of that being a step too far for even our seriously-compromised courts to stomach or that doing so would draw too much curious attention to it) even while filings and claims informed by the book's revelations are routinely and dutifully honored.

When I say Barry filed a "conventional" return, I mean one reflecting belief in the 75-year-old government-encouraged myth that Barry's grandparents had inexplicably authorized the feds to charge all Americans a percentage of everything they earned, even when the feds had contributed nothing toward producing the gains. In other words, a return reflecting a belief that in 1913, Barry's grandparents and everyone else had decided to enslave themselves and their descendants.

In the thrall of this absurd state-serving fairy tale, Barry had reported all the money that had come in to him during 2011 as "income"-- a $28,000 inheritance from what had been saved as a parent's IRA, and $15,550 that he had earned working. He followed the instructions on the form and ended up calculating a $4,364 tax liability on these amounts he had assumed were subject to the tax, and was reporting as such.

Unfortunately, Barry didn't have the money and had only had $182 withheld from his pay as nominal "federal income tax". Crediting him nothing for the federal income tax pre-payments denominated as "Social Security and Medicare taxes", which Barry didn't know to claim in any event, just as he then didn't know to point out that he had no liability for the work-gains in connection with which those amounts were withheld, the IRS calculated an outstanding tax liability for Barry of $4,312.38 as of July 5, 2012:

Barry entered into a payment plan agreement, and started chunking out his hard-earned money to pay this amount. By February of 2014, he had paid the liability down to $2,910.54 (after additional accumulated penalty and interest amounts):

But then Barry threw in a game-changer. He had learned the truth about the tax, amongst which is the fact that the even when the law is on your side it does nothing on its own, and your inaction will be ruthlessly exploited by revenue-hungry tax agencies. Accordingly, Barry stood up, metaphorically, and straightened everything out.

ON MARCH 1, 2014, RATHER THAN SEND IN THE $150 DEMANDED BY THE IRS, Barry instead sent in a 1040X amending his original "ignorance-tax" return. As you saw when you clicked on that link, Barry's amended return was accompanied by a cover letter explaining just what was being done (and that it was being done after consultation with the IRS about how to proceed), and a Form 4852 rebutting the erroneous allegations that his work was federally-connected which inhere in the use of a W-2 to report earnings, and which Barry had previously endorsed by attaching the W-2 to his original return and transcribing its numbers into the "wage" field on that 1040. Barry's Form 4852 also offered a detailed explanation of the reasoning on which his amendment was based.:

Barry calculated a new liability of only $1,851-- this being on only the IRA payout, which Barry treated as taxable on the amended filing. Against this was now the TOTAL amount of $1,060 withheld from Barry from his work-earnings, Social security and Medicare taxes included, plus what Barry had paid in installments.

The result of Barry's amended filing was just what it should be and usually is without quibbling or complaint-- a prompt and complete agreement with all of his conclusions. Barry's tax liability is reduced by $2,513 due to his pay being entirely non-taxable, and his credit against the undisputed liability for the IRA funds he inherited going up $878-- every penny of what was withheld from him as Social security and Medicare taxes on that pay:

BY THE WAY, the same day Barry filed his amended return concerning 2011, he also filed his educated original return for 2013. This one contained not just a 4852 rebutting an erroneous W-2 but also two 1099 rebuttals. See that return package here.

The result of this 2013 filing and claim? Just as with Barry's simultaneously-filed educated amendment, this filing concerning 2013 produced a prompt, complete agreement with Barry's conclusions and the refund of everything withheld (other than $3 due to an apparent typo-- $619.98 was withheld but it was transcribed to the 1040 as $616.98)-- all of which consisted of Social Security and Medicare withholdings:

Nice stand-up work, Barry!

SO, HERE'S THE THING: I know that aloud or subconsciously, the "income tax Keynesians" out there are whispering in mind-numbing shock, "THAT'S INCONCEIVABLE!" Or, to put it more accurately, the Keynesians' little Stepford brains are busily trying to process these facts into something other than what they actually mean, because the prospect that they (the income tax Keynesians) are and have been so wrong about the tax all these years is INCONCEIVABLE!!

I'm going to mercilessly lay it out, though, without regard to the risk of snapped synapses, and in an annoying "shout" because otherwise some folks just won't read, and I don't know what else to do:

NOT ONE VICTORY LIKE BARRY SULLIVAN'S WOULD EVER HAPPEN-- NOT ONE-- IF CtC WERE NOT COMPELTELY CORRECT

I know some folks have hung on troll-posts about the DOJ attacking my own filings a few years ago with "false return" charges (by which is ludicrously meant, "filing returns I did not actually believe to be true"), and on sporadic incidents of resistance to educated filings by the IRS-- news of which is constantly injected into circulation by the agency-- to convince themselves that CtC must be wrong, or at least incomplete.

These conclusions are clung-to, of course, without any effort to actually read the details of these events so as to discover the dodges, evasions, and legal games played in both the civil and criminal assaults on me, and in the occasional efforts to resist educated filings. But even knowledge of what really goes on in these instances of negative reaction isn't needed to understand that efforts to resist or discourage are evidence of nothing.

Even without looking at the damning details of these negative reactions, only a naif would imagine that government officials would never bring charges or attempt to discourage certain behavior unless actual crimes had been committed, or the behavior was actually wrong. Such reactions say nothing about the rightness or wrongness of CtC.

BUT VICTORIES LIKE BARRY SULLIVAN'S SAY EVERYTHING. NO RATIONAL, GROWN-UP MIND CAN DENY THAT NOT ONE VICTORY LIKE BARRY SULLIVAN'S WOULD EVER HAPPEN-- NOT ONE-- IF CtC WERE NOT COMPLETELY CORRECT.

SO STOP THE DAMNED DENIALS!!

I don't care if the Keynesians (or anyone else who has been in denial) want to argue about the difficulties of acting on the truth about the tax, or about what will happen when that truth is widely acknowledged. Go for it, lads, and lasses! Write your columns and your scholarly papers; worry or celebrate as your commitment to liberty moves you.

BUT NO MORE DENYING THAT TRUTH!

Since the first 'Every Which Way But Loose' episode was posted, or even just the tenth, or hundredth, or five-hundreth historically-unprecedented refund complete with Social security and Medicare taxes included, denial has been a shameful self-deception and black lie of omission to the rest of the world. It has also been a great tragedy.

What CtC reveals is the key to collapsing the state back to the dimensions and limitations intended by the Founders and Framers, and to which CtC-revealed knowledge had for the most part successfully confined it for 140 years:

When writing CtC eleven years ago, I was all afire with the knowledge that I had actually belled the cat, gotten the emperor's new clothes-makers on tape admitting their scam, and charted a course by which America could get back to the limited republic it is meant to be. The limited republic by which Americans were safe, prosperous and free, and America was a shining beacon revealing the benefits of real human liberty to all the rest of the world.

I knew that I simply needed to present what I had learned and the terrible and ruinous scourge of the mis-applied income tax would collapse back into its proper shape as an important but relatively modest little excise, recapturing for public benefit some of the private gains realized by the exercise of public privilege. All it would take is the word getting out there to enough people.

That's still all it will take.

Maybe Barry Sullivan's proof-of-the-pudding will finally crack the ice in the minds and throats of the deniers who have kept their voices from this effort. I hope so.

Every day, the beneficiaries of the status quo work like beavers to figure out how to permanently evade the truth. They have now gone so far as to launch deadly, unprecedented attacks on the jury system in their ongoing effort to preserve their self-serving myths so thoroughly punctured by Barry Sullivan and all those other CtC-educated, activist Americans whose ranks Barry joins. (It's amazing how many never-before-in-American-history events have occurred in connection with CtC-- both positive and negative...)

If the deniers DON'T get their thumbs out of their mouths, the chance might vanish, because the state may just descend all the way to the Full Monty in desperate defense of its "good thing". That'd be a heck of a price to pay just because certain folks find denial, even in the face of overwhelming evidence, easier than facing a truth they've convinced themselves is "inconceivable".

THIS DOES NOT COMPUTE!! INCONCEIVABLE!!
NOT POSSIBLE!! INCONCEIVABLE!!		WARNING!! WARNING!! DANGER!!

When an honest but mistaken man learns of his error, he either [forthrightly] ceases to be mistaken, or ceases to be honest.

"It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled."

-Mark Twain

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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??

LEARN the liberating, empowering, critically-important truth about the 16th Amendment and the liberating, empowering, critically-important truth about the "income" tax. STOP merely reading (or writing) about how bad things are and START DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

“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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The ACLU Shares An Illustrative Video About Data-Mining

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See and hear from some others who "did", too, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. Learn how to share YOUR testimonial here.

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A Useful Perspective On The Sixteenth Amendment: Art. 1, Sec. 9, Cl. 4A

TOM BRANFF OFFERED A NICE POINT REGARDING THE SIXTEENTH AMENDMENT in an email last week. He observed that due to its functional relationship with Article 1, section 9, clause 4 of the Constitution (the "No capitation or other direct tax without apportionment" clause), the Sixteenth Amendment can properly be thought of as Article 1, Sec. 9, Cl. 4A. Here's how Tom put it:

Pete,

I've noticed that in explaining the difference between the 16th Amendment and Article I section 9 many people's eyes glaze over.

However, one picture can be worth a thousand words. If we place the 16th Amendment in the Constitution where it belongs it would read:

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No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes (my emphasis), from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

...”

The 16th Amendment didn't change the original apportionment clause at all. By using the word INCOMES the amendment preserved the original text and became, in effect, Article I Section 9 Clause 4A.

This might help in explaining that a difference exists.

Tom

Tom's great illustrative notion helps does indeed strongly communicate a critical point needed to understand the income tax: that "income" is an object outside the class of objects of a capitation or other direct tax. "Income" is not distinguished from within that class of objects, but is-- by Constitutional specification-- defined as an object which is, by its nature, from outside of that class. As the Supreme Court unanimously held when asked to rule on precisely that question shortly after the adoption of the Sixteenth (and repeated many times since) the Sixteenth Amendment did not repeal or modify Article 1 section 9, and did not create some kind of hybrid, by which an object previously needing to be taxed with apportionment was now freed from that restriction.

Tom's device of putting the two Constitutional provisions together on paper makes the point clearly. As is readily seen in his presentation above, Art. 1, sec. 9 clause 4 says that ALL capitations and other direct taxes must be apportioned. This specification creates a class of "apportionment-required" objects of taxation, consisting of all those things a tax on which would be, or amount to, a capitation or other direct tax.*

At the same time, by specifying that a tax on "incomes" is outside the "apportionment-required tax class", the Sixteenth Amendment says that "income" is not, cannot be, and cannot be morphed-- by construction or Congressional specification or any other way-- into anything which is naturally the object of a capitation or other direct tax. Juxtaposing the two provisions one after the other puts the context within which the Sixteenth Amendment was designed to operate, and which controls its meaning and effect, directly in view while considering the amendment itself, in a most useful fashion.

Nice insight, Tom!

*IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND that whether a tax on an object is "direct" or "indirect" is not a matter of what Congress chooses to call it. As the Supreme Court has observed,

“The name by which the tax is described in the statute is, of course, immaterial. Its character must be determined by its incidents...”

Dawson v. Kentucky Distillers & Warehouse Co., 255 U.S. 288 (1921)

It is the nature of the thing taxed (which "nature of the thing" includes the nominal object, the method by which the tax is applied, and its actual practical effect) that determines into which class a tax falls. If the tax is on an exercise of a right, for instance-- either expressly or by practical effect-- it is direct, regardless of what Congress, the executive or any court chooses to call it (or not call it). If it is on any of the objects of a capitation, it IS a capitation, regardless of what Congress, the executive or any court chooses to call it (or not call it). In both cases, such a tax must be apportioned.

By the same token, if any tax is to be spared the apportionment limitation, it can only be because it does not fall on any objects of a capitation or other direct tax, regardless of what Congress, the executive or any court chooses to call it (or not call it).

This is what the Supreme Court means when it says,

"[T]axation on income [is] in its nature an excise..."

Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916)

The court is saying that by the nature of the thing taxed (that is, what is meant by "income" in the income tax laws: the gainful exercise of federal privilege), that tax is, in fact, an excise (indirect) tax. Were the tax to be designed, manipulated or construed to reach anything BUT a proper subject of an indirect tax such as the gainful exercise of federal privilege, it would have to be subjected to the rule of apportionment even though its label had never been changed:

"[I]n [such a] case the duty would arise to disregard form and consider substance alone and hence subject the tax to the regulation as to apportionment which otherwise as an excise would not apply to it."

Ibid.

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Now, More Than Ever, It's Time To Learn The Truth About The Tax!

AS THE STATE GOES EVER-MORE ROGUE, it is ever more important that American men and women step up and cut back the beast's rations, as the Founders meant for them to do, and relied upon them to do. That discipline is the only peaceful, functional remedy for a circumstance like ours today, in which the political process has been captured by enemies of the Constitution and the judiciary is either entirely corrupt and co-opted or is intimidated into silence for lack of sufficiently-evident resolve among the people.

Accordingly, this week I updated my 2006 introductory film, 'It's Time To Learn The Truth', and added 15 minutes of inspirational words from some serious CtC Warriors. Find it below and on YouTube's site here.

PLEASE! Watch it through, and then spread it to everyone, like your liberty depends on it. It does.

"All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed."

-I. F. Stone

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Some Folks Have Already Surrendered To The State's War Of Terror...

I'm proud to be a member of our ever-growing CtC community of grown-up Americans who have not.

To learn how the Founders anticipated this kind of internal assault on our liberties-- and provided against it-- read 'The Shield'

(and share it around widely)!

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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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...

One Candle Is Uncovered...

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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. Perhaps make it a video of someone in your family, or a close friend, interviewing you.

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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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.

The Crime of the Misapplied Income Tax

Project Paradigm-Shift

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 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).

I am counting on you to help make this happen by 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.

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 page is all about.)

The misunderstanding of the income tax is the thoroughly cultivated thing that it is (and anyone reading through this page 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 has ever deserved liberty...)

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Shouting Into The Desert...

THAT'S HOW IT FEELS SOMETIMES, saying the same thing over and over, and here I go again. But what else can I do?

This past Tuesday, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in a case over the ridiculous "question" of whether police can lawfully conduct a warrantless search of an arrestee's cell-phone. Various arguments were advanced by the executive-branch attorneys wanting the court to sign-off on this latest assault on the principles behind the Fourth Amendment, none of which need be discussed here, and none of which should have been given a single minute of air time by the justices. (Still, special mention must go to the argument on the basis of "officer safety"-- as though if left unsearched right then, the smart-phone might consequently transform into a killer robot, or within it might be found a warning about a booby-trap about to go off where the officer is standing.)

These arguments in favor of the searches are moot because the court doesn't have the latitude to authorize them anyway. Searching a phone's contents is manifestly not a search incidental to arrest any more than would be reading a diary found in a detainee's pocket or looking in a car's glovebox after the detainee has been removed from the vehicle (and therefore no longer has any chance to grab a weapon that might be hidden within it). ANY OTHER SEARCH IS CONSTITUTIONALLY "UNREASONABLE" WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT.

The original (and therefore only) lawgivers' intent behind the Fourth Amendment is to ensure that ALL searches and seizures be based on sworn evidence of probable cause tested before an impartial (that is, non-government-favoring) tenure-insulated judicial-branch officer who is conscious of his role as a check on the executive seeking permission for the search. Despite recent decades of Supreme Court misconstruction of this point by virtue of poor advocacy in Fourth Amendment cases and a long-ago mistake concerning a purported precedent starting the court down an errant path on this point, the actual constitutional meaning of "unreasonable" (and therefore prohibited) in the amendment is "without a warrant".

As excerpted from this longer discussion of the subject:

The meaning of the Fourth Amendment happens to be very well-documented. The amendment reads,

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Although this language could be slightly improved by the addition of a period after "violated" and the removal of the "and" that follows, making the remainder a new sentence, it is clear that deliberate, purposeful government scrutiny of anyone or any of their stuff at any time and anywhere without already having a warrant based on a sworn, credible and specific allegation that evidence of a crime will be found is a Fourth Amendment violation. There are no exceptions.

In their writings the Founders made perfectly clear that "unreasonable" in the amendment doesn't mean "out of the ordinary", "excessive" or "in violation of reasonable expectations of privacy" as federal courts have variously "found". Rather, "unreasonable" means nothing more and nothing less than "conducted without a proper warrant."

For instance, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, one of the earlier versions of the Fourth upon which the federal Constitutional amendment was modeled, reads in pertinent part:

That general warrants, whereby any officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places without evidence of a fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not named, or whose offence is not particularly described and supported by evidence, are grievous and oppressive, and ought not to be granted.

Similarly, the Declaration of Rights in the Pennsylvania Constitution of 1776, another precursor to the Fourth, says:

That the people have a right to hold themselves, their houses, papers, and possessions free from search and seizure, and therefore warrants without oaths or affirmations first made, affording a sufficient foundation for them, and whereby any officer or messenger may be commanded or required to search suspected places, or to seize any person or persons, his or their property, not particularly described, are contrary to that right, and ought not to be granted.

James Madison, in arguing for the inclusion of the Bill of Rights before Congress, described his intent for the Fourth thusly:

The rights of the people to be secured in their persons; their houses, their papers, and their other property, from all unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated by warrants issued without probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, or not particularly describing the places to be searched, or the persons or things to be seized.

Massachusetts, in its Constitution of 1780, put it this way:

Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions. All warrants, therefore, are contrary to this right, if the cause or foundation of them be not previously supported by oath or affirmation; and if the order in the warrant to a civil officer, to make search in suspected places, or to arrest one or more suspected persons, or to seize their property, be not accompanied with a special designation of the persons or objects of search, arrest, or seizure: and no warrant ought to be issued but in cases, and with the formalities, prescribed by the laws.

Plainly, the Framers adopted the Fourth Amendment in the expectation and with the intent that no search would ever be conducted other than with a warrant. Thus, all searches which ARE conducted-- anywhere, at any time and under any circumstances other than "in hot blood" involving an arrest for conduct just committed-- must conform to the amendment's careful prescriptions of prior establishment of probable cause by testimony under penalty of perjury, and particularity and explicitness as to the evidence to be sought and seized.

What was unconstitutional yesterday is unconstitutional today, absent an intervening amendment. Deliberate government investigative or surveillant attention to anyone, or anyone's places or property, without a warrant based on a sworn, credible and specific allegation that evidence of a crime will be found is a Fourth Amendment violation. There are no exceptions.

This should all be perfectly clear, and there ARE no relevant authorities to support any other understanding of the amendment.

SO, HERE'S THE "SHOUTING INTO THE DESERT" THING: I've yet to see this point, and these authorities, appear in any recent punditry on the Fourth, much less in arguments in court. I hope you will all please help to rectify that, by bringing these things up whenever you can in any forum in which the Fourth Amendment and our rights to privacy and security of our persons and papers and effects are being discussed.

I can't make much happen with just my lone voice. But together we can make it all happen.

"It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men."

-Samuel Adams

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Was Grandpa Really a Moron?

Critical Inquiries for a New American Century

Bob’s Bicycles

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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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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!!

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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.

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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 while since your last having done so.

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