"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….."
Btw, a copy of
CtC from anywhere except the link above may not
be a current edition. CHECK. It matters. Also, there
ARE no e-book, Kindle or .pdf versions of
CtC. Don't get taken in by efforts to sell you--
or even give you for free-- any such thing.
***
Another Welcome Indicator (Of
The Collapse Of The Scheme)
A remarkable story recently shared with
me by a long-time warrior tells more than just the
tale of some dramatic victories.
LAST WEEK I LED OFF THE JANUARY 8, 2018 NEWSLETTER with
an unexpected indicator of the ongoing (and
accelerating) collapse of the "ignorance tax" scheme
at the hands of the revelations of
CtC. In that case
it was
CtC's revelation of the significance and
effect of statutory definitions given to what
otherwise appear to be common words, and the sudden
recognition of the issue by Cornell's Legal
Information Institute.
The deployment of "words of art" is
itself no great revelation, of course-- every legal
scholar and most practitioners understand the
concept perfectly well. But perhaps due to a
concerted effort by beneficiaries of
misunderstanding, few, I have come to realize, really
grasp the scope of this practice or its true import.
Fewer still are scrupulous in making proper use
of their understanding.
Though I may be all wet, I believe that
it has been
CtC's dramatic exposure of the systemic
80-year misapplication of the income tax-- largely
by exploitation of words of art-- that has brought
this subject to proper recognition, as illustrated
by Cornell's sudden epiphany. In any event, the
effect of Cornell's new policy will surely hasten
the collapse of the "ignorance tax" scam, whatever
lay behind it.
TODAY I'M PLEASED TO SHARE a different
kind of indicator. Everyone in the
CtC community
will immediately understand its significance, and
everyone not yet in that community will find
impossible to misunderstand.
Every
EWWBL
episode is especially revealing of the truth about
the tax (and especially debunking of all efforts to
deny that truth). But these newly-posted victories by
an American hero, totaling $184,749.65 and involving almost a
decade of tax agency resistance, are remarkable even
within that remarkable collection.
Here is the story (docs are
linked throughout, either in the text or from
images):
ON APRIL 15, 2009, David H. filed a
perfectly normal
CtC-educated return. David is a
contractor, and has no withholdings to reclaim.
However, some of those paying David are ignorant of the true
character of the tax and/or of the purpose and
effect of "information returns". These folks produce
and submit "1099-MISCs" making tax-related
allegations about payments David receives, which
David is therefore compelled to rebut lest they be
taken as evidence of the conduct of taxable
activities and consequent liabilities for tax.
As can be seen in
David's return, he had several such 1099s to address
in regard to 2008. In each such case, David
testified that none of the payments he received from
the issuers of these forms actually related to any
taxable activity, and all told, he ends up with a
return reporting $0 "income" and nothing owing in
tax.
Nothing extraordinary here. But the
1099s David rebutted had alleged a total of more
than $280,000 worth of taxable activities during
2008.
In January of 2010 some bad apple at the IRS
going by the label "W. Brown" ("Wanda", as we are
later given to understand) decided to
try confusing, browbeating or intimidating David
into reversing himself. Ms. Brown sent
David
a "CP2501", inviting him to agree that $280,916 of
his earnings were from taxable activities, upon
which the agency would calculate a tax for him and
send him a bill:
NONETHELESS, THE UNUSUALLY PERSISTENT
MS. BROWN figured she might as well try again (after
all, she isn't spending her own money on these ventures...).
Brown's next effort took an unfriendly turn, as she
hunkered back into what really is more natural for junk-yard dogs--
growly threats. This time the proposal
included a tax calculation (of $82,666.00) plus
another $20,649 in penalties and interest, in the
form of a CP2000:
Normally, even in a case in which the
tax agency goes so far as to take a flutter on a
"proposed change" ploy, once firmly slapped down,
that ends the matter. Many examples can be seen
throughout the
EWWBL and
Victory Highlights collections.
FOR SOME PERVERSE REASON, THOUGH, the
"Brown" bad apple handling David's case hadn't seen the
memo. On June 07, 2010, yet another CP2000
addressed to David over his 2008 filing disgraced
the U.S. Mail, with a slightly plumped interest
amount, but otherwise the same as the previous
version:
Unbelievable! But this persistence is
what makes this such a great story. Keep reading...
ONCE AGAIN OUR intrepid hero David
gave his sling a whirl (though doubtless with
some considerable impatience this time. But the
hungry "Brown" just wouldn't go away. Instead she
doubled-down (thus setting herself and her agency up for an even
bigger tumble) with a "LTR3219 (Notice of
Deficiency) on August 30, 2010:
Again David shot out
a response, with restraint now truly remarkable,
all things considered (and with, it must be said,
references to "assessments" and "levy" that are
unnecessary at this point, but considering the
incoherence of the bad apple's behavior, some
confusion can be forgiven).
This time, David's refusal to be
intimidated appears to have brought "Brown's"
incoherence to her attention, and set her back on
her
heels. The next thing sent out from whatever little
federal fortress "W. Brown" lurks in was
a stall request dated November 23, 2010,
more-or-less saying, "Thank you for your
correspondence... we need 60 days to figure out what
to try next... Sorry for any inconvenience...".
60 days passed, then another 60.
Finally, 137 days after the "we need 60 days"
notice, David received the results of all the work
"W. Brown" needed all that time to conduct-- a new
flutter based on a new pretense (which David's
handwritten note points out):
Though different in form, what we have
here is really just another version of the CP2000
"proposals" David had already gotten several times.
This is shown by the "If you agree with the
changes..." language, which goes on to provide
options for expressing disagreement, just as in the
other version of this proposal.
So, 137 days of effort had yielded...
just more of the same, with the rogue tax agent no
further along in either supporting or achieving her
goal of getting her hands on what is now alleged to
a $107,066.76 liability. It looks like even
bad-apple-Brown is very well aware that what she's
been trying to glom onto is not actually a
legitimate liability, doesn't it?
Two and a half months later, the IRS--
now represented by someone calling himself "Paul
Morgan" finally had
an answer for David:
"Thank you for your correspondence... we need 45
days to figure out what to try next... Sorry for any
inconvenience...".
NOW, THIS TIME IT REALLY WAS just about
45 days before the next thing arrived from the IRS
about David's 2008 filing. And this time, the now
unnamed actor at the agency doubled-down yet again.
The new notice is couched as a demand,
and pretends that the issue of David owing the
amount demanded was no longer a "proposal", but
should be imagined to be settled. (Which is, let's
remember, the IRS's whole meme, right? David earned
money, so he must owe a tax, right?! What were they
thinking of with all this "proposal" stuff
before...):
But... at the same time the agency
couldn't quite play it this way without a little
safety valve admission-- again, now, from "Wanda
Brown". On August 26, 11 days after Paul Morgan's
demand, Ms. Brown sends the, "if you disagree" part
of the package:
On September 19, another notice
arrives, this one a bold-face threat:
On September 22, 2011, David sent
his reply. As is seen, at this point David
appears to have lost patience, and does a little
"reading of the riot act" to the persistent
parasites who have now been harassing him for nearly
two years over a bogus claim their own consistent
actions prove even they don't consider legitimate.
ON NOVEMBER 8, 2011, the whole thing
descends into comedy. Suddenly David receives a
letter described as a "follow-up" to an earlier
letter purportedly sent to him more than two years
ago, on September 27, 2009:
And guess what? Here again we have that
"If you disagree" safety valve function, dropping
things back into "proposal" status...
DOUBTLESS THOROUGHLY SICK OF THE WHOLE
CHARADE BY NOW, David didn't even bother to reply
until April of the next year, now 2012. After the
lengthy cooling down period, David was again
restrained in
his reply (note: the date David gives to the
November 8, 2011 letter is misstated as being a 2012
date).
Taking its cue from David (but really
just because it was still simply struggling to think
of ways to keep its pestering alive), the IRS then
sat out for seven months, before sending another
threat letter (its usual go-to solution when its got
no actual legal cards in its hand...). This one
purported to be a
"Final Notice Of Intent To Levy" and notice of
David's right to a hearing (over what it now claims
to be a $127,318.78 liability).
On November 30,
David shoots out a response (now more
appropriately addressing the issues of "assessment"
and "levy").
And again the seasons change...
Seven more months go by, and then, on
June 7, 2013, David receives what purports to be a
reply to his "correspondence received June 05, 2012"
(a year earlier). No clue is given as to what this
mystery correspondence is supposed to have been, but
whatever it supposedly was,
the IRS says it was FRIVOLOUS!!! (which would be
a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black,
if David had ever actually done anything
frivolous...).
David didn't even bother to reply to
this nonsense about a fictitious "correspondence".
SO, FOLLOWING ALL THE FOREGOING, we
have three years of
silence from the agency about David's
purported liability for 2008, taking us to May of
2016-- more than 7 years after David's return was
filed. Suddenly, on May 16, 2016, David gets an
"Annual reminder of overdue taxes for 2008", now
alleging a $147,334.65 liability:
Can you imagine David's reaction? His
weary and disdainful sigh must have been audible
throughout his whole neighborhood.
Two weeks later, David
sent off a response to this latest nonsense,
this time getting right down into some legal
details. Apparently, whoever received David's answer
had to chew on it for awhile, because it wasn't
until September 23, some 113 days later, that David
received his reply, which was... wait for it...
a request for more time to respond.
That 30 days of additional time asked
for by the agency on September 23, 2016 has now
stretched to 479. I say put a fork into it.
WE ARE NOW MORE THAN 8 years since the
IRS
first began troubling David with a "proposal" to assert
taxable activities and a corresponding liability for
2008. We are almost 9 years since the filing of
David's return establishing the contrary.
Throughout, we have seen a vigorous,
sustained effort by the IRS to browbeat, confuse and
intimidate David into reversing himself and
authorizing the taking of his money. All without
success, and without a dime leaving David's hand.
I can't think of a more vivid
demonstration of the truth about the tax and about
the manner by which its misapplication is
accomplished when the target of the scamsters lacks
a
CtC education. Well done, David!
But, WATCH OUT FOR THAT ROBOT!! I THINK
IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE!!
***
BTW, THOSE WHO READ THROUGH all the
documents posted in the tale told above will have
noticed David referencing his 2010 filing in one of
his responses to the mounting nonsense about 2008.
That little sidebar event definitely merits a few
words as well, since it puts a nice accent on the
proper take-away from the 2008 farce.
Happily, 2010 was a simple affair of
which numerous examples can be found on the
EWWBL
pages and in the
Victory Highlights-- a "proposed
increase", quickly shut down with a simple "No".
Here is the filing, which was met 16 months
later, on August 13, 2012, with this:
David-- who the IRS was, remember,
vigorously harassing over his 2008 filing-- shot off
a simple one page response, with a "No!"
indicator on the IRS form, as instructed.
Approximately 90 days later, David got
his proper response and acknowledgement:
A pity the IRS didn't just face the
facts as readily in regard to David's 2008 filing.
Think of all the public resources that could have
been saved (and all the postage that David could
have saved).
“Cowardice asks the question: is it
safe? Expediency asks the question: is it
political? 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 political, nor
popular – but one must take it simply because it is
right.”
Is Trump The Most
Frightening President Ever? Not Hardly...
Spare us from ignorance in the
commentariat.
I CAME ACROSS A TRULY STARTLING
assertion the other day, while reading
this piece by Peter Maas of The Intercept on the
inordinate influence of nutcase Rupert Murdoch on
Donald J. Trump. Maas opens his piece with this
(emphasis added):
For quite a while, there has been a
bull market in stories about Steve Bannon calling
the shots in the incorrigible tangle of neurons that
passes for Donald Trump’s brain. Michael Wolff’s new
book about the dysfunctional White House, “Fire and
Fury,” adds a marvelous coda to this narrative, with
Bannon, in his waning days in the West Wing,
telling the insane truth about the most ridiculous
and frightening presidency ever.
Please! To pick just one of the many
examples illustrative of the absurdity of this
comment, is it possible that Maas has never heard of
Harry Truman? Compared to Harry the Hatter, the
Donald is a model of probity and restraint.
Truman, a small-town haberdasher
in his more-than-modest business experience, saddled
America with the CIA, the NSA, and the Cold War. He
is the only person in history to actually vaporize
people with nuclear weapons (and with no military
reason, but just to intimidate the Soviet Union--
Japan had been trying desperately to surrender long
before the gratuitous bombings of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki, and the repeated firebombing of Japanese
cities by an American military with unchallenged
control of the skies at that point actually did more
damage several times over than even the two
atom-bomb drops).
Truman is the president who
argued that private-sector steelworkers could be
enslaved to their jobs in the name of national
security. He's the guy who facilitated the
establishment and recognition of Israel after the
violent expropriation of Palestinians' land by
Jewish immigrants in defiance of a settled
United Nations plan of partition which provided for
a two state outcome (see
this history and
this very prescient CIA report).
Truman is the scofflaw who began the
"We don't need no stinkin' Congressional
declarations of war!" oath-breaking with his
unilaterally-authorized "police action" of
carpet-bombing North Korea (and getting 128,650
Americans wounded or killed). I could go on, but I
think this covers "frightening" pretty well... and
this is just one example.
I guess I can believe that Maas just
sat out the day in American History class when
Truman was covered. But did he also skip school the
day that Woodrow Wilson was discussed?
How about McKinley? Or Polk? Or Grant?
Or Lincoln? Or FDR? Or Johnson? Or Nixon?
THAT DONALD TRUMP is bombastic and
generally ill-informed, if not outright ignorant and
misguided is undeniable. And he is disturbingly
malleable in the hands of the neo-con
swamp-creatures amongst which he now finds himself.
But while Trump has been disappointing
for not yet having done much of the good an optimist
might have expected from his campaign rhetoric-- and
has disappointingly become a participant in much of
his predecessors' ongoing evil deeds-- he has yet to
initiate a great deal of his own evil, however much
he blusters about doing so. And maybe he never will
(though his sustained bellicosity toward Iran-- a
good summation of accurate information and
perspective about which has been offered by Eric
Margolis
here-- unfortunately suggests otherwise).
Other presidents are already proven
malefactors, as in the case of Truman, as outlined
above, and others mentioned, as well. Trump is no
Thomas Jefferson or Grover Cleveland. But while his
scorecard remains open to possible black marks in
the future, at this point its crazy-talk to call him
"the most ridiculous and frightening president
ever."
***
BTW, AS LONG AS WE'RE ON THE SUBJECT of
ridiculous and frightening presidents (and political
figures in general), I'll take the opportunity to
remind (or inform) Peter Maas (and everyone else)
that there is no solution in complaining about them.
Clutching one's pearls in dismay, hoping for a white
knight to come along and fix things, DOES NOTHING
(and
there will be no "white knight").
The only way for the people to be
secure against corrupt political institutions is for
the people themselves-- in their individual
capacities (that being the capacity outside the
political institutions) to withhold operating
resources from those institutions. This is the
Founders' plan, and it is the People's right and
responsibility, as well as their only remedy short
of violent revolution in the face of corrupt
institutions of government which will not police
themselves.
Now having finished Smith's excellent
observations, tell me: Aren't you
HUGELY GLAD that
you are no longer sending your hard-earned resources
to immoral sociopaths of the sort Smith describes
and explains, like you used to do? Aren't you
HUGELY GLAD that
the Founders had the insight to provide you with
their solution to a government filled with immoral
sociopaths?
OOr, if you're NOT yet
CtC-educated and activated, don't you now think
it's time you were?
A simple way for everyone to get a lot
done, fast, that no one is doing.
SO, A MONTH AGO I posted the following
on this page (and it has remained here ever since):
IF EVERY STATE GROUP (or anyone else) were
to devote some time and effort
to scheduling and hosting presentations of
this video to CPA and legal firms, a whole lot of
good could be done in a very short order.
The requirements are simple. Book an hour
with the chosen firm, with the understanding that all
professional staff will be assembled for the presentation.
A thoughtful introduction should make this inexpensive
and easy.
Explain that all you are asking for is
an opportunity to show a video in which some facts about
the income tax are revealed on the basis of which tens
of thousands of Americans have recovered $billions from
the IRS and three dozen state tax agencies over the
course of more than 14 years now, by way of a quarter
of a million claims made with the tax agencies, and
even in the face of agency resistance of several different
kinds.
SOME FIRMS MAY SHOO YOU AWAY, certainly.
But some will not.
Arrive at the appointed hour in a group,
dressed business casual or better and groomed for church.
Have your most articulate, persuasive speaker take the
lead, but all be alert and attentive, sending out a
calm, confident and positive vibe.
Understand and communicate with your demeanor
that you are not there to debate anything. Rather, you
are there to show these folks things they don't know,
and need to know.
Bring a big monitor, speakers and a laptop
with which you can access the video. Rehearse and be
able to make your connections and be up and running
in moments with no fuss.
Play the video. Hand out printed copies
of
this document to everyone in attendance. Thank your
audience for their time and attention, and take your
leave.
When out of sight, clap each other on the
back for an important job well done and head out for
your next appointment (or to a nice group meal to celebrate,
compare notes and plan your next activist outing).
NOW, I DON'T THINK ANYONE CAN SAY that
this program is too difficult. And I can't imagine
that anyone would argue that there is no chance of
some serious good being done if any given individual
or group in a "tax profession" saw that video and
read that document.
But I haven't heard from ONE person
that has undertaken to do this.
I hear from all of you all the time
telling me about how hard it is to get through to
the people you try to introduce to CtC's liberating,
republic-restoring revelations. So I go to the
trouble of writing wake-up paper after wake-up
paper.
I even do a power-point of a
seriously-revealing, seriously comprehensive but
still short and accessible compilation and arrange
to be filmed presenting it, so that YOU will have it
as a tool for the kind of activism I explain in the
simplest, most "Insert tab "A" into slot "B"..."
fashion. And what happens?
Nothing.
It's a shame. You can't score the goal
if you don't take the shot, my friends.
"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."
CtC-Educated Victories For The Rule Of Law #s 265,001,
265,002, 265,003 and 265,004*-- Each More
Illuminating Than The Last!
The biggest secret of the 21st Century
continues to get bigger, but astonishingly continues
to be a secret.
GLENN T. shares his October 26, 2017 federal victory
for 2015, overcoming a cheap, very belated IRS
effort to "change" his return and intimidate him
into backing down and resuming his
copper-top pod. Here's the uplifting story:
Glenn filed his federal 1040 for 2015
back in February of 2016, showing no "income" and
nothing withheld. See it
here.
On May 30 of 2017, some brownie-pointer
at the IRS fired off a CP2000 proposing that Glenn
agree that his earnings for 2015 really had
qualified as tax-relevant "income", and proposing a
tax due for the year of $1,432.00 (w/interest to
date):
Here is the proposal with the specific IRS
"income" allegations, made on the second page.
Glenn, good and properly CtC-educated
American that his is, wasn't having any of it. He
promptly fired off
a simple, clear "Sorry, Charlie..." A month
later, the flummoxed IRS opportunist sent a
stall letter. Two months after that, the white
flag got waved:
VINCENT & SHELLY T. have been
practically living on this page lately, posting
victory after victory! Today we celebrate their New
Jersey victory for 2015, won after a long battle
with the state DOR.
This story starts with Vincent &
Shelly's April 17, 2016
CtC-educated NJ-1040, begun with a very
clear statement of what is included, and why, and
claiming a complete refund of the $2780.00 withheld
during 2015 and put into escrow with New Jersey
(plus a $50 property tax credit). See that filing
here.
New Jersey, however, chose to be hard
of hearing:
Vincent & Shelly stood firm, making a
prompt, straightforward response, followed
by another after politely waiting several months
with nothing but
crickets from the NJDOR. See those responses
here.
Doubtless blowing steam from all four
ears by now, Vincent & Shelly replied yet again, but
this time taking a different tack. This time Vincent
& Shelly addressed the state's sustained balkiness
with a New Jersey 1040X, containing the same
information as their original return, other than
acknowledging the partial refund from the original
return, and accompanied this time by
carefully-explained and modified representations of
W-2s created by the withholding payers who had sent
their property to the state. See that response
here.
Finally the state got the message that
it was not going to win this one, and threw in the
towel, refunding Vincent & Shelly's money in full
(but denying them the $50 property tax credit they
had claimed, which probably had been mistakenly
claimed considering that no credit can be taken
against no tax owed...):
Yes, this ended up as a off-set rather
than a check, but it's a full refund ending up on
Vincent & Shelly's side of the balance sheet,
nonetheless.
BRIAN HARRISS has won a complete
victory with Georgia over his 2016 withholdings, and
did so with an inspiringly hard-eyed approach to the
whole situation that many will find to be very
educational. This tale begins with
Brian's application for a filing extension with
the state, on which he explains that he needs time
to address fraud on the part of the creators of a
W-2 which his filing will be obliged to rebut.
In due course, Brian followed up with
a letter to the company which had created the
erroneous W-2 about him and sent it to Georgia,
on which it alleged that Brian had been paid for the
conduct of taxable activities. In his letter Brian
demanded to know the basis for that characterization
of those payments. (This letter was purely pro
forma
Brian had asked these same questions before and had
gotten nothing but an increasingly frosty silence
with each inquiry.)
At the same time he sent his pro
forma letter, Brian submitted his return to
Georgia demanding back everything that had been
improperly withheld by that erroneous W-2 creator.
Brian also sent a formal notice to the Georgia DOR
explaining the fraud. See the notice
here, and Brian's return
here.
Georgia understood. On November 6, it
issued its agreement with Brian's claim, right to
the penny:
GREGORY & FABIOLA K. wind up this
little batch of new victory posts with a complete
refund of everything withheld from them during
2016-- all of which was Social security and Medicare
tax withholdings-- and an admission by the federal
government, dated today (December 4, 2017), that
they received $0 "income" and owed $0 tax on their
considerable earnings last year. Not a bad start to
the holiday season!
Gregory & Fabiola's victory might sound
a bit mundane among the
CtC
community. That is, while a complete tax refund,
FICA and all, is still jaw-droppingly extraordinary
in the "ignorance tax" paradigm still suffered by
most Americans, it is, on its face, a
commonplace among those who have learned the truth
about the tax.
But even commonplace outcomes can still
offer special opportunities for helping shake awake
those in that "ignorance tax" "copper-top" paradigm,
and that's absolutely the case here.
For one thing, Gregory is a medical
service provider, and so has 1099 "information
returns" to rebut-- lots of them. With this filing,
Gregory had 26 such erroneous allegations to
address, as part of a return showing ZERO "income".
Further, as mentioned, the only
withholding that Gregory and Fabiola had to reclaim
(and got refunded) was all FICA surtax withholding
(from one day of work by Fabiola)-- the stuff no one
but the
CtC-educated have ever had returned to them
(and which was reclaimed by use of a from 4852
showing that withholding and reporting $0 associated
"wages").
Further still, in this filing Gregory &
Fabiola had to rebut erroneous K-1 allegations of
taxable gains made about each of their three
children. And finally, all of this filing concerning
2016-- with all its agency attention-catching
features-- was made in a context of a large-scale
ongoing IRS collections process against Gregory &
Fabiola arising from things done years prior to
becoming
CtC-educated.
In short, this victory in invoking,
upholding and enforcing the law by Gregory & Fabiola
is a poster-child-grade demonstration of the truth
about the tax exclusively revealed in 'Cracking
the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In
America'. It is impossible to mistake for
anything else.
This victory is all that should be
necessary to compel even the most
idiotically-stubborn skeptic to acknowledge the
truth. (I am a bit harsh here because after all,
Gregory & Fabiola's is somewhere around
the 265,000th
CtC-educated victory over the last 14 years,
many of which are even more glaringly unmistakable
in their revelations and implications. In the face
of these facts, persistent skepticism or
vulnerability to
government lies really is idiotic.)
So,
here is the filing involved in Gregory & Fabiola's
December 4, 2017 federal victory for 2016. And
here is the United States admission that as little
as it is, every penny that had been withheld from
Gregory & Fabiola was an overpayment (because there
was no tax due) and their complete refund (even
though only in the form of a credit against an
IRS-claimed balance-owing for 2009):
BTW, Gregory estimates that had his
filing been done by an "ignorance tax" victim, it
would have ended up not as a $14 refund, but as at
least a $10,000 payment, instead. Further, an outgo
that small would only have been achieved after
achingly-long hours of poring over paperwork,
obscure tax code sections and rules, and all the
rest of the huge expenditure of lost time and energy
still unnecessarily-suffered by far too many
Americans (instead of the hour or so involved in
preparing this simple, educated return package).
SO, HATS OFF to Glenn, Vincent &
Shelly, Brian, and Gregory & Fabiola!
These good Americans have all stepped up
and acted to restrain the dangerous and corrupt state
and uphold the rule of law, something desperately needed
from everyone.
Glenn's, Vincent and Shelly's, Brian's
and Gregory and Fabiola's victories join those of the tens of thousands of other
awakened and activated Americans represented
here, and constitute more critical steps toward
the restoration of
the Founders republic and the true rule of law.
Don't you wish your victories were proudly
posted, too?
*I don't really know the exact numbers
of these latest posted victories, only that they are
likely to be at a minimum somewhere in the neighborhood
indicated, and actually likely to be a good deal higher.
See
this for the calculation factors, which you can
apply for yourself.
I assign the numbers as I do in the title
of this post in order to make a point-- whatever the
exact numbers are, they are enormously large, and represent
a hugely important and utterly unique sustained series
of events in American history. And yet, the vast majority
of Americans KNOW NOTHING WHATEVER ABOUT IT.
How can this be? Doesn't ANYONE reading
these newsletters and familiar with these events know
a journalist?
The degree to which this all goes unremarked
just boggles the mind. I hope and pray that this silence,
this muffling of the liberating truth, ends soon, and
I ask any of you that can help to please do so.
DON DON LA VIGNE, a long-time warrior
and real American grown-up, shares a nice and inspiring
testimonial on what
CtC has done for him for over nine years now:
CAN CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE how abysmally
stupid someone would have to be to continue to doubt
or deny that
CtC has revealed the actual, complete and insurmountable
truth about the income tax in light of the overwhelming
mountain of
historical,
legal,
practical and
logical evidence to the contrary? (Not to mention
the
outright lies and even
ludicrous hoaxes the executive and some corrupt
members of the judiciary have been caught at in desperate
efforts to conceal the truth...)
Plainly any such denier must either be
abysmally stupid or be an abysmally corrupt government
official or other person who sees him or herself as
benefitting from the lies about the tax by which America
has suffered for 75 years now.
Isn't this true?
I HOI HOPE NOBODY OUT THERE is tolerating
a single
CtC denier anywhere within the "tax honesty" or
"activist" communities. Such people-- and they are definitely
out there, flogging their pet
tin-foil-hat theories-- are the millstone around
the neck of the rest of us, keeping the truth about
the tax from getting the audience it needs in order
to bring about the transformation of the American landscape
which it is uniquely capable of doing.
Nor should anyone be tolerating denial,
either implicit or explicit, by any lawyer, accountant,
journalist, judge, elected official or bureaucrat. "Denial"
by any of these types is collusion and corruption, or
rank cowardice at best.
MORE, DENIAL OF THE OBVIOUS AND STATE-RESTRAINING
TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX might have a sinister aspect, as
well. The State, whose growth and power are made possible
by the lies about the tax which the deniers enable,
is the mechanism by which some exercise control over
others through the application (or credible threat)
of violence.
The bulked-up State, in short, is the means
by which some rule others. The larger the State, the
more successfully it rules, and the more easily it can
brush aside or overpower Constitutionally-based objections
to its edicts, exploitations and abuses.
I don't personally imagine a long-running,
deliberate and closely-controlled effort to subjugate
the American people. I discuss this in the "Interlude"
portion of
CtC, as many of you will recall, where I argue instead
that the only large-scale and long-running "conspiracy"
in America is a soft one-- a coincidental conspiracy
of interests.
In my view America suffers from Adam Smith's
"invisible hand" in reverse: the evil effect of many
individuals unwisely entrusted with too much power who,
in using it to look out for their own interests individually,
work a massive harm to society.
But the growth of the State unquestionably
serves to create the tool by which deliberate subjugation
could be accomplished. Indeed, the overgrown State made
uniquely possible by the misapplication of the income
tax is the ONLY means by which the American people could
be subjugated.
And who knows? Maybe I'm wrong in my view,
and those seeing a darker picture are right.
Warrior Rick Van Camp recently shared with
me a few words from that darker perspective which ends
with a key point that is just as cogent whether you
see Leviathan growing among us for the one reason or
the other:
In 1913 Woodrow Wilson stated:
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s
views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest
men in the United States, in the Field of commerce and
manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that
there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle,
so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive,
that they better not speak above their breath when they
speak in condemnation of it.”
And this continues today. When
opportunistic liars like Al Gore can make hundreds of
millions from outright lies and manipulation of Science
while producing a "carbon footprint" of at least 100
people, when a treasonous dog like Obama can plot the
overthrow of an elected President in Public and get
away with it without a whimper from the so-called Press,
or the Congress; when tens of millions of "Americans"
can vote for a continuation of nanny-state entitlements
while allowing their children to be indoctrinated by
those who would continue them as children, when a once-proud
and independent people submit reflexively to a militarized
State army of (now armed) bureaucratic functionaries
who grope their women and young daughters in airports
and soon bus and train stations, invade their homes
on the slightest pretext (more than 50,000 SWAT raids
last year) and terrorize, injure and sometimes murder
innocents...
That organized, subtle and
watchful power is HERE, among us, and in your face.
And YOU pay for it.
YOU PAY FOR IT. That's the big point.
If you're a
CtC denier, it doesn't matter whether what's going
on is grayish or pitch-black-- either way, YOU'RE PAYING
FOR IT.
I don't mean, "You're paying the price,
sweetie". I mean YOU ARE PERSONALLY FINANCING WHAT IS
BEING DONE TO YOU AND TO YOUR CHILDREN AND TO THIS WONDERFUL
COUNTRY. And you're doing so voluntarily, and in most
cases, simply because you refuse to learn or accept
what
CtC has revealed. In a word, you're daft.
And as for "official" and "professional"
CtC deniers, you're the ones keeping the lie
going to which the daft succumb. There's a word for
that, too. Despicable.
"It is impossible to calculate the moral
mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying
has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted
and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe
his professional belief to things he does not believe
he has prepared himself for the commission of every
other crime."
-Thomas Paine
***
LITTLE BIT OF A P. S. on this article:
I have to cut a pass to a lot of folks out there not
yet embracing
CtC and acting on its revelations to help transform
America. I'm talking about the huge majority of folks
who have never heard of any of this, or who have only
seen the lies and smears and pretenses of "official"
resistance to
CtC (such as are discussed
here,
here,
here and
here).
These folks effectively serve as weight
on the deniers' side of the scale-- and also finance
the Beast-- because I haven't been able to get my videos
or other liberation information to them. I'm talking
about your Uncle Jerry (or Aunt Sally, or Junior, or
your buddy Sam, or whoever).
I haven't been able to get my liberating
information to these folks because I DON'T KNOW THEM.
I have no contact info, and I wouldn't know the best
way to speak to them, even if I did.
YOU have to speak to these folks, and introduce
and share the material. Think about it. When was the
last time you forwarded one of my videos around to
everyone in your
address book?
Do you not do it because you don't think
your family, friends and acquaintances would be interested?
You're wrong. Last autumn 62,979,879 Americans voted
for Donald Trump in the hope that he would restore the
republic. Plenty of people are interested in freedom
and the rule of law.
In aIn a minute you're going to watch Arron
Reeves' wonderful video on his awakening to the truth
about the tax, and what that means to him. Are you going
to share it as widely as the next Kardashian video will
get shared? I hope so.
It is because that DOESN'T get done that
"official" deniers get away with it. I want you to think
about that.
Do you want to get to where you don't have
to file claims for the return of your property at all,
because it never got diverted in the first place? That
will happen the moment that my videos get a million
viewings in a few weeks like some do, instead of struggling
for a year or more to reach a few thousand. It won't
happen before that.
The "official" deniers can control a slow
burning fire. Our fire has to get vigorous, and
only you can make that happen.
An old joke, but in regard to this deceiver,
not a laughing matter at all.
““When principles that run against your
deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle
is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must,
at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions
bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your
faith.
Looking For A Litigator Who
Wants To Do Well While Doing Good
THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENT presents details
of a long-running (and still-ongoing) violation of the
speech, conscience and due-process rights of two Americans.
The offenses, in a nutshell, involve a federal district
court attempting to dictate to these two folks-- word
for word-- sworn "testimony" they are ordered to make
in a legal contest with the government.
Click the link below to read the brief.
You'll find it thoroughly supported with relevant testimony
by the chief perpetrator and other similarly unambiguous
exhibits.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and it never will. Find out just what any
people will quietly submit to and you have the exact
measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed
on them, and these will continue till they have been
resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The
limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of
those whom they suppress."
-Frederick Douglass
"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
*****
Would You Do It?
"A slave is one who waits
for someone to come and free him."
…The US may be
the only country in the world where people working
in the non-federal private sector must commit
perjury in order to owe and pay ‘God’s things
to Caesar’?
If you work in the
private sector, stop falsely swearing that your
private-sector earnings are federal “income”1.
Perjury is a crime. Exercise the law’s
provision for protecting your private-sector
earnings from the 154-year-old2 indirect
excise known as the federal income tax.
Rebut fraudulent allegations made by your payers
regarding the legal nature of your work and
the earnings derived therefrom, so that you
pay only your fair share. Join the hundreds
of thousands of honest, law-abiding Americans
who have been doing so for more than a decade.
Learn how for free at losthorizons.com.
1--“We must reject…
…the broad contention submitted in behalf of
the government that all receipts—everything
that comes in—are income…”.
United States Supreme
Court, So. Pacific v. Lowe, 247 U.S. 330, (1918)
2—The income tax in
the United States was first instituted into
law on July 1, 1862, during Lincoln’s presidency
under the excise laws of the United States.
The preamble to the 1939 Internal Revenue Code
traces its roots to this original income tax
law.
Trolls Against The Truth: A
Dis-Information Campaign
UNLESS YOU'VE LOOKED, you can have no idea
of the volume, intensity and mendacity deployed in the
government's efforts to discourage Americans from learning
what is revealed in
CtC. It's truly astonishing.
A lot of folks are aware of the show-trial
events in which my wife and I have received state-engineered
public beatings meant to scare people away from the
truth about the "ignorance tax" scam. But many are unaware
of the overall campaign. This is a shame, really, because
a focused propaganda effort like this one is a very
powerful acknowledgement of the significance of
CtC's revelations.
While the majority of Americans do not
yet know how
CtC protects them from the vampire state, the vampire
itself certainly does. Dis-information campaigns like
this one make that very clear.
FORMER CBS REPORTER SHERYL ATKISSON describes
some aspects of this sort of dis-information campaign
in the following video. Despite the annoying preliminary
15 seconds or so of advertising, her presentation is
very much worth watching:
(H/T to Greg Belcher for finding
and forwarding this great presentation.)
Losthorizons.com is one of those websites specifically-targeted
by the corrupt interests at Wikipedia described by Atkisson.
The behind-the-scenes folks at that site won't allow
links on their pages to anything posted at
losthorizons.com, nor even just text corrections
of misinformation in their pages about the income tax.
That's the least of it. Click
here for some specific discussion of the enormous
scare campaign that's been actively spreading false
information in hope of discouraging legitimate media
attention, as well as men and women simply seeking the
truth about the tax and liberty from the scourge of
the "ignorance tax".
PLEASE GIVE SOME SERIOUS THOUGHT to the
fact that YOU being secure in your own freedom rests
on others learning the truth as well, and recognize
that it falls to you to help overcome the dis-information
campaign. Post and share
your videos;
share your victories; help silence the agents-provocateur
and distraction-injectors whose nonsense is discussed
and debunked
here; and widely (and frankly, impatiently) share
this page,
this page and
this page, challenging everyone in your address
book to disconnect the phone and the TV for an afternoon
and get educated.
Doing these things will be what makes it
happen, Cap'n.
An Excellent New Video About
The Government Effort To Suppress CtC Has Hit YouTube!
DEREK CUSHMAN HAS POSTED a powerful presentation
on government lies, propaganda and misinformation about
CtC designed to discourage more Americans from reading
the book and getting free of the misadministration of
the tax:
Watch it and share it, folks. This film
will help a lot of people who have been taken in by
the lies understand how they've been manipulated, and
prompt a proper desire to learn the truth about the
tax.
Well done, Derek!
P.S. If there were a thousand videos out
there debunking government lies and encouraging Americans
to learn the truth like this one does, the "ignorance
tax" scheme would collapse in a month. So,
where's yours?
Please Help losthorizons.com
Be As Effective As Possible!
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS I've heard from
a number of folks that a firewall known as "Comodo"
blocks access to this website. This is apparently a
glitch in that program. This site is safe, as can be
seen by going
here.
Please share this info with others in your
own address book so it gets around-- obviously those
suffering the ill effects of this defect in Comodo won't
be able to see it here themselves until they go into
their firewall settings and manually whitelist
losthorizons.com.
MY FRIENDS, THIS NEWSLETTER NEEDS your
creativity, your clear thinking, and your expressive
energy! In short, this newsletter needs your journalism!
I know that writing for public consumption
isn't everyone's cup of tea. But those who CAN string
a few words together can importantly serve the educated,
activist community by writing and submitting thoughtful,
well-researched and persuasive articles on certain topics
for posting on these pages.
Here are several topics for which submissions
are desired:
Why the media is silent about the astonishing
13-years-and-counting history of government acknowledgements
of the accuracy of CtC's revelations and its simultaneous
efforts to keep Americans from knowing about those
revelations.
Why educating more Americans about
the true history and actual provisions of the income
tax is the most important thing that anyone seeking
to restrain the state and restore the republic can
do today.
Why "tax honesty gurus" stay mum about
CtC and its unprecedented accomplishments in freeing
people from improper application of the tax.
Why hunkering down in every-man-for-himself
silence in the face of statist and fascist assaults
on the rule of law leads to greater harm than what
is hunkered-down against; that is, how fearful behavior
just strengthens the thing feared.
How much better it is to encourage
(and practice) bravery, honesty and openness than
to counsel (and succumb to) fear, lies and concealment.
Articles should be 1500 words or less,
with working titles and author's name at the beginning.
Composition should strive for two and three sentence
paragraphs organized in the form of a theme paper. Intend
to persuade and inspire, not browbeat. Format should
be either .doc or .odt. All submissions selected for
posting may be subject to editing.
Submit to the regular (non-encrypted) address
found
here, as an attachment to an email.
In Passing... Three cheers
for Russia, which has stepped up to join Iran
in aid of its long-time ally Syria against the
noxious "Islamic State" nutcases that have sprung
up like toadstools in the wake of the destabilization
of the Middle East by the noxious neocon nutcases
running Washington for the last 15 years.
More Educated Americans Testify,
Showing Why The Deep State Fears CtC
"If the taxpayers of this country ever
discovered that we operate on 98% bluff, the entire
system will collapse."
-Reported remark by an internal revenue
service officer to Sen. Henry E. Bellmon (R. Okla.)
on April 15, 1971.
"The Tax Code represents the genius of
legal fiction... The IRS has never really known
why people pay the income tax... The IRS encourages
voluntary compliance, through FEAR."
-Jack Warren Wade Jr., former IRS officer
in charge of the IRS Nationwide Revenue Officer Training
Program, in his book ‘When You Owe The IRS’
CtC-EDUCATED, AMERICAN HERITAGE-LOVING
grown-up Don La Vigne shares his testimony
here. Tom Romin shares
his testimony
here. Greg Sutton shares his
here. Enjoy Robert Harvey's testimony
here. Don's, Tom's and Greg's and
Robert's words, like those of others that can be found
here, are solid examples of why the Deep State fears
CtC.
It's this simple: If you study
CtC you will know the truth about the tax.
Further, you will know that you know the truth,
beyond any doubt.
ONLY
CtC will give you that certainty, because
CtC is exclusively and uniquely complete and correct,
as can be seen by any of thousands of different acknowledgements
of every possible kind, from
this to
this to
this to
this.
Most telling, in its own way, is the government
robotically resorting for years now to the strawman
of
falsely ascribing to CtC the ridiculous arguments
that "wages are not income" and that only federal, state
and local government workers are subject to the tax.
This false ascription is then used as the basis for
claiming the book is "false and frivolous"-- a lame
and transparent dodge begging the question of why the
state won't acknowledge what the book
REALLY says and then attempt to dispute THAT.
Once you know the truth revealed in
CtC, acting in accordance with that truth WILL liberate
you from being an ignorance tax serf. This, the deep
state fears mightily.
In short, the "ignorance tax" scheme can
only survive if Americans can be bluffed into not seeking
out the truth, and if those who learn that truth can
be discouraged from acting on that truth.
But those who know the truth, and know
they know the truth, cannot not act.
Acting on the truth is a moral imperative,
as well as a legal imperative.
The undaunted actions of those who know
the truth are "calls" against the bluff. Each "call"
ratchets-up the spread of the truth exponentially and
forces state acknowledgement of that truth, one way
or another; and each such acknowledgment takes America
one step closer to
freedom
from the 75-year state-unleashing, people-restraining
"ignorance tax" scheme.
I HAVE DONE MY BEST to lead this country
to liberty from the mis-applied income tax. I have labored
hard. I've shed a lot of sweat, a fair bit of blood
and more than a few tears. But I seem to be pretty poor
at that kind of work.
When I have asked all of you for what I
firmly believe is a necessary resource to move the ball
downfield and give all of us the best chance at justice
and an end to the assault on the rule of law-- simple
testimonial videos requiring nothing from any of you
but the phone in your pocket and three minutes of speaking
from the heart-- I have had only a handful of people
answer my call.
I CAN'T KEEP GOING THIS WAY. I have to
be able to turn my attention away from writing new persuasive
or skepticism-addressing articles week after week, and
toward research, analysis and educational presentations
that will benefit everyone already in this community.
I need time to do some suing, and to bring together
the resources and talent toward that end.
As said, it is my firm belief that your
testimonial videos are the resource that I need to make
big things happen, and they are unquestionably the thing
I need to allow me to turn my attention away from trying
to get horses to drink at the waterhole to which I have
led them. Your words, in your great numbers and all
in your own different ways, will do that better than
anything I write possibly could.
And yet, you are not providing them. This,
despite my having been asking you for them for many
years now.
Therefore, with enormous reluctance, I
am making portions of this website restricted access
only. People have been urging me to do this for years
now, telling me I should impose a charge to access my
work-product, so as to enable me to keep producing.
I have never been inclined to charge fees
for access. I ask for donations, and will continue to
do that, and if they do not come, then I will conclude
that my work is of no value to anyone, and I will close
shop.
But I now WILL charge a special something
for access to some key portions of that work-- testimonial
videos, as discussed, described and demonstrated
here.
SELECTED PAGES CONSTITUTING primarily "legal
resources" pages now require passwords for access, and
to get a password, I need your video. Similarly, if
an email comes my way asking for guidance or assistance,
it had best have a video attached, if I don't already
have yours posted.
I hate to play it this way, but I want
to win.
I'll tell you a story from when I was coaching
my kids in soccer. Both of my kids at a certain age
in their careers had run into a wall common to all but
the very exceptional. They had gotten to be pretty good,
and they wanted to enjoy the benefits of their hard
work. But the arrival of this interest coincided with
a new self-consciousness which made them reluctant to
risk failing and looking foolish. So, they were hanging
back from seizing the main chance when it appeared,
and driving for the goal.
My solution was to post on the wall of
our dining room a couple of simple points about self-discipline,
the chief of which is this: You can't score a goal if
you don't take a shot.
That's how it is here, too. If you don't
stand up, you are laying down, and you'll never score
that goal.
Here is what my kids live by now, in their
own version of that lesson. I hear it from them all
the time as they excel (accompanied by the sound of
a father's breast swelling with pride): Go hard,
or go home.
You, too. Go hard, or go home.
Send those videos.
Do I ask for a lot? I want your victories
to post, your financial support, your efforts at spreading
the word, and your beautiful faces and inspiring words,
too. It IS a lot.
But I'll let Thomas Paine explain:
"Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered;
yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder
the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we
obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly. Heaven knows
how to put a proper price on its goods; and it would
be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom
should not be highly rated.”
We each have our reasons, and our story.
It's time, and it's needed, for you to share yours with
the world.
"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.
Dress "business casual". Be well-groomed.
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. Speak of
CtC, and what its information has done for your
understanding and resolve. Show the book.
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!
If you're in a battle now, speak of your
resolve to uphold the law, come what may. If you haven't
yet begun to act, speak of your decision to do so, and
your plans.
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.
Further, think about this: You want judges,
bureaucrats, CPAs, lawyers, the HR people where you
work, your pastors, your neighbors and everyone else
to acknowledge the truth about the tax openly and straightforwardly.
How and why would these folks do this if YOU won't?
You want these folks to learn the truth.
Why would they even recognize that there is a truth
to be learned if you won't attest to having learned
it yourself? You've got to stand up, face forward and
chin up and tell these folks that you have studied and
checked and verified and seen the evidence and seen
the government evasions and you know that the tax is
not the capitation that the beneficiary government wants
everyone to think it is but a benign, but strictly limited
thing, and that they need to study and learn that, too.
Again, if you have victories to show, that's
nice, and powerful, too. But you don't have to have
victories to display in order to declare your knowledge
of what the law says. I've never flown around the world,
but I've seen the evidence and considered the arguments,
and I'm not hesitant to declare it a sphere...
Even those of you who haven't yet studied
CtC have surely read
this short document, and have verified everything
in it for yourself. You should therefore be declaring
its veracity and its message, loud and proud. Again,
if you won't say it, how can you hope that others will
ever even bother to look at the facts?
Be the change you want to see in the world,
or there won't be any change.
So, please make and send those videos
right away! You can share them with me via a cloud-based
drive space like OneDrive.Live.com or GoogleDrive, or
mail DVDs to me at 232 Oriole St., Commerce Twp., Michigan
48382, or even email to me if each file is no more than
20 megs (and you can break a video up if need be-- I
can reassemble them). Render as .mpg or mp4, if possible;
if not, send them how you have them and I'll make them
work.
Remember, 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 in videos sent over
the years, many of which are posted
here.
"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."
Getting Free Of The "Income" Tax Scheme Is As Easy As
Falling Off A Bike
To get an idea of how today's "income" tax scheme works,
try this little exercise:
Think of the federal government as a guy named Bob,
who lives down the street from you in a town that is
really big on bicycles. Bikes get used for commuting,
deliveries, shopping, etc.. In fact, other than walking,
bicycles are the exclusive form of transportation in
your town.
Your neighbor Bob has a by-the-mile bicycle-renting
business-- "Bob's Bicycles". Bob's Bicycles is far and
away the biggest business in town.
Part of Bob’s success is because he does a lot of contract
business. However, Bob doesn't just get paid by riders
who have signed an agreement with him, or even just
those using Bob's bikes. Bob gets something every time
anybody in town does any riding at all, through an odd
combination of circumstances that took many years to
come together.
Here's how it happened...
Bob's Bicycles was launched long ago by the great grandfather
of the present Bob (Bob IV). Great Grandpa Bob started
out not only with a main location for his contract business--
he also had the bright idea of setting up spots around
town where he parked some of his bikes for use by the
more occasional rider, on an "honor system". Anyone
could take and use one of these bikes, but they were
expected to keep track of their mileage, and send Bob
a "1040 Mileage Ridden/Rent Due Form" (and the appropriate
rent), periodically. The initial design of the form
was like this:
I, ______________,
rode a Bob's Bicycle a total of _____ miles
this year.
At Bob's rental
rate of $.15 per mile, I owe Bob $______
I said that Great Grandpa Bob planned to deal with these
occasional riders on the "honor system", and that's
true. But he liked his money, too, and didn't want to
miss anything that was due him. So, after setting up
the "self-serve" locations, Great Grandpa Bob went around
handing out "W-2, 1099 or K-1 Rider Reporting Forms"
to every other business in town. The forms-- accompanied
by notices that if Bob didn't get his rent from someone
riding a bicycle in connection with any business, he
would sue the company involved-- said:
You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know
What You’re Fighting About
If you are having an argument
with the IRS or any other tax agency,
You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate
profit”.
You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign
income”.
You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion
contract”.
You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject
is never identified.
You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists
that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply--
even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect,
and CAN be corrected.
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!!
"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.”
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.
To comment on any article in this update (or to
read comments of others), click on the
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appear; also, please understand that this is NOT a place
for posing questions about individual tax situations.)
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