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The Lost Horizons News

Mid-Edition Update for December 14, 2014

 

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Featured In This Update:

It's Quiz Time Again!

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David LaRocque's Press Release

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Keeping Things In Focus

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Make Someone You Love Sweat Bullets This Year

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What Makes YOU A Warrior For The Truth?

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Project Paradigm-Shift

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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

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Illuminating Anniversaries For This Week

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Your Comments

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...and much, much more!

 

 

Hot Topics In The News:

 

The Fourteenth Edition of CtC is Now Available!

On Obamacare

On the "Minimum Wage"

And Hey! Don't miss the great stuff in the main page of this edition!

 

 

"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

 

It's Pop Quiz Time Again!

Take this NEW little test to see just how tuned-up you are with the realities of the federal tax structure as laid out by the framers and amenders of the United States Constitution, interpreted by the Supreme Court, and implemented in current law.

 

CtC Quiz IV: What Led To The Sixteenth Amendment?

 

1. The tax on federal income first went dormant at the end of:
1776.

1941.
1933.
1872.
 

2. The income tax was first revived in:
1894.

1787.
1812.
2001.

 

3. The chief reason for the revival of the tax was:
To buy Grover Cleveland a presidential yacht.
Because American's felt guilty about having too much money.
Congressional indolence had become a national scandal.
To recover for the public treasury a portion of the enormous profits in rent and dividends being enjoyed by beneficiaries of corruption-ridden publicly-subsidized projects like the trans-continental railroads.

 

4. The revived tax was quickly challenged in court on the argument that:
Income taxes were unconstitutional.
Insofar as the tax was applied to otherwise excisable rent and dividends, it took on the legal character of a property tax by virtue of the relationship between real estate and rent and stock and dividends, and thus these two federally-connected types of gains could only be taxed by the rule of apportionment.
Rates were too low.
The tax lacked progressivity.

 

5. The Supreme Court ruled that:
Income taxes are just unconstitutional unless apportioned, period.
Presidential yachts are decadent luxuries.
While apportionment is irrelevant to all other objects of the tax because they are unambiguously proper objects of an excise tax, when applied to rent and dividends the tax amounts to a property tax requiring apportionment, and therefore the revival act, which included these things in its list of objects to be taxed without apportionment, was unconstitutional.
What does it matter? This is ancient history.

 

6. Congress responded to this ruling by:
Re-enacting the tax revival without the rent and dividend applications, since half a loaf is better than none.
Buying Cleveland a yacht using personal funds.
Shutting down the government.
Enacting a series of alternative measures aimed at those rents and dividends in hopes of getting around the Supreme Court ruling-- most notably the Corporate Excise Tax Act of 1909-- while paying no attention whatever to other objects of the income tax.

 

7. The Sixteenth Amendment was designed to:
Launch the United States income tax.
Create a hybrid tax, which falls on undistinguished activities or the revenue they produce-- as in a capitation-- but is spared the rule of apportionment, as in an excise.
Keep the government from shutting down.
Overrule the Supreme Court's decision protecting the profits of crony-capitalists realized in the form of rents and dividends from the tax, and do nothing else, since nothing else needed to be done-- all other objects of the income tax had always been taxable without apportionment.

 

8. Upon the declared adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, the income tax was revived for the second time in:
1909.
1913.
September.
Saskatchewan.

 

9. When subsidized-railroad investor Frank Brushaber challenged the re-revived income tax in 1916 on various grounds based on taking the Sixteenth Amendment as having authorized an unapportioned capitation, a unanimous Supreme Court:
Ruled that Brushaber was correct; Article 1, section 9 of the U.S. Constitution was toast and all restraints on the taxing power of the federal government were undone; rubbed its hands together maniacally and went, "Bwuahahahahahaha!"
Went into recess and joined President Wilson for some kick-back time on the presidential yacht.
Danced around the issue in a Texas Two-Step, issuing a weasel-worded the-"Obamacare"-mandate-is-a-tax-not-a-mandate ruling.
Simply and squarely ruled that the only thing the amendment is for, and the only effect it has, is to overrule the earlier Supreme Court reasoning that because of the personal property sources through which they arise, otherwise excisable activities whose gains are realized as rent or dividends require apportionment to be Constitutionally taxed.

 

10. After the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, and especially during and immediately after World War I during which the U.S. government went hugely in debt, the United States began collecting income tax from:
93% of the working population, just like during World War II a generation later.
From a relatively modest fraction of the population, but this was only because for some inexplicable reason exemption rates were set so high as to exclude the majority from any liability.
The same percentage of households on average as had been the average during the 1860s and early 1870s-- a bit less than 10%, even though the dollar amounts of the available exemptions were well below most household earnings.
The yacht-building industry.

 

11. The statutory structure of the re-revived income tax as enacted after the Sixteenth Amendment-- including what is taxed and how:
a. Is completely different from any earlier versions reflecting the fact that the tax is a new breed, falling on things previously untaxable without apportionment.
b. Generated much fear and trembling in the yacht-making industry and among its customers, who began a sustained campaign to subvert general understanding of the tax as having been transformed by the amendment into a tax reaching non-federal-beneficiaries, both in hope of marshaling broad political opposition to the tax and to eventually divert some of the burden of public finance which would otherwise fall predominantly on them alone onto ignorant others.

c. Is virtually word-for-word identical to the 1862 and 1894 statutory structure of the tax, including the specifications of what is taxed and how-- in fact, a great deal of the structure still in use to day IS the structure enacted during the 1860s.
d. Both b and c.

 

12. In the early 1940s the portion of American households affected by the income tax-- which had previously averaged less than 10% over all years in which the tax was in force from 1862 on, including the 30 years since the Sixteenth Amendment-- leapt to more than 90% (and has stayed in that area ever since). During the couple of years in which this dramatic change occurred:
Exemption rates were correspondingly lowered (or earnings levels correspondingly rose above existing rates).
Another Constitutional amendment was adopted broadening the application of the tax to areas it had not been able to reach before.
A change was made in the statutory application of the tax so as to apply it more broadly than before.
None of the above. All that happened during that transforming period was that the taxing entities, having concluded that understanding of the tax and the effect of the Sixteenth Amendment had been successfully comprised over the previous thirty years, suddenly sent tax forms to more-or-less everyone, on which recipients were instructed to declare "wages" and so forth, and calculate tax liabilities accordingly, with the definitions of these terms omitted. A masterful play by a venal community of folks who have ever since been living large by "the political means", just dreading the time when enough Americans learn the truth and resume control of their wealth and power.


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0 - 24% correct: I'm afraid you've gotten your "education" exclusively from the IRS.

25 - 49% correct: Your heart's in the right place, but you haven't yet started down the path to knowledge.

50 - 74% correct: You're well on the path, but still have some studying to do.

75 - 99% correct: You're on the very verge of self-empowerment...

100% correct: Hello, CtC Warrior!

 

The Answer Key and Notes:

 

Question 1. The tax on federal income first went dormant at the end of:

1872.

Question 2. The income tax was first revived in:

1894.

Question 3. The chief reason for the revival of the tax was:

To recover for the public treasury a portion of the enormous profits in rent and dividends being enjoyed by beneficiaries of corruption-ridden publicly-subsidized projects like the trans-continental railroads.

 

NOTE: During the Lincoln administration and subsequent Republican administrations, corruption in administration of publicly-funded projects like the railroads became epidemic. By the time of the second Cleveland administration the public was sick of the scandal and the exploitation of the public purse, and chose to revive the dormant income tax-- which is designed to capture a portion of private profits gained by exploitation of public privilege (and also to suction excess fiat currency out of circulation so as to conceal the true extent of the "inflation tax" being imposed by the state).  See more on this here.

Question 4. The revived tax was quickly challenged in court on the argument that:

Insofar as the tax was applied to otherwise excisable rent and dividends, it took on the legal character of a property tax by virtue of the relationship between real estate and rent and stock and dividends, and thus these two federally-connected types of gains could only be taxed by the rule of apportionment.

Question 5. The Supreme Court ruled that:

While apportionment is irrelevant to all other objects of the tax because they are unambiguously proper objects of an excise tax, when applied to rent and dividends the tax amounts to a property tax requiring apportionment, and therefore the revival act, which included these things in its list of objects to be taxed without apportionment, was unconstitutional.

Question 6. Congress responded to this ruling by:

Enacting a series of alternative measures aimed at those rents and dividends in hopes of getting around the Supreme Court ruling-- most notably the Corporate Excise Tax Act of 1909-- while paying no attention whatever to other objects of the income tax.

Question 7. The Sixteenth Amendment was designed to:

Overrule the Supreme Court's decision protecting the profits of crony-capitalists realized in the form of rents and dividends from the tax, and do nothing else, since nothing else needed to be done-- all other objects of the income tax had always been taxable without apportionment.

 

NOTE: It is by virtue of the fact that all other objects of the income tax have always been taxable without apportionment that we can see revealed what those things are (and can only be). Since capitations and other direct taxes require apportionment, these "income tax-able" things must be other than the proper subjects of those apportionment-required taxes, which include (among other things) activities engaged-in by right, and the revenues they produce. "Income tax-able" objects then, can only be activities engaged-in by privilege, and the revenues they produce-- which not coincidentally are the proper objects of an excise such as the "income tax" is uniformly acknowledged to be.

Question 8. Upon the declared adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, the income tax was revived for the second time in:

1913.

Question 9. When subsidized-railroad investor Frank Brushaber challenged the re-revived income tax in 1916 on various grounds based on taking the Sixteenth Amendment as having authorized an unapportioned capitation, a unanimous Supreme Court:

Simply and squarely ruled that the only thing the amendment is for, and the only effect it has, is to overrule the earlier Supreme Court reasoning that because of the personal property sources through which they arise, otherwise excisable activities whose gains are realized as rent or dividends require apportionment to be Constitutionally taxed.

Question 10. After the adoption of the Sixteenth Amendment, and especially during and immediately after World War I during which the U.S. government went hugely in debt, the United States began collecting income tax from:

The same percentage of households on average as had been the average during the 1860s and early 1870s-- a bit less than 10%, even though the dollar amounts of the available exemptions were well below most household earnings.

Question 11. The statutory structure of the re-revived income tax as enacted after the Sixteenth Amendment-- including what is taxed and how:

Is virtually word-for-word identical to the 1862 and 1894 statutory structure of the tax, including the specifications of what is taxed and how-- in fact, a great deal of the structure still in use to day IS the structure enacted during the 1860s. That structure also generated much fear and trembling in the yacht-making industry and among its customers, who began a sustained campaign to subvert general understanding of the tax as having been transformed by the amendment into a tax reaching non-federal-beneficiaries, both in hope of marshaling broad political opposition to the tax and to eventually divert some of the burden of public finance which would otherwise fall predominantly on them alone onto ignorant others.

Question 12. In the early 1940s the portion of American households affected by the income tax-- which had previously averaged less than 10% over all years in which the tax was in force from 1862 on, including the 30 years since the Sixteenth Amendment-- leapt to more than 90% (and has stayed in that area ever since). During the couple of years in which this dramatic change occurred:

Exemption rates didn't dramatically change, there was no Constitutional amendment expanding the tax, and there was no statutory expansion of what was subject to the tax. All that happened during that transforming period was that the taxing entities, having concluded that understanding of the tax and the effect of the Sixteenth Amendment had been successfully comprised over the previous thirty years, suddenly sent tax forms to more-or-less everyone, on which recipients were instructed to declare "wages" and so forth, and calculate tax liabilities accordingly, with the definitions of these terms omitted.

 

It was a masterful play by a venal community of folks who have ever since been living large by "the political means", while dreading the time when enough Americans learn the truth and resume control of their wealth and power.

Quiz I

Quiz II

Quiz III

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Warrior David LaRocque's Press Release:

Friends,

Doreen Hendrickson, wife of the author of the book that exposes the income tax fraud that is being perpetrated on the American people, is being subjected to malicious prosecution by government thugs. The charge is “contempt of court” for her refusal to sign a statement drafted by the government attesting to facts which she knows to be untrue – specifically that she has a tax liability to the federal government under the government’s fraudulent interpretation of the law regarding the income tax, when in fact she knows that the statement she has been ordered to sign is false.

Pete Hendrickson’s book “Cracking the Code” shows, through penetrating analysis and in great detail, how the U.S. Constitution provides, in Article I of that document, for only two classes of taxes on the American people – direct taxes which are subject to apportionment, and indirect taxes (“duties, imposts, and excises”) which are subject to the requirement of uniformity.

Notwithstanding government assertions to the contrary, the United States Supreme Court ruled (in the Brushaber case) that the Sixteenth Amendment created no new power of taxation which did not exist prior to the amendment, and that the income tax authorized by that amendment is an excise tax applicable only to government-connected activities. Accordingly, while the government has no authority to impose income taxes (direct taxes or “capitations”) on private sector activity, the Internal Revenue Code has been carefully manipulated to create the appearance of tax liability when no such liability exists.

When one reads Pete’s book and learns how this is done, the effect is tantamount to be being struck by lightning. For anyone who was educated to believe in the essential legitimacy of the American government and its operation, this revelation is beyond shocking. The only conclusion one can reach is that the level of corruption has become so great in our system of government that heroic measures will be needed to save it from the rot and corruption which has been allowed to penetrate it, and take root in its foundation.

Pete Hendrickson has taken it upon himself, at great personal sacrifice, to sound the alarm about the governmental fraud that is destroying the greatest economic system the world has ever seen. This is Pete’s battle, not Doreen’s. But the government was unsuccessful in its assault on Pete, so it attacked his wife, who has nothing to do with the battle to bring out the truth to the American people.

While this fact in itself is highly disturbing, the government’s line of attack on Doreen is nothing short of outrageous. The government is trying to use the enormous power of the federal government to force Doreen to accept a version of official truth which she knows to be a lie. This behavior by the government is the behavior of a tyrannical regime – nothing more, nothing less - and is absolutely incompatible with the rule of law. This assault on Doreen Hendrickson is of a type familiar to anyone who has studied the history of Communist and Fascist regimes in recent world history. This is not something one would have thought possible in America. Yet this is exactly what is happening in our country today.

The Doreen Hendrickson case, as little known as it is, could be seen as one of the most important cases taking place in America today. If Doreen Hendrickson is sentenced to prison for refusing to sign a statement, under court order, which is demonstrably false and contrary to Doreen’s deeply held belief, then the constitutional protections afforded us by the Founders to preserve and protect our liberty may no longer exist.

If you do not understand what is happening to Doreen and Peter Hendrickson, I urge you to investigate further at www.losthorizons.com.

Contact Pete Hendrickson at newscritter@losthorizons.com

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Keeping Things In Focus

 

A Lot Of Pixels Spilled Overlooking The Solution To Abusive And Destructive Sexual Relations Policies On American Campuses

EARLIER THIS WEEK I READ AN ARTICLE by William Anderson offering well-taken commentary on the latest campus sexual assault hoax. Anderson's article concerned the purported frat rape of "Jackie" at the University of Virginia in 2012, which was first reported in Rolling Stone last month and then seized upon both as gospel and as a validation of the feminazi assault against reason and the rule of law on campuses across America.

Anderson does a great job describing the problem of wildly-improper burdens and standards of proof which have become the norm at our colleges where this one politically-live subject is involved. He even drills right down to a very key (if not "the") environmental factor supporting this particular termite-swarm attack on American rule of law:

Furthermore, the Obama administration has ordered colleges and universities to use a standard of “preponderance of the evidence” to determine if sexual assault or rape has occurred. People who are accused (almost always male students) are not permitted to have attorneys representing them and usually are not given specifics of the accusations until a hearing is held. Any institution that does not use these “standards” can be denied federal money, which would pretty much put most of them out of business.

So...

C'mon, Bill! Think it!

Say it!! "Plainly, Americans should stop supplying the feds with the money they use to seduce and then coerce these schools into this socially-destructive, rule-of-law-eroding behavior!!"

 Was that so hard?

Every day I read something of the same sort, rightly complaining about some federal government outrage (and not just "outrage" as in "an offense to the sensibilities" but "outrage" as in a dangerous, wound-inflicting and ultimately not survivable attack on our rights and our law). As usual, these complaints leave off the most important part: WHAT MUST BE DONE ABOUT IT! These outrages are presented as if just pointing at them is going to cause some sort of spontaneous uprising. And how's that working for everyone?

Just pointing at outrages doesn't cause uprisings, or anything at all that is meaningful in the short window of opportunity we have left ourselves by our previous complacency. It is nothing but one frog in the pot remarking to his neighbor, "It sure is getting hot in here..." It is crazy, and irresponsible.

Worse, it is actually taken by one frog or the other (or both) as some kind of meaningful reaction to the danger. There is probably a psychological expression for this delusion, which has the effect of quelling any actually-productive response to danger by implanting a sense that one has done something. By virtue of this delusion, Americans will darkly mutter in dismay and disapproval the whole time they are being fitted out for shackles and penury, while never actually bestirring themselves into a lick of self-defense.

This is doubly a tragedy and a scandalous shame in light of the fact that all that really needs to be done is so simple. It is actually nothing more than invoking and upholding our laws as written, and resuming what has historically been the norm in this great country.

ANYWAY, I HAVE NOW FILLED IN what Mr. Anderson left out-- please take heed. I have also shared these thoughts with Anderson himself, so that next time he writes on bad things done by government he can include the universal solution: Spread and learn what CtC teaches, and thereby take the fuel from the federal wildfire that otherwise is going to burn down our house.

YOU will encounter this same example of Einstein's definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results) all the time in articles all over the internet, especially from "alt-media" types. Since in this case it is your liberty that is going undefended in the face of dire threat due to these delusional expectations, I urge you to follow my example and point the problem out to the pundit involved.

Maybe if enough of us do so, these folks will decide to stop being part of the problem and instead become part of the solution.

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Recent Police Killings Are NOT A White-Cop-Black-Victim Issue

PEOPLE, THE EPIDEMIC OF UNPUNISHED ABUSIVE POLICE BEHAVIOR recently put front-and-center on a lot of radar screens (even though long a fixture on the American landscape) is being spun into what is (shamefully) relative political insignificance by mischaracterizing it as a racist thing. It is not.

The epidemic of police misbehavior is an epidemic of police misbehavior, period. The problem we all should be having with this is not that people of color are being abused by virtually unaccountable  and increasingly reflexive and arrogant police violence, but that anybody is, white, black or polka-dotted.

Vicki Weaver wasn't black, nor were many of the Branch Davidians, nor were the Americans murdered by drone strike in Yemen a few years ago. Nor were many of the "Occupy" activists.

The homeless man beaten to death by cops in California a few years ago wasn't black. Nor are many of the homeowners shot to death during midnight drug raids.

The fact is that police violence is an equal opportunity victimizer, making the point that the real issue is not racism but that police misbehavior is institutionalized. It isn't whether you are black or white when encountering the police; it is just that you are encountering them, and they are subject to no meaningful restraint.

Watch the video below. Warning: It will scare the sh*t out of you, just as it ought to (while hopefully energizing and not paralyzing you).

But watch it anyway and see whether you can detect any unique or dramatically-unbalanced focus of police misconduct based on race. I think you'll agree that this little collection of images reflects an equal-opportunity milieu of official criminality.

The common theme here is casual-- or at least unrestrained-- brutality. The root of the problem is a state and its subsidized provincial statelets grown far too big to retain the habits of respect for a people who, after all, usually just darkly mutter their dismay and disapproval while the water in which they are cooking gets closer to the boiling point.

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Let's Not Let The Torturers Control The Terms Of The Debate

ONGOING CURRENT EFFORTS BY JOHN BRENNAN (AND OTHERS) TO ARGUE AWAY their plain culpability and that of their associates and subordinates for the repeated crime of torture should be cutting no ice with anyone. Facing the release earlier this week of the Senate report on systematic violations of our laws against torture by United States actors over the course of a decade or more and under both the Bush II and Obama administrations, folks like Brenner have been trying to divert attention from the sole salient issue of the criminality of the behavior by claiming that some good was accomplished by it, so it should be forgiven.

Of course, the claim of good being done by the horrendous abuse catalogued in the Senate report is nonsense on stilts. Remember the identical claims by the defender of NSA surveillance crimes about "50 terrorist plots foiled", which then became only a handful, really, and then was finally admitted to be none at all? This "plots foiled by torture" thing is more of the same.

BUT THIS IS IRRELEVANT ANYWAY!  It wouldn't matter if two dozen "9/11s" were foiled by torture. IT'S A CRIME! And a heinous, blood-curdlingly-psychotic crime at which decent people recoil, although that, too, is irrelevant.

IT'S EITHER THE RULE OF LAW, or plainly, there are no rules at all, and thugs will do and get away with anything, and when violation of the law is forgiven because of the alleged utility of the offense, a wound is opened through which, in time, all the lifeblood of the law will drain away. Don't be fooled by, and don't stand for, this effort by Brennan and his thug-cronies to flog this bs diversion. Prosecute them all.

"What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? ... And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you – where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's, and if you cut them down -- and you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!"

-Attributed to Thomas Beckett by Robert Bolt in 'A Man for All Seasons'

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A Word To Those Focused On The Need For A Simpler Presentation Of CtC

WITH ALL RESPECT AND AFFECTION FOR THOSE WHO ARGUE THAT CtC can't be successfully spread as it needs to be until a simplified version is available, as argued in a comment recently posted on the newsletter page, no. While yet another simpler presentation of CtC is, in fact, being written, it is not the answer to the problem of the slow spread of this knowledge throughout America.

Put another way, the lack of a simpler presentation is not the problem. The problem is simply that what I have already written is not being shared with others.

I'll put this as bluntly as I can: YOU DON'T NEED TO BE ABLE TO EXPLAIN CtC IN ORDER TO SHARE IT! You don't have to be able to defend it in order to share it. You don't even need to understand it yourself in order to share it. YOU JUST HAVE TO SHARE IT.

Not meaning to be rude, but only for purposes of illustration: Can you explain gravity? I can't either. But I am not hesitant to tell my children that it exists, and how it will affect them. With CtC, you simply need to declare that no one has a right to just assert an ownership interest in your labor or the wealth it produces and then take it from you (even if their cronies and clients urge them on), that our American legal structure agrees (even if the voracious State would rather you don't know that), and here is a book (or website) in which you can learn the truth about all this. THAT'S IT.

HERE'S ANOTHER BLUNT FACT: You might not yet feel comfortable in your understanding of CtC's revelations, and that's fine. It can be hard to get there when you've been conditioned all your life to believe contrary mythology, which is continually broadcast at you by a scary, enormous state apparatus. The enemy of your understanding is resident in your own head, and that's tough to overcome. BUT THE PERSON WITH WHOM YOU SHARE CtC MIGHT GET THERE EVEN WHILE YOU ARE STILL STRUGGLING.

You don't need a simpler CtC. You just need to be Johnny Appleseed, planting seeds across the land and never even looking back to see if anything is growing.*

 

*But all that said, if you find you can't get folks to read what is admittedly a challenging book without giving them an easy-to-grasp reason for doing so beyond the simple one suggested above, don't forget about Bob's Bicycles. It's about as simple as anything ever could be, and tells the whole story in eight easy pages. The only reason it isn't enough for some folks is that they can't believe it could be that simple, and so just refuse to accept it, or are misled into paralyzing doubt of their own eyes and reason by the fact that the State hasn't yet abandoned its self-serving mythologies in the face of their exposure. Share Bob's Bicycles first along with this page (making sure it is read at both the top and the bottom) and this video with those for whom you feel they are needed. That should be enough to engage anyone who is capable of getting engaged.

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Be sure to wait and see both panels of this animated graphic, and please paste it into emails and share it widely. Most folks will "get it" without a word of explanation necessary.

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“I didn’t say it would be easy, I just said it would be the truth.”

-Morpheus

 

Make someone you love sweat bullets this year...

(...and show them you think they're the greatest!)

 

I think we'd all agree that sometimes the truth can be a pesky thing-- demanding, disturbing, and seriously inconvenient.  The fact is, when you know the truth, you have to act on it, or be party to a lie; and when that lie is old, entrenched, vigorously defended and comfortingly familiar, the correcting truth can be very hard to learn, and even harder to act upon.

 

That's why one of the most challenging gifts to receive this holiday season is a copy of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'.

 

Learning the truth about the income tax means setting aside misconceptions nurtured for a lifetime.  Acting on that truth means abandoning lifelong servility to the state through the offices of the IRS-- the one organization whose carefully cultivated reputation as a rabid junkyard dog is feared by everyone in America.

 

Both of those things are really hard!

 

However, those very same challenges also make 'Cracking the Code-...' the most rewarding gift to get or give this holiday season.

 

After all, how better could you communicate to those you love the high degree of esteem in which you hold them?  How more certain of your high regard could they be made, after such a display of your faith in their character?

 

(Helping them stop unnecessary losses of up to 40% or more of their earnings each year goes over pretty well, too, by the way...)

 

So, pass out a little panic this year.

 

Then stand back and watch your special someone stand tall, like the real American he or she was born to be.

 

 

Warriors!  Don't Forget About Grandpa!!

The sequel to CtC is now available!! Click the image below for details!

(Orders received by 18 December with the 'Priority Mail' shipping option selected should arrive in plenty of time for Christmas.)

 

If You're Already a CtC Warrior, Aren't You Really, Really Glad YOU'VE Taken Control Of Whether Any Of YOUR Money Goes To Washington, Just As The Founders Intended?

 

If You're Not A CtC Warrior, Isn't It Time You Became One?

 

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Am I Supposed To Be Afraid Of This?

A nice little commentary by Jack Perry

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American Understanding Of The 16th Amendment At The Time Of Adoption

WERE YOU AWARE THAT OUT OF A POPULATION OF 122 MILLION+, with more than 45 million gainfully-occupied, only 4.171 million tax returns were filed by Americans in 1925? That is, were you aware that the America of 1925, consisting of the generation that had adopted the 16th Amendment 12 years before, found that only about 9% of its adult, working citizens were subject to the tax, even though a vastly higher percentage of these folks earned more money than the very low exemption figure of $1,500?

Watch this new film about Americans from the time when everyone knew the meaning of "capitation" and "excise" and knew what the 16th Amendment really did (and didn't do). Get the liberty-enhancing facts, Jack...

SHARE THIS VIDEO WIDELY!! You've got to be the teachers, my friends-- or the lessons will not be taught. Share this page, or at least the video link at: http://youtu.be/http://youtu.be/qd46hg4Wj0Y, and when you do, direct your correspondent to follow-up by taking in losthorizons.com/Documents/The16th.htm" target="_blank"> the all-important big-picture context for these revelations.

Here are links to other recent educational films: 'Educated Americans Love The Income Tax' and 'Busting The Myth-Mongers'. And don't forget this one: 'Now, More Than Ever, It's Time To Learn The Truth About The Income Tax'.

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

-I. F. Stone

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In The End, It's A Question Of Morality

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THOSE IN DENIAL OF THE TRUTH ABOUT THE INCOME TAX laid out in cold, hard, unambiguous documentation on the previous pages has always fascinated me.  These folks are presented with a simple choice between an obvious, patently ridiculous fiction and a plain, thoroughly-documented truth which has been being continuously acknowledged for years now even by the peddlers of the absurd fiction.  Yet the deniers still manage to avoid choosing to embrace the truth.

On the one hand, these deniers are invited to imagine that their ancestors were drooling idiots, who inexplicably authorized their government agents to seize any portion of anybody’s and everybody’s earnings, at the whim of those agents, in perpetuity.  According to this myth, the only "control" imposed on this utterly despotic power is that those who abuse it can be turned out of office afterwards (by what might then be an utterly ruined and subjugated population).  Simply to describe this fantasy in plain words reveals it to be nonsense-- indeed, even after what most of them would admit has been a life-time of conditioning to the acceptance of mammoth government, not one of the deniers themselves would be so daft as to grant such authority to the state.

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The Motor City Witchcraft Trial(s)

A NEW BOOK CHRONICLING DOREEN HENDRICKSON'S heresy trial has hit the presses. Find it here, and read all about it! [NOTE: Doreen's sentencing date has been postponed to December 10 at 1:30PM]

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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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"[T]axes are not raised to carry on wars; [it is, rather,] that wars are raised to carry on taxes."

-Tom Paine

 

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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, 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

 

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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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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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TOOLS FOR SPREADING THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX

 

 

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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

 

Click here to take the test

 

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

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

So I'm okay with submissively letting my federal and state governments:

  • take 35-45% of my earnings;

  • habituate themselves to the conveniences of "creativity" in the writing of laws and the behavior of their 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 armies 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;

  • etc.... etc.... etc..

I'm good with all of it, just as long as I'm left alone, dude!

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TELL ME THIS ISN'T YOU!

TELL ME YOU UNDERSTAND that leaving the government alone to break the law with impunity (and worse, participating in the process by lying on your own sworn tax returns, or by silently acquiescing to the erroneous allegations of others about your earnings) ensures NOT ONLY that you are morally and legally compromised, but also that you WON'T be "left alone, dude!"

You DO understand this, right, dude?

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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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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??

 

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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!

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BY THE WAY... 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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"Never must thou take up a false cry, or join hands with the guilty by giving false witness in their favor. Never must thou follow with the crowd in doing wrong, or be swayed by many voices so as to give false judgment; even pity for the poor must not sway thee when judgment is to be given."

-Exodus 23:1-3

 

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!

 

“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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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite

 

USE THE SITE MAP!!!

 

USE THE SITE SEARCH!!!

 

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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