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“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

 

FRIENDS!!

The Sixth Annual Declaration Day Party Is Coming Up Fast!

 

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Do you know someone truly steeped in the Kool-Aid?

 

 I mean someone who finds it easier to believe that the far-better-educated, far-more-suspicious-of-government Americans of a hundred years ago were complete morons who granted authority to the state to take whatever it wished from themselves and their posterity than to imagine that they themselves simply misunderstand the true nature of the income tax? Even while knowing that their beliefs about the tax are derived entirely from the representations of those who profit from those beliefs (like tax bureaucrats and "tax professionals")?

 

Do you know someone like that? Shake them awake with a copy of CtC!

 

Features in this week's newsletter:

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People keep getting this backwards...

Here's How It Works:

FIRST Enough People Must Learn The Truth About The Tax, THEN Institutional Resistance To That Truth Will End

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The LostHorizons.com Income Tax Quizzes

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This week's reading recommendation

The Good Guys Are NOT Coming To Save Us

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Taking steps to keep it all real

Wickard v. Filburn Revisited

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Just the cynic in me talkin' here...

Could This Be Why The Crime Of Guantanamo Bay Lingers On?

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Guess what? There are only two possibilities:

You Either Stand Up For The Truth, Or You've Surrendered To The Lie

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Spotlights on the past that help bring clarity to the present:

Illuminating Anniversaries for this week

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"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes."

- Thomas Paine

 

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You can't understand the present if you don't understand the past...

 

Illuminating Anniversaries Of This Week

May 10- In 1768, John Wilkes is imprisoned for writing an article critical of King George III.  The arrest prompts a riot by his supporters.  In 1775, the Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia.  In 1801, the Barbary Pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America after newly-inaugurated President Thomas Jefferson decided to stop paying them the tribute they had been receiving from previous administrations.  In 1869, the Lincoln administration's transcontinental railroad is completed when the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroad lines meet in Promontory Summit, Utah.  The Union Pacific organization had built west from Council Bluffs, Iowa (a spot which was, at the time of selection, 150 miles from the nearest existing rail line, but which offered Lincoln personal political and financial benefits); Central had built east from Sacramento.  Both rail lines were heavily subsidized with land grants and were made subject to permanent significant federal control, as were a number of other smaller lines contracted to construct feeders from major terminal cities along the way.  In 1994, Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as president of South Africa after spending 27 years in prison for "crimes against the state", which included a campaign of sabotage against military and civilian government targets, and the making of plans for a guerilla war against the government.  In 2012, terrorists supported by the United States detonated two suicide car bombs outside government buildings in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 and injuring 400.  Some voices challenge that assignment of responsibility, claiming that the Assad regime carried out the bombings itself as a false-flag operation designed to justify the regime's past and future actions.  But everyone knows THAT kind of thing never happens, right?

 

Anniversaries of interest for each day of the upcoming week will be found throughout the newsletter below.

 

FOREWORD

This is just for those in the "tax honesty" community...

 

"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

 

Here's How It Works:

FIRST Enough People Must Learn The Truth About The Tax, THEN Institutional Resistance To That Truth Will End

 

I RECEIVED A LETTER LAST WEEK in which my correspondent said, in part, "As I read your material it seems a great deal is written to validate your assertions. As far as I am concerned, you do not need to be validated. I believe you have it right! ... I find myself wishing I could edit all that [validation material] out and just concentrate on the nuts and bolts of it." This gentle complaint prompted me to reflect on what I am impelled to write for these newsletters week after week, and why.

 

After all, my correspondent's question is a good one. Why DO I spend so much time pointing and adding to the already huge body of evidence proving that by any and every standard and authority, CtC is correct and complete? The accuracy of CtC as to the legal nature of the income tax, the manner in which the tax is routinely mis-administered to fall on earnings to which it doesn't apply, what should be done about that by the victim, and the concerted effort of state apparatchiks and "tax professionals" to evade and suppress this (to them inconvenient) truth has long been unmistakably clear to any open and honest mind.

 

Even the details of the assaults on me personally serve to prove the accuracy and importance of CtC. Consider the following short "highlights" list:

  • the resort in the criminal assault against me to insisting that the jury not see the actual statutory definitions of what I was charged with believing myself to have received when I said I did not on my returns-- even after the jury itself asked to see them-- and denying me access to an IRS expert to put on the stand (not to mention the very absurdity of the charges in the first place), among much else.

All of these establish that CtC is dead-on accurate and complete. None of them have happened otherwise. Indeed, not only would none of these bizarre and obvious violations of the law have even been dreamed of were evasion of the truth not the order of the day, but anything remotely like any of them would be scrupulously avoided at all costs if ever an honest challenge of CtC were attempted, just because of what is plainly indicated by their appearance.

 

FOR INSTANCE, WHY WOULD YOU EVEN DREAM OF ASKING A COURT TO order someone to rescind their return and fill one out to your specifications if what you were "specifying" was true in the first place? If it was true, you would have no interest in, or need for, such a bogus device.

 

Instead, you'd produce your own return attesting to what you claim to be true (just like the law REQUIRES the government to do in such a case, by the way-- see parts C and D of this motion currently pending before the court, the government's fraud-ridden response attempting to evade the law by frankly lying about case-law, and my reply detailing those evasions). If true, your allegations would be provable; you would prove them; and that would be that.

 

You'd win judgment based on your evidence. You'd assess the tax, and move on, with no interest in, or need for, coerced testimony from your opponent supporting your allegations. Indeed, you'd avoid any risk of tainting your victory with this kind of effort to game the system, skirt the law and evade your opponents' freely-made testimony with a ten-foot-pole, even if some nut-case brought the notion up for some reason.

 

Think about this! Isn't it obvious and unmistakable that an attempt to force a defendant to repudiate existing testimony and sign a dictated-content affidavit validating the plaintiff's claims is an admission that the plaintiff can't prove his own case? It's a glaring admission.

 

That this request for coerced testimony WAS made is the most dramatic possible admission that the government cannot prove a case against CtC.

 

It is also evidence of how desperate the state is to slow the spread of this liberating information. Taking a chance on the public not thinking through what is really proven by this episode and it simply being overlooked by the non-pressitute "punditry" is risky. But the risk got taken anyway, and no surprise when you think about what's at stake...

 

THE OTHER EVASIONS IN MY LITTLE LIST are likewise plain and dramatic evidence of the truth. Securing an injunction prohibiting my wife and me from doing something we wouldn't do in any event, and never had, which is constructed and presented to look as though it is disputes what is said in CtC while carefully not actually doing so at all, is as frank an admission that what IS said in CtC can't be disputed as you could get short of a press conference announcing an overt government surrender to this truth.

 

Similarly, balking at a jury seeing the actual statutory definitions intimately relevant to a case (and insisting that it deliberate using prosecution-written substitutes for those definitions, which are inherently different, of course) is a flat admission that the prosecution couldn't win if the jury saw what the law really says. I can't think of any evidence that could make the truth more clear to any rational, Kool-Aid-free brain.

 

These are just three little examples of a large and elaborate body of evidence of the truth about the tax just arising out of corrupt statist efforts to suppress that truth. The evidence from outright formal concrete admissions is far greater and unending, and that from cited and deeply-researched authority and scholarship is also vast and comprehensive.

 

SO, OK, THE TRUTH IS OBVIOUS AND THOROUGHLY PROVEN. Why, then do I keep on presenting more and more "validation" evidence?

 

Well, for one thing, more and more keeps piling up. Mostly this is as a consequence of the staggeringly-admirable actions of noble American men and women who have risen to uphold the rule of law and enforce the Constitution, even in the face of the government's scary behavior in its attacks on me and its huge campaign over ten-years-time now to frighten people away from CtC.

 

I HAVE to honor those magnificent men and women and their outstanding upstandingness (if I can be forgiven for that little fillip). It wouldn't be right to not do so.

 

For another thing, since there is a deeply-rooted campaign laboring night-and-day on scores of websites to drive the evidence of the truth and the ability to reason logically from that evidence out of peoples' minds, I feel as though I have no choice but to keep presenting more evidence and explaining its import. Trust me, I'm tired of this exercise, but until at least a few in the "pundit" class abandon their shameful fear of writing about real "strike-at-the-root" activism by which those scary statists actually feel threatened and take up some of the load of spreading the word I must continue as loudly as I can.

 

After all, I WANT LIBERTY AND THE RULE OF LAW RESTORED IN MY LIFETIME! At a minimum, I'm not going to go to my grave, or dare to look my kids in the eye, knowing that I didn't do what I could to make it happen.

 

When enough other voices are hard at work sharing the truth and encouraging Americans to remember that 1.) they are entitled to a law-abiding state and 2.) the only way that happens is when each of us acts to make it happen, I can then rest from this and focus on other tasks. But only then.

 

The disturbing fact is, we don't have an infinitely-wide window of opportunity in which to overcome all the misinformation and disinformation out there about the real nature of the tax or the intimately-connected real relationship between American men and women and the state as laid out in the fundamental law and as still faithfully-conformed-to by the federal statutory-structure. Those legal realities will avail us not at all once too large a portion of the population is incapable of learning, reasoning or even conceiving of the truth thanks to increasingly effective and unadulterated conditioning by an increasingly corrupt and unscrupulous state ever-more invested in public ignorance and apathy.

 

 

ALL RIGHT, SO THERE'S THE ANSWER to the first part of my correspondent's observation and concern. I constantly add to the "validation" because I can and because I must, both out of respect for those producing the ongoing river of evidence and because my going silent on this would be the effective strangling in its crib of this beautiful, liberating truth about the critically-important limits in the law on the income tax, understanding and actualization of which makes us a free people and without which we are merely serfs.

 

The other question implied by my correspondent's words is: Why do I spend so [relatively] little time on the "nuts and bolts" of the tax?

 

Well, here it is: For most folks, there ARE no "nuts and bolts" needing explication!

 

The fact is, everything most folks need to know about the "nuts and bolts" consist of two simple Q & As: "What is "income" (and thus subject to the tax and needing to be reported or acknowledged as such)"? and "how does someone erroneously alleged to have received "income" correct the record and (if necessary) re-claim amounts withheld or paid-in against a tax which proves to never have been owed"? Both of these questions are thoroughly answered already, and have been since CtC first appeared in 2003.

 

The reason "nuts and bolts" SEEM to need further explication is the persistence of various forms of institutional resistance to the truth about those two Q & A subjects. This includes, for example, the persistent practice of non-"income" payers creating "information returns" (W-2s, 1099s, K-1s, and so forth).

 

Likewise, there's the persistent habit of many businesses of treating all relations with workers and customers as tax-relevant. Then there's the policy of some government actors to periodically attempt "We can't hear you...!" and "Evidence, we don't need any stinking evidence!!" pretenses in corrupt efforts to discourage, evade or intimidate Americans who have learned and invoked the truth.

 

All of these behaviors make it seem that the good guys must be missing a nuts and bolts "key"-- a "make everyone obey the law without a struggle" statute that is also the one statute among all the others that at least the official institutional resisters cannot resist. I'm afraid there is no such statute (and there has never been such an corruption-proof "silver bullet" in the history of the world).

 

However...

 

WHEN ENOUGH PEOPLE LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX, THIS PERSISTENT RESISTANCE WILL STOP.

 

Further, ONLY when enough people learn the truth about the tax will this resistance stop (or at least that's the only certain way to make it happen...).

 

The fact is, there are powerful, active corrupt interests that BENEFIT from this institutional resistance and vigorously encourage it. Those interests hope this resistance will discourage those who know the truth (or prompt them into casting about for some imaginary "missing piece of the puzzle" by which the resistance must be justified, and consequently making filings which are adulterated and compromised by some of the zillion "tax honesty" errors that are thick on the ground all over the internet).

 

Those beneficiary interests also hope those who DON'T already know the truth won't even start to seriously look. The idea is that those who don't already know the truth will be fooled by the superficial appearance of this kind of resistance into imagining that there is really nothing to find.

 

Those interests will keep that resistance alive and an active pain in the ass for everyone until too many people know the truth for that kind of defiance of the law to survive.

 

So, I WILL write regularly on "nuts and bolts" subjects (as I always have). But my focus is going to continue to be putting the truth in front of as many people as possible, and in the most unmistakable, you've-got-to-take-the-time-to-look-further fashion as possible. Yours should be, too.

 

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."

– Voltarine de Cleyre

 

Learn what the law actually says...

 

...and why it says that

 

 

 

 

 

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 11- In 1310, 54 members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake as heretics, having been tortured into confessions to this effect by on the orders of King Philip IV of France, who was deeply in debt to the order, and saw the charges as a way of eliminating this problem and allowing the seizure of Templar assets, to boot .  In 1858, Minnesota becomes the 32nd of the several states, and is admitted into the union as such.  In 1973, charges against Daniel Ellsberg for releasing "the Pentagon Papers", a 7,000-page top-secret United States government report about the history of the Government's internal planning and policy concerning the Vietnam War, are dismissed.

 

Real Americans don't accommodate fog, lies and a sliding scale of adherence to the rule of law. Real American men and women stand up for the truth and the law, come what may, knowing that it is only by setting the bar at the top and enforcing it, come what may, that liberties are secured.

 

"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

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

 

The Sixth Annual CtC Warrior Declaration Day* Party Is Coming Up Fast!!
 
Once again, the party's at Pete and Doreen's place; and this year we'll do it on Saturday, July 6.
If you're a CtC Warrior on my email ist, YOU'RE INVITED!!
 
Doreen and I will supply the dogs, the chips, some fun and games, and maybe even some fireworks, if the township's schedule is as friendly to ours as it has been in the past.  You bring your love of liberty, your conversation, and your kids, too!
 
If you're within striking distance of SE Michigan and care to join us, please RSVP to feedback '@' losthorizons.com ASAP, with "Party" in the subject line, and further details will be provided.  (Delete the spaces and apostrophes in the email address to make it work...)
 
I hope to see you all there!
 
*Declaration Day: The day the American colonists expressed their intention to be free and individually sovereign at any cost, even that of their lives.  Although it is true that an important kind of independence was realized that day, it was an independence of the spirit only.  Nobody found themselves free to go about their business the next day, unmolested in the exercise of their new liberty due to having laid their claim to that liberty.  It was not until many bloody years after formally declaring that they
"...hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness;"
and recognized
 "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the consent of the governed,"
and
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness;"
that Americans actually found themselves able to exercise a true, hard-won independence.
 
The declaration was the key and critical first step.  It put the sacred honor of the declarants at stake in their faithful enforcement of that bold resolution.  Once having said that
"...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is [the people's] right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new guards for their future security,"
there's no going back to subordination with one's honor intact.
 
Thus we properly celebrate the 4th of July as the anniversary of the public announcement of the revolutionary's momentous decision.  But it is equally proper to be mindful that independence was merely the destination on the horizon toward which the colonists resolutely set their course that day.  It was only faithful, stubborn, come-hell-or-high-water-enforcement that actually secured-- seven long years and much hell-and-high-water later-- the practical reality of the independence bravely declared in that summer of 1776.

 

 

Tens of thousands of readers of 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' have taken control of their own resources, in accordance with, and respect for, the law. The likely total amount reclaimed by these good Americans so far is upward of several billion dollars.

A few of these good American men and women are generous enough to share their victories in upholding the law, for the edification and inspiration of everyone. At the moment the shared refund checks, closing notices, and so forth total

DON'T YOU NEED TO KNOW THE TRUTH, TOO??!!

 

Do you have a victory to share?  Click here to learn how to do so.

 

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 12- In 1780, Charleston, South Carolina is captured by the British army.  In 1862, Baton Rouge, Louisiana is captured by the Union army.  In 1941, the first fully-programmable, fully-automatic computer, the Z3, was introduced by inventor Konrad Zuse, in Berlin, Germany.  In 1965, the Soviet Union's 'Luna 5' spacecraft crash-lands on the Moon.  In 1967, Pink Floyd stages the first quadraphonic rock concert.

 

“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

 

How About You?

 

Are You Governing Yourself?

 

Get The Knowledge, Reclaim Your Power, And Stand With The Founders

 

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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING:

 

The Good Guys Are NOT Coming To Save Us

by Paul Rosenberg

 

A lot of Americans know that the US government is out of control. Anyone who has cared enough to study the US Constitution even a little knows this. Still, very few of these people are taking any significant action, and largely because of one error: They are waiting for “the good guys” to show up and fix things.

Some think that certain groups of politicians will pull it together and fix things, or that one magnificent politician will ride in to fix things. Others think that certain members of the military will step in and slap the politicians back into line. And, I’m sure there are other variations.

There are several problems with this. I’ll start with the small issues:

  1. It doesn’t happen. A lot of good people have latched on to one grand possibility after another, waiting for a good guy to save the day, and it just doesn’t happen. Thousands of hours of reading, writing and waiting are burned with each new “great light” who comes along with a promise to run the system in the “right” way, and give us liberty and truth. (Or whatever.) Lots of decent folks grab on to one pleasant dream after another, only to end up right back where they started… but poorer in time, energy and finances.

  2. Hope is a scam. It’s a dream of someday, somehow, getting something for nothing. People who hope do not act – they wait for other people to act. Hope is a tool to neuter a natural opposition: they sit and hope, and never act against you. Even the biblical meaning of hope is something more like expectation (or sometimes waiting) than the modern use of hope.

  3. Petitioning an abuser for compassion. The “good guys” are considered to be a few people inside the abusive government. But if the good guys were really good, wouldn’t they have dissociated themselves with an abuser some time ago? By pleading for the good guys to rise up, people are asking one sub-group of the abusers to save them from the rest of the abusers. However, they all work for the same operation; they all get paid out of the same offices; according to the same rulebook. And if the good guys are so willing to turn against their employers, why would they have waited until now?

  4. Movies. We all grew up in the company of movie heroes who rode in at the last minute to save the noble victims. From John Wayne to Star Trek to Bruce Willis, the story line differs little. These are pleasant stories, of course, but cinema is not reality, and hoping for it to become reality is something that we should get over prior to adulthood.

But, as I say, those are the smaller issues. Let’s move on to the serious ones.

 

Click here to read the rest of this article

 

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Aren't you glad that YOU'VE taken control of how much of YOUR WEALTH facilitates Washington's misbehavior?!

Even as ardent a statist as Abraham Lincoln, in announcing his willingness to burn the Southern states to the ground in order to keep them paying the tariff for the benefit of Northern interests in his first inaugural address on March 4, 1861, paid at least lip service to the Founders design of leaving control over the fuel available to feed the fires Washington wants to light in the hands of the individual citizenry when he said, "Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part; and I shall perform it, unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means..."

 

Held over:

Disinformation-How it works

by Brandon Smith

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'The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude'

by Étienne de la Boétie

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 13- In 1787, Captain Arthur Philip leaves Portsmouth, England with an 11-ship fleet carrying the first convicts bound for Australia.  In 1846, the United States declares war on Mexico.  In 1939, the first commercial FM radio station in America begins broadcasting (WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut, originally designated W1XPW).  In 1967, Zakir Hussain becomes the first Muslim president of India.  In 1981, Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II.  In 1989, students gathered in Tiananmen Square in Beijing begin a hunger strike.  In 1998, India conducts two nuclear weapons tests.  The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India in response.

 

There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated.

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

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Wickard v. Filburn Revisited

 

IN THE COURSE OF A PROPAGANDA-FOR LEVIATHAN PROGRAM on PBS the other night called "Constitution, USA", reference was made to the infamous Supreme Court ruling in Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942). This was the case in which the post-packing-threat court, seeking to find a rationale for upholding any idiotic or outrageous law dreamed up by the Roosevelt administration, no matter how unauthorized or abhorred by the Constitution.

 

Filburn had grown a bunch of wheat to feed his own livestock. This made the Roosevelt thugs unhappy. They said that because Filburn grew enough for his own needs, he wasn't forced into the market to buy any, and therefore wasn't contributing demand pressure that would keep the price of what was meant to be a limited supply of marketed wheat as high as the administration wanted it to be. They proposed to punish Filburn for growing more than what the administration meant to allow him, invoking the power to regulate commerce among the several states as their purported authority for doing so.

 

Filburn said too bad-- it's his wheat, grown on his land and it never entered the market even locally, much less "among the states". It wasn't something subject to the authority delegated by the Commerce Clause.

 

YOU'D HAVE EXPECTED FILBURN'S ARGUMENT TO CARRY THE DAY, seeing as it's obviously correct. But you'd be wrong. That is, while Filburn's argument does clearly carry the day-- he's right, and that means he wins the question of who has the law on his side-- the Supreme Court contrived to give the trophy to the Roosevelt thugs anyway.

 

Sadly, by that point in our history, what had previously been a mostly independent court (and a pretty consistently virtuous one during the pre-court-packing Roosevelt years) had become a creative apologist for whatever the executive decided it wanted to do. Filburn's case is the perfect example of the depths of the intellectual prostitution to which the court had abandoned itself. The court upheld the farmer's punishment based on the absurd and pernicious "reasoning" that the authority to regulate commerce among the states comprised authority to control whatever Congress imagined AFFECTED commerce among the states!

 

This is like saying that your authority over the activities of a horse you own comprises the authority to control everything that might AFFECT your horse's behavior-- such as the authority to order potentially spooking cars off any road on which you intend to ride, or to prohibit your neighbors from painting their houses and barns colors you think will upset the beast. Plainly this is nonsense.

 

Your authority is over your horse. It is not over things that you think will affect your horse, nor even over things everyone AGREES would affect your horse. Even if your horse really is maddened by the color green, this fact doesn't give you the authority to stop your neighbor from painting his house that color. It just means that you have to go to the trouble of keeping your horse from seeing it-- by YOUR effort.

 

The "Commerce Clause" [relevantly] delegates authority to the feds to regulate commerce among the several states. As in the case of your horse, this means Congress is authorized to regulate only what actually IS commerce among the several states, not what it imagines AFFECTS what actually is commerce among the several states.

 

FURTHER, "COMMERCE AMONG THE STATES" ISN'T COMPRISED OF THINGS that move in commerce anyway, and isn't rationally capable of being affected by "things" even when they ARE of a commercial nature. "Commerce among the states" is the process by which commerce among the states takes place. It has nothing to do with the nature or quantity of the things affected by that process.

 

According to James Madison, the chief architect of the Constitution, the purpose of the clause is to provide Congress with "a superintending authority over the reciprocal trade of confederated States" for "the relief of the States which import and export through other States, from the improper contributions levied on them by the latter." In other words, the purpose of the clause is to prevent one State from taxing goods passing through it into another.

 

The Commerce Clause is a delegation of authority over what happens when goods cross state lines. It is NOT authority over WHAT goods cross, or what goods MIGHT cross, or things that MIGHT AFFECT WHETHER goods cross, or ANYTHING except the process by which what goods ARE crossing state lines do so.

 

AS OBSERVED EVEN IN THE LEVIATHAN APOLOGIA by which I was reminded of Wickard v. Filburn, pretty much every "regulatory" violation of the limits on federal power intended by the framers which held steady for around 150+ years before collapsing during the 1930 and 40s is justified by some contorted reading of the "commerce clause". In light of that fact, I'd like to offer:

 

A Much-Needed Twenty-Eighth Amendment To The United States Constitution

 

Here's the text of the amendment I'm proposing:

"The power of Congress to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes shall be exercised solely for the purpose and to the effect of ensuring that such commerce is unhindered and unburdened by any restrictions, prohibitions or charges imposed from any quarter or by any authority, other than such tariffs on foreign imports as are elsewhere provided for herein."

This amendment will simply restore the Commerce Clause to its proper and intended scope—preventing the several states from interfering with the passage of goods and services across their borders to or from the hands of their citizens and residents.

 

PLEASE COPY THE TEXT ABOVE and send it to your US congresscritters (rep and senators). As much as it might be easier to get this pushed forward by the states, the only method by that avenue calls for a Constitutional Convention, not the proposing of a single amendment. The latter is what we want (and we DON'T want the former). Have them tell you what they do toward this purpose, and then you tell me, so I can coordinate their effort with others and push for support nationwide.

 

Taking Steps To Keep It Real

 

CtC Warrior Barry Sullivan came across an egregious, sustained error in a very widely-used high school history textbook. The text is 'The Americans: Reconstruction to the 21st Century', published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Within, there is a section on the United States Constitution, and in that section are several wildly- and dangerously-incorrect assertions about the various taxing provisions in that fundamental law.

 

Recognizing the significance of the implantation of this bad information in millions of impressionable young minds, Barry took action with a letter to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt explaining the errors. Barry's letter, the initial response from the publisher, and a few more comments follow:

 

03/08/2013

                                                                                                Barry Sullivan

                                                                                                XXXX Xxxxxxxxxx Xxx.

                                                                                                Xxxxxxxx, XX XXXXX

 

Hoghton Mifflin Harcourt

9400 South Park Center Loop

Orlando, FL 32819

 

RE:

The Americans:

Reconstruction to the 21st Century

ISBN 978-0-547-49117-2

 

I wish to call your attention to some serious errors in the above mentioned textbook published by your company:

 

In the review chapter where it discusses the Constitution of the United States, the text states that language which is no longer in effect is crossed out.

 

On page 84, in Article 1, Section 2, Clause 3, the words “... and direct Taxes...” is crossed out. This is incorrect. As will be explained, direct Taxes must still be apportioned among the several States. This has never changed.

 

On page 89, in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4, the words “...or other direct , Tax...” and ...”unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration herein before directed to be taken.” are also incorrectly struck out as no longer applicable.

 

On page 100, the text incorrectly states that Amendment 16 modifies Article 1, Section 9. This is also untrue. In the sidebar “Constitutional Insight” it says that income tax is a direct tax, when the truth is that it is excise tax.

 

These errors seem to stem from widely held misconceptions of the meaning and implications of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, a general ignorance of the Supreme Court decisions regarding it, the nature of the income tax itself, and the apparently deliberate promotion of these misunderstandings by the beneficiaries of the income tax.

 

Following the ratification of the 16th Amendment, the Supreme Court addressed the new amendment in Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916):

           

  “We are of opinion, however, that the confusion is not inherent, but rather arises from the conclusion that the 16th Amendment provides for a hitherto unknown power of taxation; that is, a power to levy an income tax which, although direct, should not be subject to the regulation of apportionment applicable to all other direct taxes. And the far-reaching effect of this erroneous assumption will be made clear by generalizing the many contentions in argument to support it...”

 

   “But it clearly results that the proposition and the contentions under it, if acceded to, would cause one provision of the Constitution to destroy another, that is, they would result in bringing the provisions of the Amendment exempting a direct tax from apportionment into irreconcilable conflict with the general requirement that all direct taxes be apportioned.”

 

Here the Court was pointing out that the 16th Amendment did not modify Article 1, Section 9. (To do so would require that it specifically stated that modification, as all other repeals or modifications to portions of the Constitution do.) The Amendment, therefore, cannot be construed to be in conflict with, nor to modify, other provisions of the Constitution, and has no effect on their meaning.

 

Much of the confusion surrounding the 16th Amendment is founded in reverse logic based on an erroneous conclusion: that private earnings or other private gains which are not the result of federally granted privilege are subject to federal taxation; and thus the 16th Amendment must provide that they are. Neither the former nor the latter are true:

 

“The terms ‘excise tax’ and ‘privilege tax’ are synonymous. The two are often used interchangeably”  American Airways v. Wallace 57 F.2nd 877,880

 

“The right to follow any of the common occupations of life is an inalienable right…” Butcher’s Union Co. v. Crescent City Co., 111 U.S. 746 (1883)

 

“Since the right to receive income or earnings is a right belonging to every person, this right cannot be taxed as privilege.”  Jack Cole Company v. Alfred T. MacFarland, Commissioner, 205 Tenn. 694,337 S.W.2nd 453 Supreme
Court of Tennessee (1960)

 

“The income tax is not a tax on income as such. It is an excise tax with respect to certain activities and privileges which is measured by reference to the income which they produce. The income is not the subject of the tax: it is the basis for determining the amount of tax.” Morse Hubbard. Treasury Department legislative draftsman. House Congressional Record March 27th 1943, Page 2580.

 

It should be clear from the above that the tax on “income” referred to in the 16th Amendment is an excise, not a direct, tax on special privilege, the value of which is measured by the gains “derived” from the privilege. Since it is an excise tax on privilege, it is an indirect tax and not subject to regulation of apportionment. The fact that a vast majority of Americans mistakenly believe that their private earnings are subject to the tax, and unwittingly and unnecessarily pay it, does not change the actual nature of the income tax, nor the meaning of the 16th Amendment.

 

The 16th Amendment merely closed a “loophole” opened up by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pollock v. Farmer’s Loan & Trust, 157 U.S. 429 and 158 U.S. 601 (1895).

  

“The Brushaber court also seizes the opportunity reaffirm the core element of the “income” tax by pointing out that the only way to square the Sixteenth Amendment with Article 1, Sections 2 and 9 of the Constitution was through a fixed, customized definition of what had been a legal term and was now a Constitutional term; “income”. Because a tax on “income” is necessarily an excise, whatever is thus taxed as “income” MUST be confined to such things to which an excise can properly be applied. As the court puts it, taxation on “income” is,

‘…in its nature an excise entitled to be enforced as such unless and until it was concluded that to enforce it would amount to accomplishing the result which the requirement as to apportionment of direct taxation was adopted to prevent, in which 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.”’

-Cracking The Code / The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America, by Peter Hendrickson        

 

The 16th Amendment only applies to gains of type already taxable, (federal privilege), without regard that they derive from the ownership of private property, such as stock investments in federal instrumentalities, as in the Pollock case.

 

“The Sixteenth Amendment, although referrered to in argument, has no real bearing and may be put out of view. As pointed out in recent decisions, it does not extend the taxing power to new or excepted subjects, but merely removes all occasion, which otherwise might exist, for an apportionment among the several states of taxes laid on income, whether it be derived from one source or another.”

 

It is my hope that you understand that there is nothing “controversial” about this subject.. There is only correct information and incorrect information. The information I have provided you with is correct. Regrettably, the information contained in your textbook is incorrect.

 

Inasmuch as an embedded misconception of what the income tax really is can disastrously compromise the financial futures of impressionable high school students, it is imperative that you recall all of these textbooks, destroy them, and reissue them with the appropriate corrections.

 

I would very much like to know who the contributor is who provided the content in the textbook to which this letter refers. Please return that information to me at the address at the top of this letter. Thank you.

 

Sincerely,

 

 

Barry Sullivan

 

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's response so far:

 

 

Barry's initiative and activism is a kind of stepping-up-to-the-plate that is critically important today. It also highlights a problem that extends far beyond just highly-influential history texts like the one addressed here. Even what are supposed to be "movement" organizations like the Cato Institute, which proudly publishes a little pocket-sized booklet containing the founding documents, makes a version of this error therein.

 

These promulgations of bad information must be denounced and debunked and driven from our classrooms, especially, as well as from our public discourse. Barry has done a very important thing here, but his initiative needs the weight of your efforts, as well. I urge each of you to follow Barry's lead here with a letter of your own to these folks demanding the call-back of these errant texts and their replacement with accurate information.

 

"Be the change you want to see in the world." 

-Mahatma Gandhi

 

Doesn't it strike you as kind of sadly funny that many people made much of the fact that members of Congress didn't read the 'healthcare reform act' before signing it, and yet those same folks won't bother reading the tax laws before signing their own tax forms?

 

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-Jesse Herron, Bill Of Rights Press, Fort Collins, Colorado

 

GETTING IT GOOD AND HARD

A brief look at 100 years of Fiscal Folly; and a nice confirmation of CtC scholarship using four-generation-old data from the IRS itself.

 

CtC-Educated Lawyers: It's Way Past Time For You All To Queue Up!

 

[Y]ou really need to familiarize yourself with Pete Hendrickson's absolutely magnificent work at his website and in his book(s).  He has, brilliantly and lucidly, "cracked the code" regarding the federal income EXCISE tax(es)."

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-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

“Thanks again for your efforts, Pete. They mean an awful lot to a lot of people.” “…as an attorney, I am humbled by your knowledge and ability in navigating the law.  THANK YOU for your hard work and sacrifice.”

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 14- In 1796, the world's first smallpox vaccination is administered.  In 1804, the Lewis and Clark Expedition sets off.  1948, Jewish residents in the British "Mandate of Palestine" (who comprised about one third of the total population at the time, and owned less than 15% of the land) reject a United Nations plan to divide the mandate into equal-sized Jewish and Palestinian states (with Jerusalem under international administration) and declare the independent state of Israel, one day before the formal expiration of the mandate.  In 1961 the "Freedom Riders" bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil-rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob.  In 1998, the final episode of 'Seinfeld' airs.

 

  IGNORANCE TAX: An unnecessary exaction suffered out of ignorance as to its lawful objects and the means of its application by someone too lazy, frightened or misled to learn how it really works and to what it really applies.  See "Income Tax", "Social Security Tax", "Medicare Tax" and "Federal Unemployment Tax".

 

"It ain't what ya don't know that hurts ya. What really puts a hurtin' on ya is what ya knows for sure, that just ain't so."

--  Uncle Remus

 

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Could This Be Why The Crime Of Guantanamo Bay Lingers On?

 

SUPPOSE YOU WANTED TO INVADE IRAQ for reasons not likely to be acceptable to the people who would be paying for the exercise in blood, treasure and security such as that Saddam Hussein had shaken the petrodollar lock that helps prop up your trashy fiat currency gig and so was a growing threat to that house of cards; you believe it's a good thing for the "hyperpower" to now and then "pick up some small, crappy little country and throw it against the wall" just to put the fear of you-know-who into the others; and some cronies would make some nice bank on the affair. Suppose you realized that you could get the popular support you needed if you could make it seem that Iraq had a connection to "9/11".

 

Suppose after thinking about all this you concluded that if you rounded up a bunch of ne'er-do-wells and radicals and tortured them enough, you could get a few to "confess" to what you needed to have some say in order to justify what you meant to do anyway. You know what I mean, stuff like that Saddam Hussein had WMDs, or trained al Quaida terrorists, or hated us for our freedoms; whatever.

 

It didn't work, but you gave it the old college try, over and over, year after year. Killed a few in the process; prompted a few despairing suicides; in short, you really sh*t on yourself, big time.

 

NOW, SUPPOSE 10 years later you find yourself with 166 captives who, if let back into the world, will spill the beans...

 

I suppose you would just do your best to make up "arguments" for holding them indefinitely, maybe?

 

I'm just speculating here, you understand. But it sure is hard to make sense any other way of this ludicrous, "There's no evidence on which to charge them with anything, but we don't dare let them go" thing...

 

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."

-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

 

 

SPOTLIGHT on ACTIVISM

 

CtC Warrior David Sides says, "Bumper stickers?  Nice, but NOT BIG ENOUGH!"

 

(By the way, Dave's got it precisely right-- If you want your power to be secure, your neighbors have to be empowered with the same knowledge that you've acquired.  Click here for ideas about spreading the truth-- which include normal bumper stickers available for free, by the way....)

 

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At a rally outside the Alamo

 

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CtC Warrior Brian H. in Alaska has a great INDOOR approach to spreading the transformational truth. Here's Brian's desk at his workplace:

 

 

You notice the big glass container to the right of the CtC? Tasty freebies for Brian's co-workers-- candy and brain-candy all in one:

 

 

Very sweet!

 

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More Than Two Thirds Of The Several States That Collect "Income" Taxes Have Now Acknowledged The Truth About The Law As Revealed In CtC, And Have Issued Complete Refunds Accordingly!  See The Following Chart...

 

 

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 15- In 1252, Pope Innocent IV authorizes the torture of accused heretics in order to secure confessions and information about others.  In 1776, the Virginia Convention declares the colony's independence from Great Britain, and instructs its delegation to the Continental Congress to propose a joint declaration on behalf of all of the American colonies.  In 1862, the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture is created.  In 1911, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be too successful and orders its breakup under the auspices of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.  In 1940, the first McDonald's restaurant opens.  In 1948, Egypt, Transjordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia attack the Jewish partisans who had just seized control of Palestine the day before the intended partitioning of that territory into equally-sized Jewish and Arab Palestinian states under a UN mandate intended to peacefully provide for a Jewish homeland.

 

 

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'The BOSTONIAN'S Paying the EXCISE-MAN, or TARRING & FEATHERING' (1774)

(How our forefathers responded to arrogant "Rule of Law defiers"...)

 

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“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”

-Arthur Schopenhauer

 

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If You're Not Standing Up, Then You're Standing Down

..and "standing down" means "going down"

 

MY FRIENDS, IT IS MY SINCERE BELIEF that this community of activists has been encouraged, inspired, enlightened and expanded over the years by the steady posting here of your ongoing victories on behalf of the rule of law. Certainly, it has been my pride and my joy to help you share with the world your honorable testament to the liberating truth about the tax, widespread knowledge of which is so critical to the well-being of ourselves, our children, and our beloved America.

 

However, unless YOU send those victories I can't post them. Unless YOU stand up, your courage and commitment can't inspire anyone.

 

YOU WILL RECALL THAT FOR THE LAST YEAR OR SO I've been telling you that we are in a transformational moment. Look around at what is going on today and recognize the truth of what I say.

 

More than half the American population views the state as a threat. As mainstream a publication as Forbes magazine is posting articles about massive DHS ammunition and armored vehicle purchases.

 

The LA Times, NY Times, Washington Times and other mainstream organs are editorializing about Leviathan having grown too big, and gotten dangerously out-of-hand (see stories at each of the preceding links). Rand Paul's filibuster denouncing the lawlessness of Mordor-on-the-Potomac has prompted a major buzz across the country.

 

Concurrently, this CtC community has been winning legal victories and refunds which are ever-more significant and telling. Consider, for instance, the half-dozen victories won during the last twelve months which qualified for the EWWBL collection (starting with episode 39). Every one of these is an especially illuminating acknowledgement of the truth about the tax, and included in this handful is a very significant two-time victory in a federal district court.

 

Things are happening!

 

HOW IT ALL SHAKES OUT is still up for grabs, though. This is not the time for either complacency or paralysis, because both of those don't amount to "doing nothing"-- instead they amount to "standing down". And standing down means conceding the fight, letting all these eleventh-hour sparks of light burn out unnurtured and the moment be a transformation for the worse.

 

This is not the time for standing down. This is the time for a FULL-COURT PRESS.

 

This is the time for educated American grown-ups to stand up tall and firm, pulling others to their feet by their very gravity. This is the time for leading the way.

 

STAND UP! SEND THOSE VICTORIES-- the new ones, and those of the last few years as well. Click here to learn how. Even if you don't have checks to scan, send your testimonials. Learn how to do that here.

 

 

 

The Willingness Of Some People To Trade Liberty For Convenience Is Without Limit

Some Observations About Current Political Efforts To Evade The Truth, Such As The "Fair Tax" Scheme

 

Regarding "Tax Reform"

 

"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes."

-Thomas Paine

 

Where To Find Things On This Site

 

Law Professor James Duane Says: "Don't Talk To The Police.  Period."

 

Honest Cops Agree...

 

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Warrior David Larson shares this beautiful little farce, wryly observing that, "Depositors have "..not lost one penny.." - OK we could agree on that simple statement  ..how about the purchasing power of that same penny 'not lost'?"

 

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

REGARDING MONEY

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 16- In 1866, Charles Hires invents root beer.  In 1918, Congress passes the Sedition Act, criminalizing criticism of the federal government.  In 1969, the Soviet probe Venera 5 lands on Venus.

 

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Last Word

 

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

-Samuel Adams, Architect of the First American Revolution

 

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About The Author

 

Pete Hendrickson enjoys the distinction of being the first American in history to secure a complete refund of Social Security and Medicare ‘contributions’ withheld from his earnings (along with all other property taken for federal taxes).  He is far from the last, though-- readers of his seminal work, ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’  and its just-published sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?', have been doing the same ever since the book first appeared in 2003.

 

Hendrickson is also a widely-read essayist on matters of politics, public policy and law; many of these works are collected in his second book, ‘Upholding the Law And Other Observations’.  He is a member of Mensa; an award-winning artist; and has paid his dues as a youth soccer coach.  He is a long-time political activist as well, and has served as co-chair and platform convention delegate of Michigan’s largest county Libertarian Party organization; as a consultant to the National Right to Work Foundation and Citizens for a Sound Economy; as a member of the Heartland Institute; and as a member of the International Society for Individual Liberty.  He is a frequent radio-show guest on stations across the country.

 

Hendrickson's business career has included nearly a decade-and-a-half at the leading edge of the renewable-energy industry, both as Director of Purchasing and Materials Management and member of the R&D board at Starpak Energy Systems, the mid-west's then-largest solar heating and energy-recovery-and re-utilization company; and as founder and president of AFJ Inc., a high-efficiency lighting design, manufacture and installation firm.

 

Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing for the twelve years before his present full-time focus on the restoration of the rule of law in America, Hendrickson directed purchasing activities for the $84 million-a-year multi-family-housing division of the Farmington Hills, Michigan branch of Edward Rose and Sons, with responsibility for 18,000+ apartments, direct supervision of 35 technicians and agents, and incidental authority over several hundred divisional workers.  He also ran the division's 10 cable television earth-station and distribution systems in four states, and designed and administered the company's website.

 

On rather the other end of the spectrum, amidst these more mundane pursuits Hendrickson co-founded and was the primary creative force behind a small board- and card-game company that enjoyed a modest success for several years.

 

 Hendrickson makes his home in southeast Michigan, with his wife and two children.  He is currently working on his next book.

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