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The News Current Events and Continuing Education for March 20 through April 2, 2017 “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
"There are two distinct classes of men...those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes." - Thomas Paine C'mon! CtC can't be right! You're crazy! If CtC were actually right, it would mean the government's been concealing and denying the truth for years on end, and everybody knows THAT would never happen... (Edward Snowden, come home! It was all just a bad dream; there really is No Such Agency!)
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 the latest (fifteenth) edition of CtC!
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Fear nothing but God This means always do what's right, fearlessly Tell the truth, always, and never suffer a lie to live. “When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” -Yevgeny Yevtushenko The U.S. Income Tax: An Excise On The Profitable Exploitation Of Federal Privilege The U.S. Ignorance Tax: The Profitable Exploitation of Confusion About The Income Tax *** Join me on 'Christian Revolt Long Overdue' with Nick Landholt, Friday, March 24 at 4PM EST 200,000 Admissions Against Interest CtC stands a mile above all other whistle-blowing in American history in sheer, overwhelming evidence. ADMISSIONS AGAINST SELF-INTEREST are so axiomatically significant, and such obviously sound evidence, that they are even given special weight in trials. Such admissions are deemed self-authenticating exceptions to the "exclusion of hearsay" evidentiary rules. As the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Evidence observed in proposing the exception as Rule 804(b)(3): "[T]he assumption that persons do not make statements which are damaging to themselves unless satisfied for good reason that they are true" provides the requisite "circumstantial guarantee of reliability" to make the hearsay statements admissible. Notes of Advisory Committee on Proposed Rules, Rule 804(b)(3).(As quoted by the 7th Cir. Court of Appeals in US v. Harty, 930 F.2d 1257 (1991).) Here's how such an admission is described in that "exceptions" rule: FRE Rule 804(b)(3) Statement Against Interest. A statement that: (A) a reasonable person in the declarant’s position would have made only if the person believed it to be true because, when made, it was so contrary to the declarant’s proprietary or pecuniary interest or had so great a tendency to invalidate the declarant’s claim against someone else... Let's look at the history of government responses to the revelations in 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' (CtC) in light of this legal doctrine (and the simple common sense on which it is based). TAX AGENCIES, AND PARTICULARLY THE IRS, are government agencies charged with maximizing revenue. They are equipped with massive budgets, enormous staffs, decades-long histories of getting away with pretty-much whatever they wish in the legislatures and the courts, institutionally-skeptical attitudes and armories of inquisitorial tools and authority for challenging and refusing any filing or claim for refund against which they can gin up even the flimsiest pretext. When such agencies issue checks in response to tax filings declaring that no "income" was received and demanding the return of all amounts withheld, or deficiency-allegation "closing notices", or lien releases, or levy reimbursements, or in any other way honor such filings, they are making admissions of the correctness of CtC. Plainly, every one of these admissions is an "admission against interest", and thus rises to an evidentiary-grade expression of what the admitting government actually knows and believes to be true. In the now-fourteen years since the first publication of CtC's revelations about the income tax, federal and state tax agencies have made upwards of 200,000 such admissions. Billions of dollars are involved. EVERY ONE OF THESE GOVERNMENT ADMISSIONS has been of a definitive and unmistakable evidentiary character. Look again at the illustrative words in FRE 804(b)(3): "...contrary to the declarant’s proprietary or pecuniary interest or had so great a tendency to invalidate the declarant’s claim against someone else...". It is impossible to imagine admissions more unambiguously contrary to a tax agency's pecuniary interest or having a greater tendency to invalidate its claims against someone else than its issuance of a check, or a "closing notice" to a notice of deficiency claim, or the honoring in any way whatever of tax filings declaring that no "income" was received and/or self-assessing at $0. More, these endless admissions have been made against a backdrop of equally-endless efforts by these same governments to discourage people from making the claims the agencies find themselves compelled to honor. (Some of the ugly but revealing details of these discouragement efforts can be seen here and here.) That is, corrupt elements high up the food chain in these agencies and their principals DON'T WANT THOSE CHECKS ISSUED, or the other types of admissions to be made. Those corrupt actors are trying to thwart those admissions in the only way they can-- by trying to keep the CtC-informed claims that compel the admissions from being made in the first place. These discouragement efforts make clear that the primary interest of those higher up the food chain is not obedience to the law and these admissions are "against interest". By that same token, all these admissions make clear that every "official" expression against the revelations of CtC, however and by whoever made, is merely a corrupt, self-interested lie. IN LIGHT OF ALL THIS, I think I am on rock-solid safe ground in saying that never in American history has there been a greater mountain of evidence manifestly proving legal and practical correctness than there is on behalf of the revelations in CtC. Indeed, I think nothing else has ever even come close. And yet, all of this remains the most under-reported story of the 21st century. Worse, over the next four weeks ten thousand institutional and professional voices will still get away with deceiving millions of Americans about the true nature of the tax. These poor folks will be successfully cajoled or snookered into signing away ownership of their own property to Leviathan for its disposal, rather than re-establishing their own claims to that property as is both their right and their obviously prudent and civically-responsible self-interest. It's absolutely mind-boggling, isn't it? Or maybe the word I'm looking for is "tragic", or "shameful"... or how about "criminal"? *** BTW, this might be a good article to share with that relative, attorney, CPA or HR person that seems to have so much trouble making his or her own admissions of the truth of CtC's revelations. Here's a .pdf that'll make this easy to do.
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A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words A few words about pictures, and a few pictures about words. WRITTEN ANALYSES ARE INDISPENSABLE to an accurate communication of the critical nuances and details of any subject. Still, sometimes the written presentation of the distinctions drawn in the law between the all-inclusive general class of something and the tax-related subclass of the thing can be confusing. This is especially so when the subclass distinguished in the law continues to be called by the same name as the general class, and the reader is obliged to resort to context in order to recognize the distinction. Let's look at a couple of class/subclass distinctions in tax-law areas of widest interest-- those between "wages" relevant to the tax and the general class 'wages' as the word is commonly-defined. In order to help cement the distinctions in mind, I'm going to deploy some graphic aids. These images should assist greatly in communicating the true nature of the subclasses, and as a serendipity, serve to illustrate the effect of the "includes" rule of construction, as well. WE'LL START WITH the basic division between ALL wages (pay for labor, generically) and the two "wage" subclasses relevant to the "federal income" (fed-come) tax. First, see the "wages" distinguished for purposes of Chapter 24, which are themselves dependent in that distinction on the statutory distinction between commonly-defined employees and "chapter 24 employees": 26 USC § 3401(c) Employee For purposes of this chapter, the term ''employee'' includes an officer, employee, or elected official of the United States, a State, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, or any agency or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing. The term ''employee'' also includes an officer of a corporation.* (*This only means an officer who is paid for services rendered, and not someone with merely an unpaid directorial position-- see IRS pub. 15A. Also, the corporations covered are only "United States corporations"-- see this for some particulars regarding this distinction.) The graphic representation of this statutory definition is seen in the following diagram:
It is clear that the workers who qualify as "employees" for purposes of the chapter and its provisions are a subclass from among the larger generic class of ALL employees. This is just as the statute says, of course, and is also self-evident from the simple fact that a special definition is given at all. If the "employees" relevant to the tax were not a subclass of the overall class: 'employee', a special definition would be neither needed nor rational. Looking at the definition of "wages" as used in chapter 24, we find another distinction drawn: 26 USC § 3401(a) Wages For purposes of this chapter, the term ''wages'' means all remuneration (other than fees paid to a public official) for services performed by an employee [defined, for purposes of this chapter, as shown above]... Here is the graphic representation of this distinction and relationship:
All told, then, we see that "wages" as meant in chapter 24 (the remuneration subject to that chapter's withholding provisions, and also serving as measure of taxable activity subject to the normal "subtitle A" fed-come tax) is only what is paid to statutorily-distinguished "employees" (a subclass of the greater class of ALL employees, and thus, plainly NOT "all employees"). Now, turning to chapter 21 "wages", we have to again first look at a primary distinction drawn in the law-- this time between commonly-defined 'employment' and statutorily-defined "employment": 26 USC § 3121(b) Employment For purposes of this chapter, the term ''employment'' means any service, of whatever nature, performed by [a long, involved series of distinguished individuals, deploying dependencies resting on other dependencies]... The graphic representation of this subclass distinguished from the class of ALL employment looks like this:
Turning to the "wages" definition for chapter 21, we find the statutorily-distinguished "employment" subclass invoked: 26 USC § 3121(a) Wages For purposes of this chapter, the term ''wages'' means all remuneration for employment... Again, looking at the graphic representation, we clearly see that "wages" to which the FICA sur-taxes apply are merely a subclass of all wages:
It's all pretty easy to take in and keep straight with the help of these diagrams, isn't it? A picture really IS worth a thousand words! “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
Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend A Nice Bit Of Outreach Just the sort of thing that should be in every newspaper in America... THE FOLLOWING LETTERS TO THE EDITOR appeared in the Hell's Canyon Journal March 8 and 15. This is serious, powerful outreach that may very well save some good Americans from the "ignorance tax". It's great stuff, that I hope might inspire others to do the same right away.
BILL ISSUED A THOUGHTFUL CHALLENGE to his neighbors. Here's my challenge to you: Think about what might happen if thousands of letters like this one, thoughtfully invoking the thoughtful sensibilities of the reader, appeared in local papers over the next few weeks? A LOT might happen, I believe. And all of it good.
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do." -Everett Hale (...and every other person who has ever deserved liberty...)
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Thank goodness the sun is now shining...
A Review of CtC by Derek Cushman
You can also find this film at https://vimeo.com/175424277. Regarding Trolleries (Deceitful efforts to discourage Americans from learning the truth about the "income tax")
The plane that gets the most flak is the one that's right above the target.
FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE 2003 when CtC was first published, the government has engaged in a concerted effort to frighten people away from its truths. This effort involves official government websites and press releases touting an occasional court ruling that appears to be at odds with some CtC-revelation (but without details sufficient to expose the real substance of the ruling)-- and sometimes even more mendacious behavior. Click here for the rest of this article
Care to post a comment on this article? Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend ***** Are the presentations and resources offered on this site and in my other work of any value to you?
Tim Kendrick has posted a video on YouTube regarding donations. I didn't know what to do about it to begin with; I don't do what I do intending for anyone to feel obligated in any way. But of course, no one IS obligated. I will continue to make my work freely-available here, and in my books for only the cost of a cheap paperback. Thus, even though I post it here below, Tim's very thoughtful personal resolution and encouragement to others is just an invitation for consideration by those who may not be conscious of the fact that I can't do what I do without support. No one is to feel any pressure from it; if it moves anyone to act let it be solely because it seems right.
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Why Does The Government Lie About 'Cracking the Code'? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION is the key to the restoration of the republic and the rule of law in America. See it below. (NOTE: It's very important that the entire 24 minutes be viewed.)
This video can also be found on YouTube at https://youtu.be/hgzzYl-eeUI. Here are links to the two pages to which viewers are directed at the end of the film: The Crime of the Century and The Truth About The 16th Amendment. The other two mentioned in the film are this one (the "bulletin board" stack of 1,200 or so posted refunds and other victories in knowledgably applying the law; and this one (the collection of resisted claims and the outcomes of those little battles). PLEASE be a real activist about sending this link to every single person in your address book, and about sharing it through facebook, reddit, twitter, and any other distribution channel with which you are familiar. Send it to every journalist you can. It's time to really make something happen. Accompany your emails and posts with with a strong admonishment to watch the film through, and that doing so will show the viewer an individual-empowering, state-restraining truth about the income tax which the government has been trying to keep hidden from view for 75 years and which that person really needs to know. BY THE WAY, as is impossible to miss, I have neither the skills nor the tools to make even moderately good films. This is simply not my forte. Anyone able to do better is encouraged to talk to me about that. As is ALSO impossible to miss, though-- even in my amateur production-- reader video testimonials have GREAT POWER. Send me yours.
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***** How To Be A Leader In The CtC Community It's simple KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX IN DETAIL KNOW WHERE TO FIND THE RESOURCES BE FAMILIAR WITH THE SCAMS, THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS, AND THE TROLL-POLLUTION TAKE CHARGE IN YOUR STATE FORUM, HELPING EVERYONE TO THINK CLEARLY AND STAY ON TOPIC All-in-all, just be the sort of person for others that you would go to yourself for trustworthy leadership. Leadership is a challenge. But it's not complicated, and you can do it.
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True American Joe Black Testifies And Shares Victories For Liberty And The Rule Of Law ...as every American should... EDUCATED AMERICAN GROWN-UP JOE BLACK has stood up and acted to enforce the law upon its domestic enemies-- or, at least, upon agencies of the state whose operators seem to happily exploit ignorance and mis-apply the law at every chance for their personal benefit. Get inspired and encouraged by Joe's video sharing his spirit, his testimony and the acknowledgements he has secured:
Find more testimonial videos
here, and please, people, share these around as widely as
you can. To learn what, how and why to share your own testimony
(with or without mere practical victories to go along with the
far more important spiritual victories that are the real heart
of
CtC), click
here. Care
to post a comment on this article?
Set a brushfire-- E-mail this newsletter to a friend Two Simple Questions For Every Silent
"Alt-Media" Journalist The silence of these folks is the
liberation bottleneck. Maybe this'll help, if enough people
ask...
HERE'S A SIMPLE QUESTION: The income tax is, and always has
been,
an excise tax on privilege. This is established beyond any
controversy whatever by
repeated Supreme Court rulings, the words of the related laws,
and, since 2003, by
hundreds of thousands of acknowledgements by federal and state
tax agencies.
You, like most folks, have been fooled into inadvertently
agreeing that your economic activities are exercises of
privilege, thereby allowing the tax to be applied to your
earnings. Why is this so hard for you to admit?
HERE'S ANOTHER SIMPLE QUESTION: You and everyone else being
fooled into agreeing that your economic activities are
privileged and thereby allowing them to be taxed is
what enables the flow of wealth that finances all the bad things
done by the state of which you complain in every column. Why
is this so hard for you to admit?
I GUESS THESE ACTUALLY LEAD TO A THIRD SIMPLE QUESTION: If you
really feel that all these things of which you complain are so
bad, why are you not helping more Americans understand
the
true nature of the tax and the ill effects of it being misunderstood
and misapplied?
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PRO TIP: By the
physics of the law, an indirect tax is necessarily a
privilege tax. Here's why: The distinction between a
direct tax and an indirect tax is incidence. A
direct tax arises by the direct imposition of the
taxer, without any election of the taxed (other than
that of authorizing the taxing power in the first
place). An
indirect tax arises by the taxed
choosing t to to to to do
something by which the taxer's claim is then
created. The choice that is a valid object of an
indirect tax can't be anything done as an exercise
of an untaxable right. Nor can it be any activity of
necessity. A tax on anything done by necessity would
arise not by actual election of the taxed but simply
because the tax had been imposed by the taxer. Such
a tax, whatever it may be called, would be in actual
substance a direct tax, even if one that arose only
intermittently. Think of a tax on eating, for
example, or working, or engaging in trade with
others (all of which are things done by right as
well as by necessity, but you get the point). What is left as the
valid object of an indirect tax is the exercise of
privilege-- something done not by right, and
therefore done by the permission of the taxer (who,
due to being possessed of an ownership right in the
thing being permitted, is entitled to claim of
portion of the proceeds when the thing is profitably
used). "[Although the Legislature
may declare as privileges and tax as such for State
revenue purposes those pursuits and occupations that
are not matters of common right], the Legislature
has no power to declare as a privilege and tax for
revenue purposes occupations that are of common
right."
Sims v. Ahrens
The 'Watching the Watchmen Amendment' If you're not talking this one up everywhere and
helping generate a buzz, you don't really want liberty and the
rule of law... PRO TIP: The
argument that a concept explicitly given a statutory
definition for purposes of this or that chapter or
"title" has the same meaning as the common word the
legislature has borrowed for its label-- which
meaning plainly didn't suit the legislature's
purposes, hence its replacement-- is a preposterous
reading of the law. “It is axiomatic that the
statutory definition of the term excludes unstated
meanings of that term.”
Meese v. Keene “[W]e are not at liberty to
put our gloss on the definition that Congress
provided by looking to the generally accepted
meaning of the defined term.”
In light of
the actual evidence, those
who doubt or
deny the accuracy and correctness of
CtC just because some government officials
denounce it are like the 16th-century Europeans who
were mystified by
Copernicus getting all those
astronomical predictions right even though the
church had said he was wrong.
Do you have a victory to share?
Click
here to learn how to do so.
If you're working on one, and just getting stonewalled
or speed-bumped, you can still be recognized! Go
here to learn what to do. NEW! Orders of twelve or more books now come with a free DVD containing six informative and inspiring videos-- 112 minutes in all. Click here for the details. ***** Did you miss the 'Set Your Church Free' commentaries? Ignorance of the true nature of the "income" tax has gagged, gutted and seduced-into-disgrace America's ministerial community. This must change.
Copy and post this one around, people!
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Media Evasion Of CtC Must End, Now Time, unfortunately, is on the side of the well-funded disinformation specialists class
Illuminating anniversaries of this week: March 31- In 1774,
Great Britain orders the port of Boston closed in response to
the Boston Tea Party. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower is
inaugurated. In 1917, the United States buys the Danish West
Indies for $25 million and renames them the United States Virgin
Islands. In 1918, Daylight Saving Time debuts. In 1933, the
FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps boondoggle is established as a
measure to relieve unemployment brought about by the
Fed-generated economic collapse known as the Great Depression.
It fails miserably. Programs of this very sort interfered with
the economic correction necessary to end the depression and
merely prolonged the calamity, leaving the unemployment rate
largely unchanged (it remained as high as 15% in 1937 while the
boondoggle make-work jobs continued, and jumped back up to 19%
in 1938 when some of the artificial "New Deal" props like the
CCC program were cut back), but adding greatly to the size and
lawlessness of the State. In 1951, the first UNIVAC 1 is
delivered to the United States Census Bureau. In 1968,
President Lyndon Johnson announces that he will not run for
re-election.
Are You Having Trouble Spreading The Word? SKEPTICISM (SOMETIMES INVOKED BY FEAR) IS TO BE EXPECTED when you're trying to explain to someone that everything they've been encouraged their whole lives to believe about something as entrenched and significant as the income tax is basically nonsense. So here's a way to help cut through the resistance: Ask your listener how he or she would react if you were to show an announcement from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue admitting that the tax doesn't apply to the earnings of most Americans and is misapplied most of the time because people don't understand how it works? Or how about if you showed a ruling from the Supreme Court saying the same? Now you just have to explain that you're going to show exactly those things-- but because the state really doesn't want people to know this, these things haven't been said quite as forthrightly as we would all wish. It's going to take a bit more work to take these admissions in than is sufficient for just reading a press release. But it'll be worth the effort... *****
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
OUTREACH!!! JOB ONE, PEOPLE!!! SPREAD. THE. WORD. ONLY ONE THING WILL WIN YOU YOUR LIBERTY: Spreading the truth. Accordingly, I've assembled outreach resources into a new, dedicated page. Find it here, and please, USE THESE TOOLS!! I can't do this all by myself. "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell *****
“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
There is little more important to the long-term health of America than how our children are educated..
***** Some Observations Regarding Educated And Accurate Filing
Have You Taken A Military, Law Enforcement or Public Office Oath To Uphold And Defend The Constitution? 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".
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'Don't Tread On Me' Polo Shirts Say It All!
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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...
'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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HELP SPREAD THE LIBERATING TRUTH ABOUT THE TAX “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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"Taxes are not raised to carry on wars, wars are raised to carry on taxes." -Thomas Paine
Where To Find Things On This Site
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Films That Belong In Every Home Library
Ever Wonder How Much An Unrestrained FedState Would Like To Tap You For?
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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
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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 is possibly the most effective lawyer in history, even while never having set foot in a law school, nor ever being a card-carrying member of "the bar". He is 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); further, since 2003 students of his legal analyses and arguments in ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’’ (CtC), and its sequel, 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' have been routinely retaining and recovering billions of dollars which otherwise-- wrongly, but as a matter of course-- would have gone to federal or state government treasuries. This despite concerted efforts by government to suppress his work, and in some cases vigorously oppose the claims by his students. 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. © All written and graphic material on this page and website are copyrighted by Peter E. Hendrickson, unless otherwise attributed. |
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