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Uncle Jay Explains "Tax Day"

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

Illuminating Anniversaries Of This Week

April 16- In 1862, slavery is outlawed in the District of Columbia-- a year after the start of the War Between the States.  In 1941, Bob Feller throws an opening-day no-hitter for the Cleveland Indians against the Chicago White Sox.  In 1943, Albert Hofmann takes his first trip.  In 1947, approximately 2,300 tons of ammonium nitrate exploded in a cargo ship in the harbor of Texas City, Texas, wreaking enormous destruction.  In 2007, a lone gunman successfully kills or wounds 55 American adults who had been denied the means of self-defense under the policies of Virginia Tech.

 

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

 

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FOREWORD

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

 

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

-Samuel Adams

 

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

 

Just Say "No!" To Thugs

 

APRIL 15 IS "TAX DAY", the day by which most Americans will have decided whether to stand for the law, or slink for a lie.

 

Weighing in the scales on the side of standing up for the law are self-respect, respect for the law, the well-being of our children, our debt to the sacrifices of our ancestors, control over nearly half of all most of us sweat for every day of our lives, and our ability to discipline the size and character of the increasingly dangerous, increasingly contemptuous state.

 

On the side of the lie is the delusion harbored by many that by endorsing the fiction of a personal indebtedness to their "public servants" even when there is none, or when they have made no study of the relevant law so as to know whether there is one or not*, the cowed and craven will be "left alone" by the monster which they have thus made stronger, more pervasive, more undisciplined and more contemptuous of them for their latest abject surrender to its unbridled lust.

 

Let's look at what "being left alone" will involve:

  • The loss of 45% or so of the "left alone" person's earnings (a good portion of which will be handed over to special interests who will enjoy the fruits of the earner's labor in his stead, while kicking back a goodly portion of the cream to the political operatives in the way of campaign contributions in order to ensure that the cycle continues to fester and worsen);

  • Financing the continued and increasingly vigorous ministrations of the army of bureaucrats whose well-paid mission in life is to dictate every aspect of the "left alone" person's life, from the way he cuts his grass to the way he raises his children, along with the lawyers, cops and guards who will see to his punishment for any resistance to those dictates;

  • Encouraged and accelerated state evasions of the rule of law in all other areas, including, but not limited to, forcing the "left alone" person to spend what wealth is left to him in the interests of factions who have purchased influence with the political elite (like the "healthcare mandate"); ever greater assaults on personal privacy; the assertion of non-constitutionally-authorized power over American energy consumption ("cap and trade" and other let's-all-get-destitute-together-'cause-otherwise-the-sky-will-fall! "green" shades of lipstick on old socialist tyranny pigs); and the continued erosion of legal protections for those accused by the state of failing to adequately love and obey its commands.

Such a deal!

 

Further, of course, not only is this kind of "being left alone" NOT being left alone at all, but making a false choice of this sort now also means the loss of one more annual opportunity to loosen the rack on which the American heritage of liberty and law has been being systematically broken for decades now.  Every person who chooses to go with a lie lends his or her weight to turning the ratchet on that rack past another, tighter notch.

 

On the other hand, every American who says "No!" to lying, and to the thugs whose ambition for control over our lives, fortunes and sacred honor the lies serve, stands with the Founding generation in mature, honorable acceptance of the sometimes-inconvenient reality that Constitutions can't enforce themselves and those whom the law seeks to restrain can't be relied upon to faithfully exercise those restraints over themselves.  As Frederick Douglas observed,

 

"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."

 

Only a deluded fool would think otherwise.

 

Right now, we're at the apex of another annual "fear campaign" by which it is hoped that even those Americans who owe no tax will be intimidated into declaring the contrary, and giving the law-defiers and Constitutional-limit-despisers a pass for another year of eroding everything that makes this country great.  My own ongoing ordeal is being presented to suggest the risks taken by those who refuse to delude themselves with the false choice of just being "left alone" for another turn of the wheel, and who instead stand up on behalf of the rule of law.

 

Through this ritual of fear-mongering, the adversaries of the Founders' vision of a free America graced with a strictly limited government hope that everyone-- those who have engaged in taxable activities and those who have not-- will bow and submit to the avarice and ambition of those adversaries, under the delusion that if and when being "left alone" gets too intolerable, there'll still be time then to stand up and lay down the law, and make everything right.  Those adversaries of the law know that this is a pipe-dream, and that they grow stronger every time an American makes the wrong choice in this regard, and the people grow weaker.  As one member of our greatest generation pointed out, when faced with the same choice,

"They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable--and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come.

 

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace-- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

Sound hokey, and dated, maybe even quaint?  Sure.  And subjugating a people under some fictional pretense of authority, and commanding them like slaves or serfs, thanks to the successful propagation of myths about "tax amendments", "social contracts" and "collective responsibilities"-- fortified by the subtext that to stand up and say "NO!" is to risk being singled out for "special attention"-- is hokey, dated and quaint, too, because it is the age-old dynamic by which tyrants ply their craft.  But that dynamic hasn't gone away, however quaint it may be; and thus Patrick Henry's clear-eyed wisdom and resolution remain just as timely today as they were in 1775.

 

How we go from here and now is in your hands.

 

This great country got where it is now by a series of bad choices, made one by one, person by person, over a century of apathy, delusion, and fear.

 

Its road back to liberty and the rule of law can only be navigated by another series of choices-- good choices, made one by one, person by person, with courage and commitment to the truth.

 

There is no other way.

 

 

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

 

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Giving The Court A Chance To Fix A Few Errors...

(Updated below)

 

SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANT’S NOVEMBER 3, 2009 MOTION FOR JUDGMENT OF ACQUITTAL AND/OR NEW TRIAL

 

NOW, HAVING READ THE BRIEF THROUGH, spend a few moments reflecting on the fact that the ploys that I detail in this document are the sort grasped-at by an adversary who has lost the battle over what the law really says and means.  This sort of corrupt gamesmanship (and the great deal more that I was unable to address in this particular brief due to page-limits) is that of an adversary beaten by the truth uniquely revealed in CtC.

 

It is also the gamesmanship of enemies of the law that still hope to carry on with the "ignorance tax" anyway, by frightening the educated into standing down and going quiet.  THESE folks hope that YOU folks will NOT read things like this brief.  They hope that you will NOT recognize that the legal battle is actually over, that there is no "nuance" in the law permitting them to "foil" the truth revealed in CtC, and that the only real battle now being fought is for control over your conscience, your courage and your will.

 

THESE LAW-DEFIERS HOPE that you will be diverted into fruitless quests for "silver bullets" or into empty grumbling, or into ANYTHING other than continuing to act and speak the truth.  They don't care what you do, as long as you stop bearing witness to the fact that the answer to their decades of pernicious assault on liberty and the rule of law through the misadministration of the "income" tax is in hand, needing nothing to be fully realized but more Americans taking their stand, standing their ground and raising their voices.

 

DON'T STOP.

 

UPDATE

(3/30/10)

 

ON MARCH 19, THE DoJ filed its response to my motion (after seeking and getting a 7-day extension in which to do so based on the assertion that having forgotten how busy it is this time of year, it failed to budget enough time to stay within the mandated period).  You'll find it posted below, but...

 

Before you read it, re-read my motion carefully.

 

HAVING DONE SO, prepare for reading the DoJ response by revving up your evasion/fudge/mischaracterization/lie-detector to fire on all cylinders.

 

For instance, be prepared to recognize the deployment of gross bs like the obvious perjury of Shauna Henline.  Henline made the absurd claim that when a return arrives at the IRS, any refund claimed on it just gets sent, no questions asked.  (I think the folks whose stories make up the 'Every Which Way But Loose' series and many of the 'Victories Highlights' might find that assertion a bit inaccurate...  For that matter, four out of six of my own claims filed with the agency have yet to "just get sent".)

 

The DoJ tries to use that blatantly perjurious assertion in its response to argue that even though it made no effort in trial to prove my filings to be "material" in the sense meant in the charged offenses (just as it made no effort to prove that they were false), this should be "assumed", based on Henline's ridiculous assertion.

 

(On the other hand, Henline also admitted under oath that her one office alone has seen-- "conservatively speaking", as she said-- more than 10,000 CtC-educated filings during the last several years, proving, among other things, that the CtC-educated community is here to stay, and won't be frightened back into silence or lies by the frantic snarling of the junk-yard dog tax agency.)

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 17- In 1521, Martin Luther refuses to recant his teachings in an address to the assembly at the Diet of Worms.  In 1861, Virginia secedes from the United States.  In 1905, the US Supreme Court upholds the right of two or more Americans to freely contract with each other on terms of their own liking, even in defiance of state efforts to impose restrictions and controls, in the case of Lochner v. New York.  In 1949, 26 counties leave the British Commonwealth and form the Republic of Ireland.  In 1961, CIA-trained Cuban refugees invade the Bay of Pigs in an effort to overthrow the Castro regime.  In 1964, Ford unveils the Mustang.  In 1970, Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth.

 

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

-Edmund Burke

 

Green Zone

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Trial Update

 

"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

 

Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?

NOTHING.

 

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

 

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

-Daniel Webster

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

 

 

Warriors, don't miss the every-other-Wednesday PalTalk e-conference!  The next get-together is April 28!  Click here for details.

 

'Real Americans Walk the Walk'

A New CtC Film to See and Share

Spread it around to EVERYONE!!

(Warriors!  Where Are YOUR testimonials?)

 

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."

– Thomas Jefferson

 

Three great NEW animations:

'The Great Ducking Of America'

'Learn How To Get YOUR Stimulus Check'

'Improbable History- You Decide!'

See and share them all!

 

Take The Red Pill

 

 

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'Knowing Is Better'

A new, 2-minute CtC video to see and share!

 

Click here to see or download the .wmv version (only 2.5 megs, and thus easily sent around by email), or see and share the large-format "high-def" version on YouTube here.

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 18- In 1775, Paul Revere makes his midnight ride to rouse the American militia.  In 1783, the fighting in the war for American independence comes to an end.  In 1906, an earthquake and consequent fire destroys much of San Francisco.  Unhindered by FEMA or other officious and corrupt interference from Washington, the city is quickly rebuilt.  In 1923, Yankee Stadium opens.  In 1946, the League of Nations is dissolved.

 

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

-James Madison

 

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

 

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

 

THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING:

"I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves...too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: 'Our country, right or wrong!'  They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country--when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'"
-Senator Carl Schurz, October 17, 1899

 

How Americans are propagandized about Afghanistan

On February 12 of this year, U.S. forces entered a village in the Paktia Province in Afghanistan and, after surrounding a home where a celebration of a new birth was taking place, shot dead two male civilians (government officials) who exited the house in order to inquire why they had been surrounded, and then shot and killed three female relatives (a pregnant mother of ten, a pregnant mother of six, and a teenager).  The Pentagon then issued a statement claiming that (a) the dead males were "insurgents" or terrorists, (b) the bodies of the three women had been found by U.S. forces bound and gagged inside the home, and (c) suggested that the women had already been killed by the time the U.S. had arrived, likely the victim of "honor killings" by the Taliban militants killed in the attack.

Although numerous witnesses on the scene as well as local investigators vehemently disputed the Pentagon's version, and insisted that all of the dead (including the women) were civilians and were killed by U.S. forces, the American media largely adopted the Pentagon's version, often without any questions.  But enough evidence has now emerged disproving those claims such that the Pentagon was forced yesterday to admit that their original version was totally false and that it was U.S. troops who killed the women:

After initially denying involvement or any cover-up in the deaths of three Afghan women during a badly bungled American Special Operations assault in February, the American-led military command in Kabul admitted late on Sunday that its forces had, in fact, killed the women during the nighttime raid.

One NATO official said that there had likely been an effort to cover-up what happened by U.S. troops via evidence tampering on the scene (though other NATO officials deny this claim).  The Times of London actually reported yesterday that, at least according to Afghan investigators, "US special forces soldiers dug bullets out of their victims’ bodies in the bloody aftermath of a botched night raid, then washed the wounds with alcohol before lying to their superiors about what happened."

What is clear -- yet again -- is how completely misinformed and propagandized Americans continue to be by the American media, which constantly "reports" on crucial events in Afghanistan by doing nothing more than mindlessly and unquestioningly passing along U.S. government claims as though they are fact.  Here, for instance, is how the Paktia incident was "reported" by CNN on February 12:

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Held Over Recommendations:

 

 

Right-Wing Obamacare

by Daniel McCarthy

 

'Killing America's Kids'

by Fred Reed

 

'The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude'

by Étienne de la Boétie

 

'Too Legit To Quit'

by Myron Weber

 

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

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 19- In 1775, the battle of Lexington and Concord begins.  In 1933, FDR announces the abandonment of the gold standard.  In 1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion effort is defeated.  In 1993, the Clinton administration firebombs a community in Waco, Texas, killing 81 American men, women and children.  In 1995, the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City is partly destroyed by explosives.

 

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The March To Victory

There is only one place where actual, positive victories on behalf of the truth about the income tax are being won, and that is within the ranks of those educated by 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'.  Here are this week's additions to the ever-growing mountain of such victories, each of which represents a concrete shift of overall power and control away from the state and back to individual Americans where it belongs.

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

 

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

 

Taking Action (And ONLY Taking Action) Brings Results

 

Ever notice how everybody complains about the overgrown, arrogant federal government, but nobody actually does anything about it?  Well, actually, some of us DO do something about it.

 

The Americans you're about to meet know the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.  These heroes read 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' and learned the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the "income" tax.  They know who's really in charge, and how, and why.  They're done arguing with the social director about the best arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic, and have gone down to the engine room to make some changes.

(Interestingly, April 15 was the date the Titanic sank...)

 

NOTE: Unless otherwise indicated, all posted federal victories are of ALL amounts withheld or paid in, which includes amounts withheld as ostensible "Social Security and Medicare taxes" as well as those more directly denominated as "federal income taxes".

 

CtC Warrior John Sytsma has learned the accurate truth about the law, and risen to take action.  Having concluded, after study of the relevant law, that his earnings during 2006 were not a result of any taxable activities, John filed a Minnesota return accordingly.  On May 18, 2009, John enjoyed the return of all of his property withheld and given over to the state, plus interest.  Enjoy John's first victory for the rule of law at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories41.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior Tracy Banks isn't just waiting for someone else to take responsibility for the course her beloved country is on, either.  Tracy shares her first victory this week-- the return of everything withheld from them and given over to Minnesota in connection with the "income" tax during 2007, on June 30, 2009.  Enjoy Tracy's debut victory at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior A. M. is standing up on behalf of our rule of law, too.  A. shares his first CtC-educated victory this week-- a February, 2010 "closing notice" from the federal government acknowledging his accurate return on which all allegations of his receipt of "income" during 2008 were rebutted, and in such particularly plain terms that his becomes the latest of the Victory Highlights.  Enjoy A.'s victory for truth, justice and the American way there and at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior Milton Shaw is also in action.  On March 1, 2010, Milton secured his first victory on behalf of the rule of law-- the return of everything that had been withheld from him and turned over to the federal government in connection with the "income" tax during 2009.  Enjoy this uplifting victory for the vision of the Founders at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior Alex _ is standing with these fine folks and the rest of the CtC community on behalf of all of our rights.  On March 19, 2010, Alex secured his sixth victory-- a complete refund from the federal government of everything withheld from him and given over to it in connection with the "income" tax during 2009.  Enjoy Alex's latest victory for the rule of law at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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...and just 14 days ago, on March 26, 2010 CtC Warriors Jason and Brigitte E. secured their first victory for the rule of law-- the return of all property withheld from them and given over to the federal government in connection with the "income" tax during 2009

 

Jason and Brigitte's debut victory in enforcing the Constitution, like those of the rest of these good Americans, joins all the others in the ongoing river of evidence of the accuracy of 'Cracking the Code-...' flowing without interruption...

 

...well over six years since the beginning of intense IRS efforts to suppress the book;

 

...almost five years since the DOJ itself moved for dismissal of three different IRS efforts to attack CtC as "promoting false or fraudulent tax schemes" in three different courts across the country in 2004 and 2005;

 

...more than three years since a carefully-inaccurate description of a typical CtC-educated filing was listed as #1 on the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list (the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals recently excused this and similar efforts to mislead, declaring that the government can't be prohibited from "SUGGESTING [that CtC] promotes false or fraudulent tax schemes" (emphasis added));

 

...more than three years since the launching of the hokey and contrived IRS PR-campaign "lawsuit" against my wife and me, ostensibly seeking to recover refunds made to us several years ago which even the United States Treasury Department acknowledges were, and remain, perfectly proper;

 

...and well over a year since the IRS launched a vicious assault on me personally in a desperate, deeply corrupt effort to cow the educated into paralysis and frighten the ignorant away from the liberating truth, so as to continue successfully bleeding both into penury and subjugation.

 

 

Celebrate Jason and Brigitte's upholding of the law and all the hundreds and hundreds of others at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm and on the dozens of other victory pages.

 

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How About You?

Have You Done Your Fair Share In Support Of The Rule Of Law?!

 

Or are you STILL unable to let actual hard facts and evidence overcome the mere propaganda you've been fed all your life by those with a well-defined and substantial financial interest in keeping you mindlessly ignorant of the truth about the tax?

 

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By the way, those who have stood up and taken proper action WITHOUT having yet enjoyed a lawful response are already victors as well.  The moment that a timely, proper and accurate filing is made the virtuous blow on behalf of the rule of law has been struck.

 

The moment that a timely, proper and accurate filing is made the entire exploitation-of-ignorance-as-usual machine stops dead for that filer and that period, and there's no restarting it again (unless the filer can be intimidated into rescission...).  At that point, all current and future illegitimate claims to the filer's property are undone, and the filer's claim for the return of any relevant property is established.  It's just a matter of waiting for the headless chicken to stop running around.

 

However, I don't have a simple way to display victories at that stage of progress.

 

If you're in the category of those who have acted, but whose proper filings are being resisted, rest assured that your victory IS recognized and honored.

 

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

 

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THE PRICE OF BEING RIGHT

Corrupt elements in the federal government have tried four times over the last five years to keep the liberating truth revealed in CtC from the eyes of the American people.  Now, as another "tax season" approaches, they're trying again.

 

MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW

 to help preserve the Rule of Law

 

Click here to learn about this latest effort to keep YOU in helpless, exploited ignorance,

and about how you can help thwart it.

 

Or, if you already know what's going on, just CLICK HERE to donate.

 

Please do your part!!

 

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

 

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Mid-Edition Update

(Scroll down to see all articles in this update)

 

"The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people.  The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS.  The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."

-James Madison

 

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

 

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About The Endless Mendacious Assaults By Those Who Don't Want YOU To Learn The Liberating Truth About The "Income" Tax

 

Click Here

(And read it all the way through.)

 

Here we are in April, 2010...

(Read this one, too.)

 

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A Few Good Words on Current Events

 

They Protest Too Much

by Butler Shaffer

It’s known as "projection": the trait by which one attributes to others various "dark side" attitudes and motivations. The current practice of accusing the Iranian government of warlike intentions in order to rationalize one’s own desires to attack that country is one example. Another instance is found in the efforts of numerous Democratic party supporters to explain the opposition to Barack Obama’s policies as racist-driven. Such "liberal" commentators as Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Alan Colmes, Colbert King, and Frank Rich, along with former president Jimmy Carter, have strained and contorted their minds to suggest that "much" of the criticism of Obama programs – particularly that found in the "Tea Party" movement – arises from people who are uncomfortable with a black man as president.

How has race played into the Obama presidency? To begin with, we must identify the factors that led to this man being elected to that office: (a) he was the "not George Bush" candidate, and (b) for many, he was the opportunity for the United States to have its first non-white president. These considerations, alone, led to his victory in 2008. He offered no clearly-defined programs or policies: "change" and "hope" were about the only words to appear on his behalf on billboards and bumper-stickers. He did not campaign on promises to escalate American wars in the Middle East; to expand the American empire; to nationalize the banking, insurance, auto manufacturing, and health-care industries; or to circumvent the often dilatory processes of Congress by his appointment of "czars" to run the varied sectors of American society. "Hope" and "change" were sufficient bromides to persuade a thoroughly befuddled Boobus to stagger into voting booths to elect this man.

In these post-2008 years, I totally dismiss everything establishment Republicans and conservatives have to say about Obama’s shortcomings and their own "alternatives." It was the unprincipled mindlessness of this crowd – cheering on every utterance offered by the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfeld contingent, as well as their neocon media flacks – that produced the immoral and destructive policies that got Obama elected; policies he now kicks into high-gear! Ron Paul was – and continues to be – the only Republican to condemn the GOP’s embrace of rampant statism. The dismal state of this party is seen in its contemptuous treatment of Ron.

If race is to be considered a major factor in the assessment of Obama, what is to be said of the support he received during the 2008 campaign? I saw a number of post-election polls indicating that, among black voters, Obama received some 95% of their support. Some 40% of white voters, on the other hand, selected Obama. While traditional party loyalties may explain some of this differential, that 40% of white voters favored Obama, while only 5% of blacks voted for McCain, may introduce a racial factor that "liberals" want to overlook. When, on election night, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews announced "I’m going to do everything I can to make this thing work – this new presidency," to what "thing" was he referring? It certainly was not the success of any announced policies, as nothing of any substance had been promised. I received similar comments in e-mails from "liberal" friends, causing me to wonder if a black president’s programs were to be favored over those of a white president and, if so, why? Are those who try to convince you that race motivates many of Obama’s critics, projecting their own sense of uneasiness for allowing race to be the basis for their support?

One cannot understand modern political behavior without grasping a basic truth of which your high-school civics class teacher did not inform you: we have a one-party system consisting of two interconnected franchises, each under the complete control of the political establishment. If you would like to put Janus-like faces to this arrangement, think of that frequent media guest, David Gergen, a man who served as a bipartisan presidential advisor to Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton. Or look upon the married couple, Mary Matalin and James Carville: she a valued GOP advisor to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney; he a Democratic advisor to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

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Halloween Comes to the Subways

by Fred Reed

Give me strength. Washington has lost yet another round to its Islamic enemies. Gaming America is so easy. The pattern is that Islam’s fascists do something cheap but gaudy, whereupon in response our federal fascists do something comic, hysterical, ineffective, expensive and, usually, unconstitutional. Oh good.

This time a couple of women explode on a subway in Moscow, and in New York all manner of absurdly armed Robocops rush into the city’s subway with military paraphernalia dangling from all attachment points. Armor. Helmets. Steely gazes. And what appear to be M16s, described by the press as machine guns, which they are not, and as submachine guns, which they are not, and as assault rifles which, if they are selectable full-auto, they are. Nothing like high-velocity full-auto in a crowded subway car. I mean, all of this is so practical.

How much does this have to do with security? About nothing.

Think. Mahmud the Mad Mullah Boomer, currently in Peoria, decides that he wants to blow himself up in the subway in New York. He sashays over to the airport and buys a round-trip ticket to JFK. Here we have an example of how the terrorist profile guarantees that terrorists won’t be detected: Everyone knows that holders of one-way tickets are harassed unmercifully, subjected to proctologic invasion, having their fillings removed, and God knows what all, because they might be terrorists. Thus any serious terrorist will buy a round-trip ticket. The terrorist profile targets only non-terrorists. I can’t think of anything more useful. Can you?

If Mahmud already has his Semtex or PETN, he simply drives to New York in a rental. So much for the Department of Homeland Servility.

Once in the Magnum Macintosh, Mahmud gets a close shave, puts on a pricey suit, stashes the infernal substance in a stylish briefcase, and heads for the subway. Like any terrorist other than a wing-nut amateur, Mahmud doesn’t look like a terrorist. Meanwhile, the subway is jammed with swarthy men speaking guttural languages in low tones, young punks with green spiked hair, bag ladies muttering and drooling with their eyes pointed in different directions, and people arguing with the little voices that come from the transmitters the CIA planted in their teeth. By contrast, Mahmud looks like a respectable looter from Wall Street.

At rush hour Mahmud dives into the underground. Five thousand people an hour, or maybe ten thousand, or at any rate whole lotsa, people flood through, throwing elbows. So the city’s swatted-out Maximum Deadlies from the Secret Ninja Rifles are conducting Random Searches, the most useless of many useless security measures. Random searchers are never random, of course. The guy with the Harley logo tattooed on his eyeballs will always get pulled before the boringly legit banker. Mahmud sails by.

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Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen

by Glenn Greenwald

In late January, I wrote about the Obama administration's "presidential assassination program," whereby American citizens are targeted for killings far away from any battlefield, based exclusively on unchecked accusations by the Executive Branch that they're involved in Terrorism.  At the time, The Washington Post's Dana Priest had noted deep in a long article that Obama had continued Bush's policy (which Bush never actually implemented) of having the Joint Chiefs of Staff compile "hit lists" of Americans, and Priest suggested that the American-born Islamic cleric Anwar al-Awlaki was on that list.  The following week, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Dennis Blair, acknowledged in Congressional testimony that the administration reserves the "right" to carry out such assassinations.

Today, both The New York Times and The Washington Post confirm that the Obama White House has now expressly authorized the CIA to kill al-Alwaki no matter where he is found, no matter his distance from a battlefield.  I wrote at length about the extreme dangers and lawlessness of allowing the Executive Branch the power to murder U.S. citizens far away from a battlefield (i.e., while they're sleeping, at home, with their children, etc.) and with no due process of any kind.  I won't repeat those arguments -- they're here and here -- but I do want to highlight how unbelievably Orwellian and tyrannical this is in light of these new articles today.

Just consider how the NYT reports on Obama's assassination order and how it is justified:

The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said Tuesday. . . .

American counterterrorism officials say Mr. Awlaki is an operative of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the affiliate of the terror network in Yemen and Saudi Arabia. They say they believe that he has become a recruiter for the terrorist network, feeding prospects into plots aimed at the United States and at Americans abroad, the officials said.

It is extremely rare, if not unprecedented, for an American to be approved for targeted killing, officials said.  A former senior legal official in the administration of George W. Bush said he did not know of any American who was approved for targeted killing under the former president. . . .

"The danger Awlaki poses to this country is no longer confined to words," said an American official, who like other current and former officials interviewed for this article spoke of the classified counterterrorism measures on the condition of anonymity. "He’s gotten involved in plots."

No due process is accorded.  No charges or trials are necessary.  No evidence is offered, nor any opportunity for him to deny these accusations (which he has done vehemently through his family).  None of that.  

Instead, in Barack Obama's America, the way guilt is determined for American citizens -- and a death penalty imposed -- is that the President, like the King he thinks he is, secretly decrees someone's guilt as a Terrorist.  He then dispatches his aides to run to America's newspapers -- cowardly hiding behind the shield of anonymity which they're granted -- to proclaim that the Guilty One shall be killed on sight because the Leader has decreed him to be a Terrorist.  It is simply asserted that Awlaki has converted from a cleric who expresses anti-American views and advocates attacks on American military targets (advocacy which happens to be Constitutionally protected) to Actual Terrorist "involved in plots."  These newspapers then print this Executive Verdict with no questioning, no opposition, no investigation, no refutation as to its truth.  And the punishment is thus decreed:  this American citizen will now be murdered by the CIA because Barack Obama has ordered that it be done.  What kind of person could possibly justify this or think that this is a legitimate government power?

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You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know What You’re Fighting About.

 

If you are having an argument with the IRS or any other tax agency,

  • You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate profit”.

  • You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign income”.

  • You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion contract”.

  • You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject is never identified.

You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply-- even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect, and CAN be corrected.

 

ARM YOURSELF WITH THE FACTS

 

See the Proof

 

Crack the Code

 

Green Zone

See this film.

 

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Uncle Jay Explains April 12, 2010

 

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A New Rasmussen Poll Finds Ron Paul Even With Barack Obama If The Presidential Election Were Held Today

 

Unsurprisingly, while 58% of "flyover country" Americans pick Dr. Paul, 95% of the "political class" go for Obama...  See the story here.

 

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The DoJ Falsifies Its Own Bogus Jury Instruction Regarding The Meaning Of "Employee" In A Filing To The Court

 

Click here to get this sordid little story, which is posted under the "Update" subheading.

 

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There Must Be Something You're Missing, Right?

 

AS YOU RAISE YOUR VOICE in righteous opposition-- even outrage-- at the fastening of another unconstitutional chain on the American public under the name of "National Health Care" by the political cabal in Washington, you don't find yourself being hindered by the nagging suspicion that perhaps there's something about the legislation that you don't understand, or aren't aware of, which makes it all legal despite appearances to the contrary, do you?

 

You don't pause and settle yourself down with the thought that since our elected officials are the ones who enacted this law, it must be proper, and the how and why is simply escaping you because you're not trained as a lawyer, do you?

 

You don't put aside your concern because you know you can count on the courageous and incorruptible judiciary, and those great folks at the DoJ, to see to it that if there IS anything wrong with the legislation, it'll get taken care of through "the judicial process", and your interests will be properly looked-after that way, do you?

 

In short, you don't stand down and put your faith in "the system" to do the right thing, do you?

 

No you don't.

 

YOU DON'T STAND DOWN because you know perfectly well that something that violates the plain words of the Constitution, or isn't clearly authorized by that fundamental law, is illegal, and nothing within its thousands of pages of text can change that, no matter what that something might be.

 

You don't stand down because you know perfectly well that not only can our elected officials NOT be counted on to confine themselves to what is lawful and proper, but they can be counted on to sell whatever authority our complacency allows them to assume to the highest bidder, and the law and our interests be damned.

 

You don't stand down because you know perfectly well that the judicial process is more often than not just a creative rubber-stamp for the corruptions of the political elite who choose the judges and prosecutors, and the only one that's going to look out for your interest in enjoying the benefit of the rule of law is you.

 

You don't stand down because you know "the system" will screw you, lie to you, sneer at the Constitution and treat you like a fool and a tool.

 

If you're wise, you even know that "the system" is (accurately) counting on the fact that if it succeeds in overcoming your opposition now, in a few short years you'll come to believe that there must just be something about the legislation that you don't understand which makes it legal, because if there hadn't been, our elected officials would never have proposed it or voted for it, and the courts would have struck it down.

 

NOW I ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT ALL THIS as we move into the last month of the primary "tax season".  Especially, I ask you discuss all this with your companions at every "health care legislation protest", and "bailout protest" and "tea party" and the protest of whatever will be the next outrage by those running and feeding off the corrupt state that rallies the opposition of the people.

 

Those standing with you at each of these current and fleeting moments of wakefulness desperately need to learn the truth about the biggest exploitation of their ignorance and complacency that there is, and the one that finances and facilitates all the outrages that they DO recognize-- the systematic mis-application of the "income" tax.  Those good folks standing with you right now over the "outrage de jour" have unfortunately harbored a life-long belief that despite the nagging suspicions that arise when they actually read their copy of the Constitution or even just think hard about how the tax is applied, there must be something about it that they don't understand which makes it legal, because if there weren't, our elected officials or courts would have done something about it.

 

The insidious thing about ignorance is that the ignorant don't know what they don't know, and the human mind always favors perspectives to which it has become accustomed, however groundless those perspectives may be.  This produces a lot of resistance to revisiting long-settled misunderstandings.  But when re-heated by a new passion, the human mind can be re-forged to new perspectives.  Right now, a lot of Americans' "irons" are hot, and now is the time to strike.

 

Pass out copies of CtC or WGRaM, or any of the ever-growing array of outreach tools available here.  Write to every pundit that has been energized by the present assault on the rule of law but is blind to the really big one with which he or she has been living so long as to now view it as "just the way things are".

 

UNDERSTAND, AND I MEAN REALLY UNDERSTAND, that the CtC-educated community is the stake poised over the chest of the vampire, and the vampire knows it.  A whole lot of energy and effort are being expended right now to try to blunt that stake, and dissipate the force behind it back into the "way things are" fog.  It's up to you to keep the stake sharp, and pile on the weight.

 

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“The size of a lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, because the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.  The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy victims of a big lie than a small one, because they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.  Such a form of lying would never enter their heads.  They would never credit others with the possibility of such great impudence as the complete reversal of facts.”

-Adolf Hitler

 

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Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri.  America is waking up.

 

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So What Is An Excise, Anyway?

 

Speaking of Spreading the Word, CtC Warrior Greg Sutton has written up a nice little exposition on "excise taxes" that makes a fine handout with which to alert casual contacts to the fact that there's something they need to learn about the "income" tax.  Download it here for printing and distribution; and again, visit this page for more resources.

 

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Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?

NOTHING.

 

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

 

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

-Daniel Webster

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

 

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A CtC Study-Guide

 

CtC Warrior Ike Hall has been engaged in a very virtuous project-- creating a study guide for new students of CtC.  This remains a work in progress at this point, but I think what Ike's done so far is already worth sharing with the rest of the community.  Click here to download the guide-- now complete through chapter nine!

 

For more clarifying resources click here; and click here for more tools for spreading the truth.

 

 

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Weeding The Garden

 

As is illustrated by the article above, the American legal landscape has become a tangled mess.  Once a well-tended garden, it is now an ugly, weed-infested disgrace in which evil things find plenty of places to lurk, grow, and be used against the people.  It is up to those of us who cherish the rule of law and take our responsibilities to our posterity seriously to correct this problem by pulling the weeds and making clear that error and lies will not be tolerated.

 

The way this will happen is by CtC-educated Americans, who have learned how to read the law, and how to research precedents accurately, taking charge of the legal landscape.  In legal contests with the enemies of the law, the good guys need to debunk every inapposite citation deployed against them and keep the courts honest and on-point, something too many in the legal profession apparently abandoned long ago for reasons of their own.

 

In order to facilitate this effort, I'm setting up a special space in which to post material debunking abused and misconstrued "precedents" such as the 'Lovell' rulings, 'Latham', 'Sullivan' and all the rest which litter government legal filings and have too often been taken by courts (without investigation) as actually standing for the proposition in the context of which they are cited, when knowledgeable examination actually proves this to be untrue.  I'm inviting and encouraging every Warrior to take on the task of pulling at least a few weeds by subjecting one or more cases mis-used as "precedent" by government lawyers and "ignorance tax" beneficiaries to proper analysis and investigation, and then send the results to WeedWhackers (at) losthorizons.com (fix the email address appropriately when sending).  In a short time, we should have a large collection of ready-for-prime-time, ACCURATE material concerning these cases, able to be used by pro se litigants or the attorneys of those using hired help.

 

I hope you'll all dive in here and contribute to this project.  Submissions should be in MSWord or Rich Text format, and should include the full text of the case being analyzed and any preceding cases cited within the misused ruling (going back in like manner as far as necessary).  Analysis should focus on claims of authority within the subject ruling which are not actually supported by the references cited, if any (which could be "case law" or statutes), or claims and conclusions actually contradicted by logic, Constitution, statutes or other rulings (which should be included in the submission).  Layout should be:

1.) The citation being misused by the lying contingent;

2.) A concise statement of "what is wrong with this picture" and why;

3.) The analysis proving the statement made in 2, with references cited and quoted as necessary and appropriate; and

4). an appendix containing the complete text of the analyzed case and referenced authorities.

It's our law, people, but only if we take charge of it.  For far too long, the American people have left care of this oh-so-important resource to our competitors, who have unsurprisingly twisted it to their own purposes.  There's a lot of truth in the old adage that says if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, and it's hard to imagine too many areas where it's more important that things be done right.

 

Click here to help whack the weeds!

 

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Some Important Words About The "Climate Change" Scam

 

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Glenn Greenwald has shared some good words about the "terrorism" hysteria promoted by those who would be our ruling class, and their sycophants in the mainstream media:

 

The Degrading Effects of Terrorism Fears

 

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

-H.L. Mencken

 

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'Real Americans Walk the Walk'

A CtC Film to See and Share

Spread it around to EVERYONE!!

 

If you like, just copy and paste the following into your emails to everyone in your address book:

My dear fellow American,

I've selected you to receive this email because I believe that you, too, share my concern for the direction in which our country is heading.  If I'm right about you, there is a film at  www.losthorizons.com/WtW.htm that you ought to see.

Though superficially this film seems to deal only with the income tax, that really isn't what it's about.  The real subject of this film is our decision whether to have a rule of law in America, or to sink permanently into the noxious hypocrisy of a people actually ruled (and exploited) by those who claw their way to the top of the political-class heap, while clinging to the fiction that we live in a Constitutional republic that is the "land of the free and home of the brave."

Upholding the law with respect to taxation is a critical step in forcing American governments to obey ALL the law laid down in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  The Founders of this great country recognized this and we must, too, if we want to REALLY live in the land of the free and home of the brave.  That's how I want to live, and I hope that you feel the same.

Please take the few minutes needed to watch this inspiring film, then send it to ten people (or everyone) in your address book, asking them to do the same.  Thank you for your time.

- [Your Name]

(Warriors!  Where Are YOUR testimonials?)

 

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UPDATED!

 

A Brief Introduction To The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax

(A concise presentation of some key material from ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’)

 

This important educational and outreach resource has been updated with more supporting authority and information.

 

If you have downloaded this file before, replace with the new version (updated 11-10-09)

 

If you want to win, YOU'VE got to go to the trouble to send this .pdf file to every single person in your address book, whether it's your mother, your accountant, your bowling team, whoever.

 

Even better, sit down with these folks and read this document together.

 

I guarantee that if even just a few hundred thousand Americans who are not already sensitized to the "income" tax issue get this file, knowledge of the truth about the tax will irreversibly take root in the population as a whole.

 

Seriously.  Do you want to win?  SPREAD THIS FILE AROUND!

  Doing so will accomplish more than anything that happens in a courtroom, more than any argument you make with any bureaucrat, more than ANYTHING else that you can do.

Are You Not Bothering?

Then You're Just Talking The Talk.

 

You've GOT To Walk The Walk If You Want To Win.

 

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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

 

Click here to take the test

 

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'Knowing Is Better'

A new, 2-minute CtC video to see and share!

 

Click here to see or download the .wmv version (only 2.5 megs, and thus easily sent around by email), or see and share the large-format "high-def" version on YouTube here.

 

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Also Updated:

 

It's Time To Learn The Truth About The Income Tax

 

This "Truth-About-The-Tax-In-20-Minutes" film has been updated to report a more current posted victory total.  If you've got it posted anywhere (i.e. YouTube, a personal website), please update your posted version!

 

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

 

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

 

So I'm okay with submissively letting the government:

  • take 45% of my earnings;

  • habituate itself to the conveniences of "creativity" in the writing of laws and the behavior of its officers in courtrooms in order to take that wealth from me with an appearance of legitimacy;

  • use my money to mess with foreigners on behalf of special interests, engendering hatred and contempt of all Americans-- including me;

  • use my money to finance an army of bureaucrats who rule my life for the benefit of themselves and their special-interest clients;

  • use my money to pay for an army of lawyers who will sue me or prosecute me if I try to make my own choices about who works for me and on what terms; about what I say-- and when, and how; about what I do with my own property; about whether I'm equipped to defend myself and those I love; and about how I raise and educate my children;

-- just as long as I'm left alone, dude!

 

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."

-Thomas Jefferson

 

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A Housekeeping Note Concerning State Warrior Groups

 

While doing state group updates recently I once again noticed that there are hundreds of folks whose state forums invitations are still pending due to never having received a response!  Some of these open invitations go back a year or more.

 

If you have ever applied for a state forum membership in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin and have not been getting regular emails from the group, it is because you failed to accept the invitation that arrived in your inbox from "noreply @ googlegroups.com"!  Even after you have sent your request to join your home state group as indicated at www.losthorizons.com/tax/StateGroups.htm, you must confirm your email address and accept the invitation as specified in that email from "noreply..." in order to finish the sign-up process. 

 

You can, however, correct this at any time!  Go to www.losthorizons.com/NewsletterFeaturePage.htm#JAF to learn how! 

 

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CtC Videos And Audio Resources

 

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Doing A Little High-Payoff Math

 

If each person receiving this newsletter each week distributed as few as 100 of any of the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends, neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!

 

Just like that!  In one week!

 

C'mon, people, let's roll on this!

 

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C'mon, Warriors!  We Need Videos!

 

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Don't Miss The Next ChatRoom Conference, April 14!

 

I'll be joining Roger Van Syoc and scores of other warriors in the “We The People of America” Paltalk voice and text chat room starting at 8 PM EST.  These virtual meetings are interesting, informative, educational, and just plain ENJOYABLE!  So, don’t miss this one!  Reminder; you will have to have the FREE Paltalk software installed and working on your computer to attend the meeting.  If you do not have it, go to www.paltalk.com and click on the “Download for Free” tab.  I also suggest that you get a headset with microphone if you want to be able to talk rather than just text-message.

 

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Highlights Of The Current Newsletter

 

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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite

 

USE THE SITE MAP AT www.losthorizons.com/IncomeTaxSiteMap.htm!!!

 

USE THE SITE SEARCH PAGE AT www.losthorizons.com/search.htm!!!

 

When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.

 

I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend my time...

 

Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated with, the text you are reading, follow it!

 

It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered with hyperlinks.  Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't understand.  Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent to the original text.

 

It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are confident that they are familiar with language or references within the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over included links.  I do it all the time, myself!

 

However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative material.  These other pages contain material the clear understanding of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding of the original page.  (Links to CtC, the Victories pages, CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general rule.  On the other hand, a link to the victory Highlights or 'Every Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions, are not.  The special selection of victories on those pages, and the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith, themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful attention.  Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)

 

Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.

 

Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted.  Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a month or two since your last having done so.

 

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The liberating truth about the "income" tax is turning those who would evade it

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

 

DO YOU REMEMBER those old sci-fi movies (and numerous 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' episodes) in which an evil robot or a computer collapses into terminal dysfunction after being presented with data that "does not compute"?  The machine would flail about dangerously for a bit (or smoke and shake, and threaten to explode) before finally going limp, silent and harmless.

"LOOK OUT, DOCTOR SMITH!!  DANGER!!  WARNING!!"

 

Some CtC Warriors are being drafted to play the part of the intrepid heroes of these space operas lately, with federal and state "income" tax agencies in the role of the neurotic robot:

 

Since August of 2003, when the revelations of CtC were first published, the IRS has been engaged in a desperate struggle to regain its hold of fear and confusion over those now equipped with an understanding of the long-hidden secrets of the "income" tax, and to stop that understanding from spreading.  We have seen, for instance:

  • a carefully inaccurate allusion to a typical CtC-educated filing sit as #1 on the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list for a year (then quietly get relocated to #5 and then #7 as CtC-educated filings merely increased, and continued to prevail, making the misdirection of the listing too obvious for the agency's comfort);

  • Mis-directional ploys such as the "Questionnaire" discussed here;

  • a multitude of constantly tweaked agency "FAQ" and "Truth About Frivolous Argument" publications seeking to instill doubts about what is taught about the law in CtC in the minds of careless readers, worthy of attention only in order to enjoy the agency's entertaining efforts to imply what it cannot simply declare, but wishes a naive reader to take from the reading.

We have also seen a series of transformations in the means by which the occasional loose-cannon IRS staffer attempts to persuade a CtC-educated filer to stand down.

 

For a while, fairly brazen declarations that a filing meets the statutory definition of a "frivolous return" was the popular approach.  Brazen or not, of course, these notices were always mere exercises in intimidation, which careful analysis readily revealed to be fallacious.

 

Everyone must come to his or her own conclusions, but consider: The notices strive hard to give the impression that the tax agency can unilaterally disregard the target's filing, and can tack on a penalty as well.  BUT they say that the agency will generously refrain from imposing the penalty, if only the target withdraws the original filed testimony and replaces it with what the agency wants attested-to (which, remember, the target is simultaneously being told would be legally meaningless, because the agency can unilaterally disregard that original testimony at will...).

 

What is being implied is that, either way, the amount of tax owed is going to end up being whatever the agency dictates-- the filer's return notwithstanding.  The only optional element is the additional penalty, which the agency is offering to forego out of the goodness of its heart.

 

Well, if this is true..., WHY SEND THIS "LETTER" AT ALL?  If the agency has the power to unilaterally make these decisions, there is absolutely no point to asking the target to do anything!

 

If the agency (or its client) has the power it is suggesting, its correspondent would simply get a notice along the following lines: "Dear Mr. XXX: We have calculated your tax liability for 200X, and converted $XXX of your withheld property in escrow to our ownership.  An invoice for the outstanding balance [if any] is attached.  Your filed return was frivolous, and provided us with the authority to add a $XXX penalty to your tax liability.  We have [added or foregone] this penalty." 

 

After all, if the agency has the unilateral authority it is attempting to suggest that it does, why would it care whether another return was filed?  (Readers of 'Cracking the Code...' will know the answer to that, of course.)

 

Instead, the agency DOES make this "threatening" request; and/or "proposes" calculated liabilities to which it asks its target's agreement in order to have effect (see examples of this here).  Sometimes it begins sending endless "levy notices" to the unbending filer (which notices, insofar as they concern years when only accurate, educated returns have been filed, only allege liability for a penalty, and not for any tax related to the year in question-- even when the target has received a complete refund of every penny withheld or paid-in in connection with that year...).  The sum of all of this is, of course, that the agency DOESN'T have the unilateral authority which it suggests that it does, and where accurate, educated filings are concerned, its "frivolous letters" are just exactly that: frivolous letters.

 

"Tax liability is a condition precedent to the demand. Merely demanding payment, even repeatedly, does not cause liability.  For the condition precedent of liability to be met, there must be a lawful assessment, either a voluntary one by the taxpayer or one procedurally proper by the IRS."

Bothke v. Terry, 713 F. 2d 1405, at 1414 (1983)

 

Nonetheless, as more and more warriors have forcefully pointed out to more and more IRS workers that inappropriately sending such threatening-looking letters cuts very close to the criminal under a variety of federal and state laws, the tax agency has scrambled to adjust.  For one thing, the "frivolous" notices have been carefully and repeatedly modified toward ever-more obvious legal meaninglessness, in order to deflect potential charges of constructive fraud, witness tampering, extortion, etc.

 

At the same time, these legally dicey threatening-sounding notices have been largely replaced by a comical kind of delay tactic, in which the agency sits on a filing in silence, and when contacted with an inquiry to the effect of "Where the h*ll is my property?!", responds with a claim that the agency can't find the filer's return and a request that the offended filer please send a fresh copy, or a series of "We need 45 days to look into the matter-- please be patient-- don't call us, we'll call you..." notices.

 

In this series of articles, we take a close look at many of these gimmicks, ploys and dodges in order to accurately perceive their true character, and take in and appreciate the underlying message, which is that efforts like these are engaged in only when the actor has  no real basis for its actions.

 

Enjoy.

 

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EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE- XXXIII

 

In May of 2007, CtC Warriors Joan and Lowell Thompson were faced with a bluster and bs attack by the IRS, which sought to intimidate these good Americans into perjuring themselves and declaring their non-federally-connected receipts to be so connected, and therefore taxable as "income", even after their testimony to the contrary had already been filed:

 

 

 

  Joan and Lowell, firm in their commitment to the rule of law, stood fast:

 


 

Lowell and Joan were treated to another effort a month-and-a-half later (unfortunately not preserved to share here), and again responded with firmness and confidence:

 

 

It took nearly a year, but eventually Joan and Lowell got the "surrender" by the agency to which they were entitled (and in a form we've not seen before):

 

 

It'd be nice if these bureaucrats would just forget about all these shameful ploys as soon as they recognize that they're dealing with CtC-educated Americans, instead of clinging to the hope that maybe they've stumbled upon the odd one or two that might let themselves be intimidated into collapse, wouldn't it?

 

Someday...

 

In the meantime, though,

 

Watch out for that robot!  I THINK IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE!!

By the way, this isn't the only time Lowell and Joan have had to deal with this nonsense.  They had the same ridiculous ploy tried on them the next year as well, this time for 2006.  See how THAT went on page 28 of the ever-growing Victories collection.

 

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Isn't it too bad everyone hasn't done like Joan and Lowell, and read CtC-- the exclusive source of the complete, accurate and liberating truth about the "income" tax?  You can help change that, and thereby help transform America.  Click here to learn how (while you still can-- see below...).

 

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THE PRICE OF BEING RIGHT

Corrupt elements in the federal government have tried four times over the last five years to keep the liberating truth revealed in CtC from the eyes of the American people.  Now, as another "tax season" approaches, they're trying again.

 

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Please do your part!!

 

"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

 

 

THIS WEEK'S TAX TIP

A helpful summary of certain core "income" tax dynamics, and the occasional resource for Warriors

 

A New Resource:

A CtC "Points and Authorities" Guide

shared with the community by Warrior Steven Robert Jones

 

Download the guide here.

 

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Getting Your Ducks In A Row

When you're in a shooting match where hits have been hard to come by, the problem may be that you've been dealing with a moving target...  Here's how you can stake the other side down.

 

Two years ago, CtC Warrior Patrick Mooney went into tax court suing to recover "frivolous penalties" held back from otherwise complete refunds made to him by the federal government for several years-- one of which "penalized" years was another for which he had already gotten a complete refund.  He had prepared as best he could, having never been in the court before (and operating on the expectation that the judge would know and apply the law).  After a ten-minute "trial", Patrick was told that he "failed to prosecute his case" (with no further explanation forthcoming), and his suit was dismissed.

 

On Monday, March 15, Patrick went back. The proceedings were MUCH more extended, Patrick was treated with respect, and the court has yet to issue a decision.  The difference?  For one thing, Patrick is a two-years-more-thoroughly-CtC-educated litigant and he now had some familiarity with procedures in the court.  Consequently, Patrick was able to able to handle things more effectively, generally.

 

But mostly, it was that Patrick went in with a powerful weapon.  That weapon was the first thing deployed upon the opening of proceedings, was largely read into the record immediately, and was accepted as a whole without objection by either of Patrick's adversaries in the courtroom.

 

I'm speaking of a well-crafted Request for Judicial Notice-- a prepared body of relevant points of law and fact that establishes the parameters within which the court must act.  Patrick's notice is largely a compilation of points published in CtC and/or posted on this page over the last few years (and now available in 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' along with background information and analysis).  See it below, and enjoy.  By the way, assembling the material into this notice form was largely the excellent work of Warrior Sarah Waltner.

 

REQUEST TO TAKE JUDICIAL NOTICE

 

 

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It's Not A Tax On Money-- Not Even The Money Called "Wages", Or "Income", Etc.

 

The success of the efforts to misapply the tax over the decades has rested in no small part on a sustained campaign by the tax-beneficiaries to behave as though everyone and everything is a part of the federal universe, in which every dollar changing hands is potentially a measure of a tax liability.  This ploy contributes significantly to the difficulty many people have in remembering that the tax isn't actually a tax on money-- not even on money designated as "wages" or "net earnings from self-employment", or just as "income".  Instead, the tax is on the happening of a taxable event, the extent of which is simply measured by the money changing hands.

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

The biggest problem arising from confusion on this point is a tendency to let tax-related arguments, such as those in Tax Court, revolve around whether receipts have been had and/or what receipts are to be called, rather than on the real issue: whether taxable activity has been engaged in.  The result is the exploitation by the adversaries of the truth of the natural blurriness attendant upon the law's use of terms mimicking common words, while having more specialized meanings in the context of the law.

 

For instance, we've all seen sonorous declarations by judges that "wages are income".  Of course, what qualify as "wages" in the context of the tax laws certainly ARE "income", but when a declaration of this sort is made, even those who know the difference between "wages" as defined in the tax laws and 'wages', the common word, can easily let the meanings of each confusingly blend with the connotations of the other.  For those who DON'T already know the difference between the word and the term, sonorous declarations of this sort are entirely misleading, and are taken as a declaration by the judge (or whoever) that 'wages' (under the common meaning of the word) are "income" (as in, "taxable").

 

For that matter, based on this declaration alone, it is impossible to tell what the declarant even means.  We all like to imagine that judges actually know the law, and would, if saying such a thing, simply mean to be understood as saying that "wages" as defined in the tax law are "income", but judges often DON'T know the law, and have themselves been misled by just this sort of statement issuing from the mouths of OTHER judges (or even just from the tax agencies, whose interest in cultivating misunderstanding on this point is obvious).

 

Consequently, it is very important for everyone's clarity of thinking, and productive argumentation, to keep firmly in mind that what matters is not what has been received, or what it is called.  Calling receipts by their proper labels is a form of shorthand, and a useful one in many circumstances, but it presumes that everyone knows how to translate the label used into its proper, complete meaning, and will automatically (and honorably) do so.  Neither of these things can be relied upon, and prudence dictates that the conveniences of shorthand be foregone when accuracy counts.

 

On those occasions, such as in a courtroom, the wise warrior will recognize that when an allegation of the receipt of "wages" is being made, what is really being said is that any money involved was received as a consequence of engaging in a taxable activity, as opposed to money received when NOT engaging in a taxable activity.  That is, the fact that money may have changed hands is, by itself, entirely irrelevant to the foundational issue, which is whether one was doing something upon which the federal government has the authority to impose a tax.  Only IF it can be proven that one was engaged in a federally-taxable activity (and one taxable without apportionment) does the receipt of money then arise as a secondary matter (and then only insofar as particular receipts can be tied to that activity and then be used as a measure of its extent).

 

(For some related observations, see 'A Wage By Any Other Name Is Taxed The Same' in 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?')

 

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About Lemons, Bananas, And The Occasional Kumquat...

 

I've recently seen an increasing use of a cheap semantic ploy by the "ignorance tax" beneficiaries-- the deliberate mis-characterization of educated filings as being claims that the filer (or his "income") is "exempt" from the tax, rather than what is really being declared, which is that the earnings involved aren't "income" at all (and therefore not only needn't be "exempted", but actually CAN'T be, since they are not within the tax's scope in the first place).   For instance, in a brief filed a few weeks ago by the Department of Justice (sic) attorney in response to a lawsuit brought by a CtC Warrior to compel the processing of his return, the govt. flack writes, "Plaintiff... ...believes that he... ...is exempt from the application of the income tax to his wages and other income."

 

This ploy is a very calculated effort to steer the thinking of anyone reading this brief (such as the judge) in order to evade what is REALLY being said by the filer (since if what the filer is really saying is squarely addressed, the "ignorance tax" beneficiaries have no argument to make).  Happily, it takes but a moment to expose the nature of this subterfuge...

 

Here's a good relevant definition of "exempt":

EXEMPT, v.  To relieve, excuse, or set free from a duty or service imposed upon the general class to which the individual exempted belongs; as to exempt from militia service.  Jones v. Wells Fargo Co. Express, 83 Misc. 508, 145 N.Y.S. 601, 602.  See 1 St. at Large, 272.

Black's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition

As can be readily understood in light of this definition, earnings that are not "within the general class of "income"" don't need to be "exempted" in order to not be subject to the "income" tax, and a filing that declines to list some particular earnings in the "income" lines on a tax form isn't treating those earnings as "exempt" (nor is the filer suggesting that he is "exempt from the application of the tax to his wages or other income").  Such a filing is simply treating those earnings as "not income"-- that is, as not within the general class from which they even COULD be "exempted".

 

Here's an analogy that should help make this clear: Consider someone who possesses six lemons and six bananas and who is asked how many lemons he has.  When he reports "Six", he is not "exempting" the bananas, he is simply recognizing that the bananas aren't lemons, and haven't been asked about at all.

 

A more complex formulation doesn't change this principle, by the way.  For instance, imagine that our intrepid respondent is asked about how many pieces of fruit he has, if "fruit" is defined as follows, "For purposes of this inquiry, the term "fruit" includes lemons, oranges and kumquats."  Our knowledgeable respondent would STILL answer, "Six", and he STILL wouldn't be "exempting" his bananas, because they STILL wouldn't be within the scope of the inquiry...

 

Remember, when given a definition as in this example, "fruit" no longer has anything to do with 'fruit', per se.  Were the term meant to encompass "anything that is a fruit", it wouldn't have been given a special definition to begin with-- because that's what the word means WITHOUT a special definition.

 

Further, specifying certain varieties of fruit in the custom definition emphasizes that the term is not intended to encompass everything that happens to be 'fruit' per the dictionary definition of the word.  If the term is intended to encompass everything that happens to be 'fruit' per the dictionary definition of the word, those specified varieties of fruit are already within that definition.  They can only be being specified because they are being DISTINGUISHED from "everything that happens to be fruit", creating a new term that is explicitly NOT "everything that happens to be fruit".

 

Instead, "fruit" is now a term of special meaning that happens to be spelled the same as 'fruit', and it means "lemons, oranges and kumquats".  Even if we apply the "limited expansion" effect to the term "includes", such as is provided for at 26 USC 7701(c) (allowing the expansion of the definition to other things of like kind and class as those listed), looking at the characteristics of those things listed we find that they are all spherical and citric (while also happening to be fruits).  This make our class one of spherical, citrus fruits.  Thus, bananas, which, while also happening to be fruits, are neither spherical nor citric and therefore cannot be deemed included.

 

Obviously, there is nothing difficult about any of this, and it is inconceivable that the mis-characterization of an educated filing as somehow being an assertion of "exemption" is a matter of innocent mis-understanding.  On the contrary, it is entirely deliberate, and the message it delivers should be lost on no one: Mis-characterizations like this are deployed because the law-defiers have no argument against what a CtC-educated filing, claim or argument is actually saying.

 

For more on this subject, see WeedWhackers

 

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What They Said About He Said-She Said

 

An allegation on an "information return" is "reasonably disputed" merely by a sworn rebuttal, each being of the same legal stature-- Joe's affidavit v. Sam's affidavit.  A tribunal is not in a position to unilaterally honor one and dishonor the other.  As held by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in reversing a Tax Court decision and ruling a deficiency determination invalid:

 

“[T]he Commissioner's determination that Portillo had received unreported income of $24,505 from Navarro was arbitrary. The Commissioner's determination was based solely on a Form 1099 Navarro sent to the I.R.S. indicating that he paid Portillo $24,505 more than Portillo had reported on his return. The Commissioner merely matched Navarro's Form 1099 with Portillo's Form 1040 and arbitrarily decided to attribute veracity to Navarro and assume that Portillo's Form 1040 was false.”

 "Therefore, the judgment below regarding unreported income must be reversed."  Portillo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Fifth Circuit, 932 F.2d 1128 (1991)

 

This principle finds expression in several statutes.  For instance, see the language at 26 USC 7491:

26 USC § 7491 -Burden of proof:

(a) Burden shifts where taxpayer produces credible evidence

(1) General rule

If, in any court proceeding, a taxpayer introduces credible evidence with respect to any factual issue relevant to ascertaining the liability of the taxpayer for any tax imposed by subtitle A or B, the Secretary shall have the burden of proof with respect to such issue.

(2) Limitations

Paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to an issue only if—

(A) the taxpayer has complied with the requirements under this title to substantiate any item;

(B) the taxpayer has maintained all records required under this title and has cooperated with reasonable requests by the Secretary for witnesses, information, documents, meetings, and interviews;

This section is nicely explained by the 10th Circuit Court as follows:

“Credible evidence,” as used in § 7491(a)(1), means “the quality of evidence, which after critical analysis, the court would find sufficient upon which to base a decision on the issue if no contrary evidence were submitted.” Blodgett v. Comm’r, 394 F.3d 1030, 1035 (8th Cir. 2005) (emphasis and quotation omitted).”  Rendall v. CIR, 535 F.3d 1221 (10th Circuit, 2008).

Plainly, 4852s and 1099 rebuttals meet this standard and would be sufficient for a decision in the absence of contrary evidence.  In fact, such forms have been found by the IRS to be sufficient upon which to base a decision-- in the filer's favor, and IN THE FACE of contrary evidence-- thousands of times...

 

Reading these rulings, I can't help but think about those "frivolous" delays to which some are subjected, based on nothing more than that a filing doesn't match an "information return"...

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73 Am Jur 2d § 146 Operation of legislative definitions, generally

Research References

West’s Key Number Digest, Statutes 223.1

 

The lawmaking body’s own construction of its language, by means of definitions of the term employed, should be followed in the interpretation of the act or section to which it relates and is intended to apply.1  By the same token, the courts should not enlarge statutory definitions so as to include a situation or a condition which it might be assumed the legislature would have covered by an enlarged definition if its existence had been contemplated.2  A statutory definition supersedes the common-law,3 colloquial,4 commonly accepted, dictionary or judicial definition.5  In this regard, where statute itself contains a definition of a word used therein, the definition controls, however contrary to the ordinary meaning of the word it may be,6 and the term may not be given the meaning in which it is employed in another statute, although the two may be in pari material.7  Where the legislature has defined words which are employed in a statute, its definitions are binding on the courts since the legislature has the right to give such signification as it deems proper to any word or phrase used by the statute, irrespective of the relationship of the definition to other terms.8  Furthermore, where a word that already has a definite, fixed, and unambiguous meaning is redefined in a statute, the definition must be taken literally by the courts.9

 

1Curle v. Superior Court, 24 Cal. 4th 1057, 103 Cal. Rptr. 2d 751, 16 P.3d 166 (2001); State v. Olsen, 618 N.WE.2d 346 (Iowa 2000); Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Parklawn Manner, Inc., 41 Ohio St. 2d 47, 70 Ohio Op. 2d 148, 322 N.E.2d 642 (1975); Devers v. Scranton City, 308 Pa. 13, 161 A. 540, 85 A.L.R. 692 (1932).

 

2Lenox Realty Co. v. Hackett, 122 Conn. 143, 187 A. 895, 107 A.L.R. 1306 (1936); Robertson v. Western Baptist Hosp., 267 S.W.2d 395 (Ky. 1954).

 

3Rayonier, Inc. v. Polson, 400 F.2d 909 (9th cir. 1968); 1137 18th Street Associates, Ltd. Partnership v. District of Columbia, 769 A.2d 155 (D.C. 2001).

 

4Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Lenroot, 323 U.S. 490, 65 S. Ct. 335, 89 L. Ed. 414 (1945).

 

5Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914, 120 S. Ct. 2597, 147 L. Ed. 2d 743 (2000); Driscoll v. General Nutrition Corp., 252 Conn. 215, 752 A.2d 1p069 (2000); Erlandson v. Genesee County Employees’ Retirement Com’n, 337 Mich. 195, 59 N.W.2d 389 (1953); Appeal of Clayton-Marcus Co., Inc., 286 N.C. 215, 210 S.E.2d 199 (1974); Minnix v. State, 1955 OK CR 37, 282 P.2d 772 (Okla. Crim. App. 1955).

 

6Appeal of Clayton-Marcus Co., Inc., 286 N.C. 215, 210 S.E.2d 199 (1974).

The general Assembly’s own construction of its language as provided by definitions, controls in the application of a statute, and such definition will be given great weight against any claim that application of the statutory definition defeats the general purpose of the statute.  Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Parklawn Manner, Inc., 41 Ohio St. 2d 47, 70 Ohio Op. 2d 148, 322 N.E.2d 642 (1975).

 

7Davison v. F. W. Woolworth Co., 186 Ga. 663, 198 S.E. 738, 118 A.L.R. 1363 (1938).

 

8People v. Dugan, 91 Misc. 2d 239, 397 N.Y.S.2d 878 (County Ct. 1977).

 

9Young v. O’Keefe, 246 Iowa 1182, 69 N.W.2d 534 (1955); State v. Standard Oil Co., 61 Or. 438, 123 P. 40 (1912).

 

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An Excellent Response To Tax-Agency Frivolities

 

Here's Another, More Abbreviated Approach...

 

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The Five Most Powerful Things You Can Do About The Systematic Misapplication Of The Tax

  • Study CtC and this website diligently and thoroughly.

  • Speak your educated truth and then STAND YOUR GROUND.

  • Send the Lost Horizons newsletter to EVERYONE in your address book.

  • Don't waste one minute looking anywhere EXCEPT in CtC or on this site for knowledge or understanding of the tax.

  • If you are on the receiving end of any assertions listed or addressed in this section of losthorizons.com, promptly send the appropriate correction to your correspondent, along with firm instructions to read CtC and never circulate such nonsense again.  In short, don't tolerate, and don't contribute to, a "Tower of Babel" effect.

Although it is very contrary to my nature (and my comfort) to have to point it out, it is a simple fact that if anyone else out there-- regardless of their "credentials" or their apparent sincerity-- actually knew what they were talking about regarding the tax, they would have a sustained body of evidence posted which demonstrates the accuracy of their notions.  (Not just the alleged "evidence" which led them to their notions, mind you, such as a collection of excerpted statutory or regulatory sections, but evidence of the practical, positive outcomes of the implementation of those notions...*)  They do not, of course, because their notions are simply incorrect, no matter how sincerely or loudly they may be proclaimed.

 

Time spent looking at material generated or posted by anyone pushing notions about the tax not found in CtC is worse than time wasted.  It is time spent having one's clear view of the reality of the tax and everything related to the tax darkened-- something that will have to be undone later at the cost of more time and often a great deal of effort.  (By the way, don't confuse an inability to understand what one is seeing with a lack of a clear view.  Sometimes understanding lags a fair bit behind the opening up of one's window.  But it will come, as is made clear here.  For more on this, see this page.)

 

Further, the proliferation, and toleration, of error serves to delay the adoption of the truth by your neighbors, family, friends, co-workers, and, perhaps most importantly, those who will thus continue to burden you with erroneous allegations about your earnings.  Why abide this delay, and these ill effects?  Because you persist in harboring your own doubts about what you have learned in CtC, perhaps due to the intense tax-beneficiary and "tax honesty guru" assaults being made on the book for the past five years?

 

Having your own doubts is fine (as long as you continue to study so as to put them to rest).  But that does not justify turning to, or tolerating, either outright demonstrable errors or those who promote what they like to suggest are "alternative or supplemental theories" about the tax or the manner in which the law works, which are somehow never supported by concrete evidence of their soundness.

 

The facts are this simple: Those who focus exclusively on CtC get it right and win victories.  Those who allow clutter from elsewhere into their minds don't.  At best such folks delay getting it right for as long as it takes to purge the clutter; and at worst, they just never get it.

 

(*In anticipation of what some might attempt to respond with to this regrettably necessary plain speaking, I'll point out that managing to be "left alone" for some indeterminate time-- which might end tomorrow-- by an IRS that is happily banking every penny withheld either as nominal "federal income tax" or as "Social Security" or "Medicare" taxes in the meantime hardly counts as meaningful evidence of a practical, positive outcome for anyone.  Nor does merely succeeding in avoiding property loss by virtue of hunkering down in the shadows of the underground economy, nor managing to dodge a criminal conviction by convincing a jury that one was not acting willfully in doing whatever it was one was charged with.)

 

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THE PRICE OF BEING RIGHT

Corrupt elements in the federal government have tried four times over the last five years to keep the liberating truth revealed in CtC from the eyes of the American people.  Now, as another "tax season" approaches, they're trying again.

 

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"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

 

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-James Madison

 

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

 

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-Mark C. Phillips, JD

 

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-Jerry Arnowitz, JD

 

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-Michael Carver, JD

 

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-John O'Neil Green, JD

 

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

-Eric Smithers, JD

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 20- In 1861, Robert E. Lee resigns his United States Army commission and devotes himself to the defense of Virginia.  In 1912, Tiger Stadium in Detroit and Fenway Park in Boston open for business.  In 1916, the Chicago Cubs play their first game at Wrigley Field.  In 1918, the Red Baron shoots down his 79th and 80th dogfight opponents, his last before being killed himself the next day.  In 1999, two students kill or wound 37 unarmed students and teachers at Columbine High School in Colorado.

 

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

 

 

 

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

--  Uncle Remus

 

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-United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

 

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All That It Takes To Prove Obamacare Unconstitutional...

...is a proper understanding of the apportionment clause and the 16th Amendment.

 

There could be no better example of a direct tax than a tax imposed on an American for simply being alive, but without health insurance.  Twists and turns of its apologists attempting to evade this reality notwithstanding, if a tax can be laid as a consequence of not having bought an insurance policy, but the tax is deemed not applicable if one has, then the price of the policy is a tax (just as the tax is the price of a policy), and that tax is upon one simply for being alive.

 

As such, the tax is direct and must be apportioned among the several states per Article 1, section 9 of the United States Constitution, and that this is so is not mitigated by the 16th Amendment.  To fully understand this, read the following document closely: www.losthorizons.com/Intro.pdf.

 

Then, pass this little article along to everyone you know.  There will only be a limited number of shots at this outrage in the courts, and if this key point is not understood by those bringing these suits in the beginning, and is therefore overlooked, those contests might not go the way they should.

 

By the way, doesn't it strike you as kind of sadly funny that many people have recently made much of the fact that members of Congress didn't read the 'healthcare reform act" before signing it, and yet won't bother reading the tax laws before signing their own tax forms?

 

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

 

 

Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 21- In 1836, Republic of Texas forces under Sam Houston defeat Mexican General Santa Anna in the Battle of San Jacinto.  In 1944, France recognizes the right of women to vote.  In 1975, Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam, flees Saigon.  In 1989, 100,000 students fill Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

 

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

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

 

A Word To The Law-Defiers...

FOR SOME TIME NOW you've gotten away with it.  You've bled the public treasury; you've bled the American military; you've defied the Constitution and the rule of law in service to your own ambitions and interests.  But the fact that you've gotten away with it so far doesn't mean that the law has changed.  It hasn't.

 

Everything that was unconstitutional before your creative excesses remains so, and all of those creative excesses have been, and remain, illegal.

 

For instance, consider the "retroactive immunity" pretenses intended to shield the nation-wide warrantless wiretap teleco-conspirators.

 

DON'T make the mistake of thinking that Congressional and Presidential action on this bill has actually retroactively immunized anyone from anything.  It hasn't.

 

Neither Congress nor the president have the authority to retroactively immunize anybody, and especially not from civil liability to other people.  Even if the Constitution didn't prohibit such a grotesquely corrupt idea, when all is said and done, NO ONE can be relieved of his or her legal obligations to ME by the decision of ANY third party that isn't on a jury.

 

However much any corrupt political hacks want to behave as though they have shielded themselves and anyone else from the consequences of their joint lawlessness, it's only a dream that's due to evaporate as more of America wakes up.  The moment the rule of law is fully restored, THE LAWLESS ARE TOAST.

 

The same goes for anyone else imagining that they will find an enduring shield for their bad behavior in some creative, convenient "interpretation" of the law or "assumption of authority" on any other front.  NO.

 

When the time comes, "Hey, I had this Justice Department memorandum!" won't cut it.  Nor will, "I was just following orders!"

 

When the time comes, nothing will "cut it" but the law having its way.  And it will. 

 

I'm sorry to say that due to the characteristics of the new server I began using at the end of September, 2007, hit logging for the entire site is no longer possible.  However, just so you know:

 

CtC-related hits between April 1, 2006 (when logging began under the old server) and August 31, 2007 totaled 17,277,595!

 

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

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

 

Regarding "Tax Reform"

 

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

-Thomas Paine

 

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

 

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

 

REGARDING MONEY

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

April 22- In 1509, Henry VIII takes the throne of England.  In 1898, the United States Navy initiates a blockade of Cuban ports in an opening move of the Spanish-American War.  In 1912, Pravda begins publication in St. Petersburg, Russia.  In 2000, federal agents seize six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez from his relatives in Miami in order to return him to the island prison.

 

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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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The Lost Horizons News

Current Events and Continuing Education for April 23 through May 6, 2010

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

-Ezra Pound

 

Mid-Edition Update, April 30, 2010

About Liars Who Seek To Suppress The Truth-- Updated!

John Stossel Wants To Hear From CtC Victors

Ike Hall's CtC Study Guide Adds Two Chapters

Uncle Jay Explains "Tax Day"

A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This Site

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

Illuminating Anniversaries Of This Week

April 30- In 1492, Christopher Columbus receives his royal commission.  In 1789, George Washington takes the oath of office as the first President of the United States.  Unlike modern holders of the office (and a few bad moves during his tenure notwithstanding), he means it.  In 1803, the United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million.  In 1812, the Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th of the several states, styling itself 'Louisiana'.  In 1900, Hawaii is declared a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.  In 1900, Casey Jones wrecks the Cannonball Express.  In 1927, the first United States federal prison for women opens.  In 1938, Porky Pig goes on his first rabbit hunt.  In 1945, Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide.  In 1993, the World Wide Web goes public.  In 2004, photos of grotesque detainee abuse by officials at the United States Abu Ghraib prison facility in Iraq make it to the media.  In 2009, Chrysler files for bankruptcy.

 

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

 

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FOREWORD

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

 

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

-Samuel Adams

 

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

 

Surely You Didn't Think It Would Be Easy...

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

-Morpheus

 

"Every man dies. Not every man really lives."

-William Wallace

 

"I think that if any good thing shall go forward, something must be adventured."

-Thomas More

 

"I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth [unless] the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue."

-William Tyndale

 

“And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the whim of others?”

-Galileo Galilei

 

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

-Mahatma Gandhi

 

"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

 

"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe?  Expediency asks the question - is it politic?  Vanity asks the question - is it popular?

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

-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days."

-Nelson Mandela

 

"If you perceive that your government is doing wrong and you do nothing, it may well be that your government is corrupt, but it is a certainty that you are."

-Pete Hendrickson

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From My Allocution:

 

"I don’t believe that there is a single person in this room who doesn’t know full well that I firmly and sincerely believe what I say I do about the law.  The charge that I said things I don’t believe to be true when I filled out my refund claims is a shameful lie on that basis alone.

 

"It is a ludicrous lie, as well, in light of the three books and countless articles I have written about the subject, the scores of speeches and lectures I have delivered across the country over the years, and the adamant consistency of my behavior and demeanor over years of vicious assaults by a government which finds itself inconvenienced by my expression of what I know and believe to be true about the law.

 

"What’s more, I don’t believe there are too many people in this room who don’t also know that what I believe to be true about the law is, in fact, correct, just as do tens of thousands of other Americans, all of whom have made the same intense study of the law that I have, and have come to the same conclusions and who have, like me, found themselves compelled to act forthrightly in accordance with what they have learned, even in the face of Leviathan’s ire.

 

"In particular, I believe that the people sitting at the prosecution table know perfectly well that my beliefs are completely sincere.  I’m sure they have studied every film ever made of me speaking on the subject of the tax and law, and have read all my voluminous writing on these matters.  They can have no credible doubts about this.  It is likely that having done so, by now they also know the truth about the law.

 

"Consequently, just bringing these charges against me has been the practice of a lie.  But lies are what have characterized everything the government has done in this case, which has been distinguished by a complete lack of evidence supporting the prosecution’s burdens of proof, along with a host of self-serving assumptions and a vigorous attempt at character assassination.

 

 "I have had no adverse contact with the law of any kind life long, except in connection with my opposition to what I once saw as the illegal application of the tax-- in response to which I took a decades long stand on principle, at considerable risk and expense.

 

"Since learning that the tax is Constitutional and properly limited as such, I have acted in strict accordance with the law, again at enormous personal expense, and in the face of intense, corrupt and unscrupulous governmental opposition.  This is not opposition because I am wrong; it is because I am right, and my being right is enormously inconvenient to the government.

 

"Were the government able to produce a single authority for the proposition that all earnings of every kind are “income”, or are subject to unapportioned taxation by the federal government, it would do so, and fast enough to spin heads.  Indeed, were there any such authority, [DoJ attorney] Mark Daly would have it tattooed on his forehead.

 

"There is no such authority, of course, and in all the years of attempting to discourage me from acting on what I know to be the law, no government actor, judges included, has ever produced any.

 

"On the contrary, every authority, including the federal courts, agrees that the tax DOES NOT fall on “every species of revenue” (or on every species of activity).  As such, some activities (or the revenue they produce) are taxable, and some are not.  Notably, and all other considerations notwithstanding, if a tax on any particular activity would meet the qualifications of a capitation or other direct tax, that activity or the revenue it produces is in the “not” category.

 

"The statutes as written conform precisely to this limitation.  Further, those statutes, (and fundamental due process) afford me the opportunity to examine my activities and decide whether they are of the one sort or the other, and to register my conclusions and look after my own interests in a legally-meaningful manner.  This is all that I have done in regard to the acts for which I have been charged in this case.

 

"The government does not want me to exercise my right to come to my conclusions and register them in a legally-meaningful manner.  Instead, it wants me to believe, or at least behave as though, I am prohibited from consideration of the law, or from registering my conclusions in a legally-meaningful manner, but must instead adopt without question the conclusions reached by others about my activities, which conclusions happen to favor the government’s interests.

 

"In furtherance of this corrupt purpose, the government has attacked me relentlessly, but its attacks do not illuminate any misconduct on my part.  Instead, they simply represent sustained misconduct on the government’s part.

 

"Last week, a federal magistrate judge admitted in a hearing that neither the government nor any court can force anyone to sign a document containing testimony not their own.  The same judge then spent the next twenty minutes ruminating about how a document could be designed in order to evade and thwart this Constitutionally-recognized, repeatedly Supreme-Court-affirmed prohibition, in order to force my wife and me to create evidentiary support for a relationship between our earnings and the income tax for which the government itself can produce no evidence whatsoever.

 

"This judge then bizarrely declared that my objection to his scheme reflected MY need to brush up on Constitutional law!  This is a great example of why I extend respect based on the behavior of the individual office-holder, not on the mere fact of holding an office.

 

"The government talks much about the “public fisc”, and its administrative burdens.  The very fact that these things are mentioned reveals the lack of virtue in the government’s arguments and positions.  What place do these things have in the arena of evidence, truth, law and justice?

 

"How the court treats me is properly based solely on the truth about my acts, the court’s lawful jurisdiction, and the relevant provisions of law.  What would be convenient or advantageous to the government, or anyone else, has no place here.

 

"Nonetheless, unable to make its case based on the facts, the government is attempting to suborn the court into stepping outside the law and doing me extra harm on the basis that doing so offers some practical benefit to the state.  Even were the benefit sought not simply that of more successful suppression of the freedom of others to read and act on the law themselves, this would be wrong.

 

"It is also wrong because it inherently amounts to a request that I be punished for my speech.  As in everything it has done in this case, the government acts here with callous disdain for the Constitution, and invites the court to do the same.

 

"At one point in the trial last October, you [Judge Rosen] told the jury not to worry about your getting the law wrong, because if you did, there is a court in Cincinnati that can fix things.  This is true, of course.  But I ask you to get it right now, and spare me and my family any further pain from this abusive assault.  We have all suffered too much already."

 

DETROIT NEWS, April 19, 2010: Chief U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen bristled when a courtroom full of Hendrickson's supporters burst into applause after the defendant's pre-sentencing speech...

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Judge Rosen DIDN'T get it right, now.  He sentenced me to two years and nine months, all of which is based on two factors.  One was the notion that I "obstructed justice" by telling the jury that I believe the "civil case" ruling against my wife and me to be a void judgment.  This conclusion was deemed by the judge to be too incredible to be sincere (or so he said, anyway), despite the fact that I argued this point in a petition to the Supreme Court and that this case and judgment featured (among other defects):

  • no evidence presented by the plaintiff, thus making it an action brought in bad faith,

  • a violation of the summary judgment rules in the government's favor,

  • no hearing,

  • denial of a jury trial,

  • an unconstitutional order to testify to the government's specifications,

  • a government request and subsequent "judgment" that we be held liable to a tax that has still never been assessed, now some seven and eight years, respectively, after the periods involved,

  • being upheld by the Sixth Circuit with its own tortured distortion of the summary judgment rules so embarrassing that it refused to publish its ruling even after the DoJ took the unusual step of moving it to do so.

I guess I just don't understand the meaning of "void judgment"-- although the courts describe it as:

"Judgment is a void judgment if court that rendered judgment lacked jurisdiction of the subject matter, or of the parties, or acted in a manner inconsistent with due process." Klugh v. U.S., 620 F.Supp. 892 (D.S.C. 1985). Black's Dictionary of Law, Sixth Edition.  Also see Fed Rules Civ. Proc., Rule 60(b)(4).

Oops! There I go again-- paying attention to a court that isn't the one trying to attack me!

 

The other factor involved in the sentence calculation was the government's contention as to the "tax loss I [allegedly] intended to cause the government", in regard to which the DoJ proposed a number.  An "examination" pretense was deployed in arriving at that number, but it involved merely taking W-2 allegations at face value and calculating the tax that would theoretically be owed if the government were capable of proving those allegations, something it has never attempted to do either during this latest assault or in Tax Court.  Taxes speculatively ascribed to my wife's earnings and my refund claims against Michigan during the years involved were gratuitously added to the resulting figure in an effort to make it, and the corresponding sentence, as high as possible.

 

However (and unsurprisingly), no one at the IRS or DoJ dared to actually subscribe to anything in regard to any of this, and still no tax has ever been found to be owing for the years involved.  Click here for the evidence on that score-- the certificates of assessment you'll see remain the latest and greatest.

 

On to the appellate court.

 

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 1- In 1328, England recognizes Scotland as an independent state after 32 years of attempted conquest.  In 1931, the Empire State Building in New York City is dedicated.  In 1950, Guam is organized as a "State of the United States".  In 1960, the U2 spyplane piloted by Francis Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union.  In 1971, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) is formed.  In 2003, George W. Bush declares: "Mission accomplished!" in Iraq.  In 2006, the government of Puerto Rico closes its Department of Education and 42 other government agencies in responsible recognition of its fiscal situation.

 

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

-Edmund Burke

 

Green Zone

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Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?

NOTHING.

 

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

 

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

-Daniel Webster

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

 

 

Warriors, don't miss the every-other-Wednesday PalTalk e-conference!  The next get-together is May 12!  Click here for details.

 

'Real Americans Walk the Walk'

A New CtC Film to See and Share

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"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers."

– Thomas Jefferson

 

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'Knowing Is Better'

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 2- In 1670, Charles II of England grants a perpetual charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to ply the fur-trade from North America.  In 1863, General Stonewall Jackson is accidentally wounded by his own troops, and dies of complications eight days later.  In 1885, Good Housekeeping magazine goes on sale.  In 1918, General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company.  In 1932, Jack Benny's radio show hits the airwaves.  In 1945, Berlin falls to the Soviet Army.  In 1998, the European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.

 

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-James Madison

 

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

 

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THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDED READING:

"I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves...too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: 'Our country, right or wrong!'  They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country--when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right.'"
-Senator Carl Schurz, October 17, 1899

 

Hating the government finally goes mainstream

By Chris Stirewalt

Three years ago, the Republican establishment piled scorn on the presidential candidacy of Ron Paul.

Today, he is in a statistical tie with President Obama in 2012 polling. His son, an ophthalmologist who has never run for elective office, is well ahead of not only the GOP's handpicked candidate for Senate in Kentucky but also both Democratic contenders -- all statewide officeholders.

What happened? Did America suddenly develop an insatiable appetite for 74-year-old, cranky congressmen from Texas? Is the gold standard catching on?

Paul will not likely be the next president. And his son still faces the most arduous part of his journey as Democrats spend millions to paint him as soft on defense, lax on drug enforcement and too radical on welfare programs.

But there's no doubt that hating the government and the powerful interests that pull Washington's strings has gone from the radical precincts of the Right and Left to the mainstream.

It turns out that watching Goldman Sachs, the United Auto Workers, public employee unions and a raft of other vampires drain the treasury at America's weakest moment in a generation will make a person pretty hacked off.

After Barack Obama's election, Democrats assumed that the American people were battered, bruised and ready for a morphine drip of European-style socialism. Republicans, shocked by their stunning reversals, figured the Democrats were right and started looking for technocrats of their own.

And in a political system fueled by special-interest money, it was hard for the leaders of major parties to imagine anything other than an activist government. After all, if you pay for someone to get elected, you don't expect him to just sit there.

Just 18 months ago the leaders of both parties were quite sure that Obama would be the popular, transformative president he aspires to be. The Republicans who emerged from the wreckage of November were certain to look a lot more like Charlie Crist and Mitt Romney than Marco Rubio and Ron Paul.

But Crist's embrace of Obamanomics seems to have utterly destroyed his chances at a Senate seat that was once his for the taking. Romney, considered a near lock for the 2012 Republican nomination, has seen his candidacy badly damaged by a populist revolt against the passage of a national health care plan that looks like the one he designed for Massachusetts.

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Gods and Monsters

The Greeks had it right.  When you live on Mount Olympus, your view of humanity is qualitatively different.  The Greek gods, after all, lied to, stole from, lusted for, and punished humanity without mercy, while taking the planet for a spin in a manner that we mortals would consider amoral, if not immoral.  And it didn't bother them a bit.  They felt – so Greek mythology tells us – remarkably free to intervene from the heights in the affairs of whichever mortals caught their attention and, in the process, to do whatever took their fancy without thinking much about the nature of human lives.  If they sometimes felt sympathy for the mortals whose lives they repeatedly threw into havoc, they were incapable of real empathy.  Such is the nature of the world when your view is the Olympian one and what you see from the heights are so many barely distinguishable mammals scurrying below.  The details of their petty lives naturally blur and seem less than important.

In the last week, we've seen – literally viewed – a modern example of what it means in our day to act from the heights, and we've read about another striking example of the same.  The website WikiLeaks released a decrypted July 2007 video of two U.S. Apache helicopters attacking Iraqis on a street in Baghdad.  At least 12 Iraqis, including two employees of the news agency Reuters, a photographer and his driver, were killed in the incident, and two children in the vehicle of a good Samaritan who stopped to pick up casualties and died in the process, were also wounded.

Without a doubt, that video is a remarkable 17-minute demo of how to efficiently slaughter tiny beings milling about below.  There is no way American helicopter crews could know just who was walking down there – Sunni or Shiite, insurgent or shopper, Baghdadis with intent to harm Americans or Baghdadis paying little attention to two of the helicopters then so regularly buzzing the city.  Were they killers, guards, bank clerks, unemployed idlers, Baathist Party members, religious fanatics, café owners?  Who could tell from such a height?  But the details mattered little.

The Reuters cameraman crouches behind a building looking, camera first, around a corner, and you hear an American in an Apache yell, "He's got an RPG!" – mistaking his camera with its long-range lens for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.  The pilot, of course, doesn't know that it's a Reuters photographer down there.  Only we do.  (And when his death did become known, the military carefully buried the video.)

Along with that video comes a soundtrack in which you hear the Americans check out the rules of engagement (ROE), request permission to fire, and banter about the results.  ("Hahaha. I hit 'em"; "Oh yeah, look at those dead bastards..."; and of the two wounded children, "Well, it's their fault bringing their kids into a battle.")  Such callous chit-chat is explained away in media articles here by the need for "psychological distance" of those whose job it is to kill, but in truth that's undoubtedly the way you talk when you, and only you, have god-like access to the skies and can hover over the rest of humanity, making preparations to wipe out lesser beings.

Similarly, in pre-dawn darkness on February 12th in Paktia Province, eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. Special Operations team dropped from the skies into a village near Gardez.  There, in a world that couldn't be more distant from their lives, possibly using an informant's bad tip, American snipers on rooftops killed an Afghan police officer ("head of intelligence in one of Paktia's most volatile districts"), his brother, and three women – a pregnant mother of 10, a pregnant mother of six, and a teenager.  They then evidently dug the bullets out of the women's bodies, bound and gagged their bodies, and filed a report claiming that the dead men were Taliban militants who had murdered the women – "honor killings" – before they arrived. (This was how the American press, generally reliant on military handouts, initially reported the story.)

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Held Over Recommendations:

 

 

Right-Wing Obamacare

by Daniel McCarthy

 

'Killing America's Kids'

by Fred Reed

 

'The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude'

by Étienne de la Boétie

 

'Too Legit To Quit'

by Myron Weber

 

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

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 3- In 1802, Washington, D.C. is incorporated.  In 1901, a fire destroys much of Jacksonville, Florida.  Unhindered by FEMA, the city is quickly rebuilt.  In 1916, captured leaders of Irish Easter Risings are executed by the British.  In 1921, West Virginia imposes the first union state sales tax.  In 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins trials of Japanese officials for offenses such as authorizing the waterboarding and other inhumane acts to which captured enemy combatants were subjected.  Ultimately seven are executed and 16 are given life sentences.

 

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-Thomas Paine

 

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

HOMESCHOOL YOUR KIDS!

 

The March To Victory

There is only one place where actual, positive victories on behalf of the truth about the income tax are being won, and that is within the ranks of those educated by 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'.  Here are this week's additions to the ever-growing mountain of such victories, each of which represents a concrete shift of overall power and control away from the state and back to individual Americans where it belongs.

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

 

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

 

Taking Action (And ONLY Taking Action) Brings Results

 

Ever notice how everybody complains about the overgrown, arrogant federal government, but nobody actually does anything about it?  Well, actually, some of us DO do something about it.

 

The Americans you're about to meet know the difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.  These heroes read 'Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America' and learned the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth about the "income" tax.  They know who's really in charge, and how, and why.  They're done arguing with the social director about the best arrangement of the deck chairs on the Titanic, and have gone down to the engine room to make some changes.

(Interestingly, April 15 was the date the Titanic sank...)

 

NOTE: Unless otherwise indicated, all posted federal victories are of ALL amounts withheld or paid in, which includes amounts withheld as ostensible "Social Security and Medicare taxes" as well as those more directly denominated as "federal income taxes".

 

CtC Warrior John Sytsma has learned the accurate truth about the law, and risen to take action.  Having concluded, after study of the relevant law, that his earnings during 2006 were not a result of any taxable activities, John filed a federal return accordingly.  On May 29, 2009, John enjoyed the return of all of his property withheld and given over to the feds, plus interest.  Enjoy John's second victory for the rule of law at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior Don Lovelace isn't just waiting for someone else to take responsibility for the course his beloved country is on, either.  Don shares his second victory this week-- the return of everything withheld from him and given over to New York in connection with the "income" tax during 2009, on February 22, 2010.  Enjoy Don's latest victory at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior D. J. is standing up on behalf of our rule of law, too.  D. shares his first CtC-educated victory this week-- the return of everything withheld from him and given over to California during 2009.  D. secured the return of his property on March 12, 2010.  Enjoy D.'s debut victory for truth, justice and the American way at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior Y. S. is also in action.  On March 19, 2010, Y. secured her third victory on behalf of the rule of law-- the return of everything that had been withheld from her and turned over to the federal government in connection with the "income" tax during 2009-- in this case, nothing but SS and Medicare.  Enjoy this uplifting victory for the vision of the Founders-- and the filing that produced it-- at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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CtC Warrior S. B. is standing with these fine folks and the rest of the CtC community on behalf of all of our rights.  On March 22, 2010, S. secured his third victory-- a complete refund from the federal government of everything withheld from him and given over to it in connection with the "income" tax during 2009.  Enjoy S.'s latest victory for the rule of law at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm.

 

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...and just 7 days ago, on April 16, 2010 CtC Warrior Vince Smith secured his first victory for the rule of law-- the return of all property withheld from him and given over to the federal government in connection with the "income" tax during 2009-- but only after a little tussle with a balky IRS... 

 

Vince's debut victory in enforcing the Constitution, like those of the rest of these good Americans, joins all the others in the ongoing river of evidence of the accuracy of 'Cracking the Code-...' flowing without interruption...

 

...well over six years since the beginning of intense IRS efforts to suppress the book;

 

...almost five years since the DOJ itself moved for dismissal of three different IRS efforts to attack CtC as "promoting false or fraudulent tax schemes" in three different courts across the country in 2004 and 2005;

 

...more than three years since a carefully-inaccurate description of a typical CtC-educated filing was listed as #1 on the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list (the Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeals recently excused this and similar efforts to mislead, declaring that the government can't be prohibited from "SUGGESTING [that CtC] promotes false or fraudulent tax schemes" (emphasis added));

 

...more than three years since the launching of the hokey and contrived IRS PR-campaign "lawsuit" against my wife and me, ostensibly seeking to recover refunds made to us several years ago which even the United States Treasury Department acknowledges were, and remain, perfectly proper;

 

...and well over a year since the IRS launched a vicious assault on me personally in a desperate, deeply corrupt effort to cow the educated into paralysis and frighten the ignorant away from the liberating truth, so as to continue successfully bleeding both into penury and subjugation.

 

 

Celebrate Vince's upholding of the law and all the hundreds and hundreds of others at www.losthorizons.com/tax/MoreVictories42.htm and on the dozens of other victory pages.

 

Current Posted Total:

 

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

 

How About You?

Have You Done Your Fair Share In Support Of The Rule Of Law?!

 

Or are you STILL unable to let actual hard facts and evidence overcome the mere propaganda you've been fed all your life by those with a well-defined and substantial financial interest in keeping you mindlessly ignorant of the truth about the tax?

 

If this is still true, after everything you've read to get to this point, you're probably hopeless, but click here, anyway.

 

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By the way, those who have stood up and taken proper action WITHOUT having yet enjoyed a lawful response are already victors as well.  The moment that a timely, proper and accurate filing is made the virtuous blow on behalf of the rule of law has been struck.

 

The moment that a timely, proper and accurate filing is made the entire exploitation-of-ignorance-as-usual machine stops dead for that filer and that period, and there's no restarting it again (unless the filer can be intimidated into rescission...).  At that point, all current and future illegitimate claims to the filer's property are undone, and the filer's claim for the return of any relevant property is established.  It's just a matter of waiting for the headless chicken to stop running around.

 

However, I don't have a simple way to display victories at that stage of progress.

 

If you're in the category of those who have acted, but whose proper filings are being resisted, rest assured that your victory IS recognized and honored.

 

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

 

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THE PRICE OF BEING RIGHT

Corrupt elements in the federal government have tried four times over the last five years to keep the liberating truth revealed in CtC from the eyes of the American people.  Now, as another "tax season" approaches, they're trying again.

 

MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW

 to help preserve the Rule of Law

 

Click here to learn about this latest effort to keep YOU in helpless, exploited ignorance,

and about how you can help thwart it.

 

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Please do your part!!

 

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

 

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Mid-Edition Update

(Scroll down to see all articles in this update)

 

"The preservation of a free government requires, not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained, but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people.  The rulers who are guilty of such encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority, and are TYRANTS.  The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them and are slaves….."

-James Madison

 

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

 

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About The Endless Mendacity Of Those Who Want To Suppress The Liberating Truth About The "Income" Tax

 

Efforts by the law-defying community to capitalize on the tag-team assault on me still playing out at the district court level concerning a trial in which the jury was told not to sweat the details too much, was denied access to the actual words of the law, and then was given prosecution-written "interpretations" of key aspects of the relevant law instead of the real words of the law-- see here and here for what was given to the jury and what the law really says-- because to let the jury know what Congress really says might result in its coming to an unwanted conclusion...

 

The outcome procured by these contortions is is being used by enemies of the truth (and advocates for your continued enslavement) to shout, "HAH! Hendrickson is ruled against by the court!!  That proves he must be wrong!!!"  Actually, of course, the fact that this sort of gimmickry was needed to get to this point is proof that I am RIGHT, and that the law-defiers don't dare actually argue against what I have revealed about the law, having to resort instead to corrupt efforts to keep the words of the law out of sight.

 

So, a vigorous effort is being made to seize the moment by those desperate to take the steam out of the CtC community itself, and to discourage others from becoming part of that educated, stand-up community of real Americans.  I've posted two documents responding to some of these efforts.  Please read them through carefully, and PLEASE spread them around.

 

Lies

 

Here we are in April, 2010...

 

 

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John Stossel Wants To Hear From CtC Victors!!

 

At a meeting with the producer for John Stossel's Fox Business News Network show on Wednesday, a request was made for victorious CtC-educated Americans to introduce themselves to the show staff in anticipation of a possible program focusing on the liberating truth about the "income" tax.

 

Therefore, I'm asking everyone with victories under their belts to send an email along the lines of the sample below (the portions in read are those that you would customize with your own information).  These folks are looking for people willing to be interviewed, thus the contact info portion.

 

This is a rare opportunity to make a key word-spreading and law-enforcing breakthrough, people.  Please step up for this.

 

To: John.Stossel@foxnews.com
To: Alexandra.Martin@foxnews.com
To: Frank.mastropolo@foxnews.com

Subject: 'Cracking The Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America'

Tens of thousands of Americans have learned the Truth about the income tax and I am one of them.

Thanks to the information in the book
'Cracking The Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America', I was able to study the income tax laws, the revenue code, and how to properly file my return to get all of my property back.

I started filing an educated return in 200x and have continued to do so, securing my rights and the proper return of my property for the years: 200x-200y.

The bottom-line, I am standing up for the long hidden Truth that not all that comes in is income -or- not all earnings are subject to the federal income/excise tax. The income tax is based on federal privilege and most Americans simply do not participate in this privileged activity.

Anyone can learn this incredibly important, liberating truth about the Constitutional structure regarding federal taxing power, which was very deliberately designed by the Founders, and is still the law of the land today.  When you do, you too will be astounded with the fact that you have voluntarily paid a lot more in taxes than you actually owed.

Please consider doing a show about this book, the information it reveals, and the tens of thousands of Americans like me who have read the book and stood up to act on what we now know, so that other ordinary folks just like me can hear this story.

Sincerely,

Your Name
City/State
Phone

 

P. S. The producer specifically asked to not be bogged down with legalese (meaning explanations, discussions or explications on the law).  Therefore, while you are of course free to tell about your victories in the manner you wish, please keep things along the lines of the sample letter above.

 

P. P. S.  If you really want to take maximum advantage of the moment, send the same email to Lew Rockwell at  lewrockwell@mac.com, Jacob Hornberger at jhornberger@fff.org and Glenn Greenwald at GGreenwald@salon.com.  Include this file with emails to these guys.  These are all good Americans with bully pulpits who ought to take an interest if given a reason to do so, and who need to know the truth, in any event...

 

P. P. P. S.  In response to a few questions posted on the national forum about this (and in anticipation of others), Warrior Tim Whitney, who attended the meeting on Wednesday, has these good comments:

 

Folks,

A few questions you may have about the email template:

Why send an email? As we all know from that great old song "Alice's Restaurant" it takes a more than two (or four in this case) to convince others that this is simply not BS.

Why a template?
In speaking with Frank M. at the show/taping - he asked us to "simply" tell our story without legalese and with a show-me-the-facts. The facts are your refund checks and the story is you acting upon the Truth.

Why do you want me to include my contact info?
The staff of the Stossel show may want to reach out to you, possibly a phone interview, and with your support a segment on an upcoming show. They need to hear from real people...

What other info might I include?
If you're so inclined - tell them just how much of your property you've recovered. Every single educated refund is truly important and as we all know it's not just about the money. Someone getting $50+K refund(s) certainly grabs attention, yet the real story is Americans standing up to the biggest bully of all --- even if for only a $1 in refund. It's your property - not theirs. You get the picture.

In closing - please be brief, strong, and positive with your emails. Good news is the hardest news to get on the air.

Regards,

Tim

 

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A CtC Study-Guide

 

CtC Warrior Ike Hall has been engaged in a very virtuous project-- creating a study guide for new students of CtC.  This remains a work in progress at this point, but I think what Ike's done so far is already worth sharing with the rest of the community.  Click here to download the guide-- now complete through chapter eleven!

 

For more clarifying resources click here; and click here for more tools for spreading the truth.

 

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You Can’t Fight Well When You Don’t Know What You’re Fighting About.

 

If you are having an argument with the IRS or any other tax agency,

  • You are NOT being presumed to have made “corporate profit”.

  • You are NOT being alleged to have received “foreign income”.

  • You are NOT entangled in an invisible “adhesion contract”.

  • You are NOT being obligated by a law whose subject is never identified.

You are being targeted because REAL EVIDENCE exists that YOU PERSONALLY HAD “INCOME” to which the revenue laws apply-- even though that evidence is almost certainly incorrect, and CAN be corrected.

 

ARM YOURSELF WITH THE FACTS

 

See the Proof

 

Crack the Code

 

Green Zone

See this film.

 

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Uncle Jay Explains April 12, 2010

(You've got to love his, "to see if you've learned anything..." comment...)

 

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There Must Be Something You're Missing, Right?

 

AS YOU RAISE YOUR VOICE in righteous opposition-- even outrage-- at the fastening of another unconstitutional chain on the American public under the name of "National Health Care" by the political cabal in Washington, you don't find yourself being hindered by the nagging suspicion that perhaps there's something about the legislation that you don't understand, or aren't aware of, which makes it all legal despite appearances to the contrary, do you?

 

You don't pause and settle yourself down with the thought that since our elected officials are the ones who enacted this law, it must be proper, and the how and why is simply escaping you because you're not trained as a lawyer, do you?

 

You don't put aside your concern because you know you can count on the courageous and incorruptible judiciary, and those great folks at the DoJ, to see to it that if there IS anything wrong with the legislation, it'll get taken care of through "the judicial process", and your interests will be properly looked-after that way, do you?

 

In short, you don't stand down and put your faith in "the system" to do the right thing, do you?

 

No you don't.

 

YOU DON'T STAND DOWN because you know perfectly well that something that violates the plain words of the Constitution, or isn't clearly authorized by that fundamental law, is illegal, and nothing within its thousands of pages of text can change that, no matter what that something might be.

 

You don't stand down because you know perfectly well that not only can our elected officials NOT be counted on to confine themselves to what is lawful and proper, but they can be counted on to sell whatever authority our complacency allows them to assume to the highest bidder, and the law and our interests be damned.

 

You don't stand down because you know perfectly well that the judicial process is more often than not just a creative rubber-stamp for the corruptions of the political elite who choose the judges and prosecutors, and the only one that's going to look out for your interest in enjoying the benefit of the rule of law is you.

 

You don't stand down because you know "the system" will screw you, lie to you, sneer at the Constitution and treat you like a fool and a tool.

 

If you're wise, you even know that "the system" is (accurately) counting on the fact that if it succeeds in overcoming your opposition now, in a few short years you'll come to believe that there must just be something about the legislation that you don't understand which makes it legal, because if there hadn't been, our elected officials would never have proposed it or voted for it, and the courts would have struck it down.

 

NOW I ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT ALL THIS as we move into the last month of the primary "tax season".  Especially, I ask you discuss all this with your companions at every "health care legislation protest", and "bailout protest" and "tea party" and the protest of whatever will be the next outrage by those running and feeding off the corrupt state that rallies the opposition of the people.

 

Those standing with you at each of these current and fleeting moments of wakefulness desperately need to learn the truth about the biggest exploitation of their ignorance and complacency that there is, and the one that finances and facilitates all the outrages that they DO recognize-- the systematic mis-application of the "income" tax.  Those good folks standing with you right now over the "outrage de jour" have unfortunately harbored a life-long belief that despite the nagging suspicions that arise when they actually read their copy of the Constitution or even just think hard about how the tax is applied, there must be something about it that they don't understand which makes it legal, because if there weren't, our elected officials or courts would have done something about it.

 

The insidious thing about ignorance is that the ignorant don't know what they don't know, and the human mind always favors perspectives to which it has become accustomed, however groundless those perspectives may be.  This produces a lot of resistance to revisiting long-settled misunderstandings.  But when re-heated by a new passion, the human mind can be re-forged to new perspectives.  Right now, a lot of Americans' "irons" are hot, and now is the time to strike.

 

Pass out copies of CtC or WGRaM, or any of the ever-growing array of outreach tools available here.  Write to every pundit that has been energized by the present assault on the rule of law but is blind to the really big one with which he or she has been living so long as to now view it as "just the way things are".

 

UNDERSTAND, AND I MEAN REALLY UNDERSTAND, that the CtC-educated community is the stake poised over the chest of the vampire, and the vampire knows it.  A whole lot of energy and effort are being expended right now to try to blunt that stake, and dissipate the force behind it back into the "way things are" fog.  It's up to you to keep the stake sharp, and pile on the weight.

 

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“The size of a lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, because the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad.  The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them more easy victims of a big lie than a small one, because they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell big ones.  Such a form of lying would never enter their heads.  They would never credit others with the possibility of such great impudence as the complete reversal of facts.”

-Adolf Hitler

 

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Photographed on 1-70 in Missouri.  America is waking up.

 

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So What Is An Excise, Anyway?

 

Speaking of Spreading the Word, CtC Warrior Greg Sutton has written up a nice little exposition on "excise taxes" that makes a fine handout with which to alert casual contacts to the fact that there's something they need to learn about the "income" tax.  Download it here for printing and distribution; and again, visit this page for more resources.

 

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Do You Know What Happens When YOU Decide To "Let Someone Else Do It"?

NOTHING.

 

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do."

-Everett Hale

(...and every other person who ever really deserved liberty)

 

"God grants liberty only to those who love it, and are always ready to guard and defend it."

-Daniel Webster

 

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

-Edward R. Murrow

 

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Weeding The Garden

 

As is illustrated by the article above, the American legal landscape has become a tangled mess.  Once a well-tended garden, it is now an ugly, weed-infested disgrace in which evil things find plenty of places to lurk, grow, and be used against the people.  It is up to those of us who cherish the rule of law and take our responsibilities to our posterity seriously to correct this problem by pulling the weeds and making clear that error and lies will not be tolerated.

 

The way this will happen is by CtC-educated Americans, who have learned how to read the law, and how to research precedents accurately, taking charge of the legal landscape.  In legal contests with the enemies of the law, the good guys need to debunk every inapposite citation deployed against them and keep the courts honest and on-point, something too many in the legal profession apparently abandoned long ago for reasons of their own.

 

In order to facilitate this effort, I'm setting up a special space in which to post material debunking abused and misconstrued "precedents" such as the 'Lovell' rulings, 'Latham', 'Sullivan' and all the rest which litter government legal filings and have too often been taken by courts (without investigation) as actually standing for the proposition in the context of which they are cited, when knowledgeable examination actually proves this to be untrue.  I'm inviting and encouraging every Warrior to take on the task of pulling at least a few weeds by subjecting one or more cases mis-used as "precedent" by government lawyers and "ignorance tax" beneficiaries to proper analysis and investigation, and then send the results to WeedWhackers (at) losthorizons.com (fix the email address appropriately when sending).  In a short time, we should have a large collection of ready-for-prime-time, ACCURATE material concerning these cases, able to be used by pro se litigants or the attorneys of those using hired help.

 

I hope you'll all dive in here and contribute to this project.  Submissions should be in MSWord or Rich Text format, and should include the full text of the case being analyzed and any preceding cases cited within the misused ruling (going back in like manner as far as necessary).  Analysis should focus on claims of authority within the subject ruling which are not actually supported by the references cited, if any (which could be "case law" or statutes), or claims and conclusions actually contradicted by logic, Constitution, statutes or other rulings (which should be included in the submission).  Layout should be:

1.) The citation being misused by the lying contingent;

2.) A concise statement of "what is wrong with this picture" and why;

3.) The analysis proving the statement made in 2, with references cited and quoted as necessary and appropriate; and

4). an appendix containing the complete text of the analyzed case and referenced authorities.

It's our law, people, but only if we take charge of it.  For far too long, the American people have left care of this oh-so-important resource to our competitors, who have unsurprisingly twisted it to their own purposes.  There's a lot of truth in the old adage that says if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, and it's hard to imagine too many areas where it's more important that things be done right.

 

Click here to help whack the weeds!

 

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Some Important Words About The "Climate Change" Scam

 

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Glenn Greenwald has shared some good words about the "terrorism" hysteria promoted by those who would be our ruling class, and their sycophants in the mainstream media:

 

The Degrading Effects of Terrorism Fears

 

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed—and hence clamorous to be led to safety—by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

-H.L. Mencken

 

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'Real Americans Walk the Walk'

A CtC Film to See and Share

Spread it around to EVERYONE!!

 

If you like, just copy and paste the following into your emails to everyone in your address book:

My dear fellow American,

I've selected you to receive this email because I believe that you, too, share my concern for the direction in which our country is heading.  If I'm right about you, there is a film at  www.losthorizons.com/WtW.htm that you ought to see.

Though superficially this film seems to deal only with the income tax, that really isn't what it's about.  The real subject of this film is our decision whether to have a rule of law in America, or to sink permanently into the noxious hypocrisy of a people actually ruled (and exploited) by those who claw their way to the top of the political-class heap, while clinging to the fiction that we live in a Constitutional republic that is the "land of the free and home of the brave."

Upholding the law with respect to taxation is a critical step in forcing American governments to obey ALL the law laid down in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.  The Founders of this great country recognized this and we must, too, if we want to REALLY live in the land of the free and home of the brave.  That's how I want to live, and I hope that you feel the same.

Please take the few minutes needed to watch this inspiring film, then send it to ten people (or everyone) in your address book, asking them to do the same.  Thank you for your time.

- [Your Name]

(Warriors!  Where Are YOUR testimonials?)

 

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UPDATED!

 

A Brief Introduction To The Fascinating Truth About The Income Tax

(A concise presentation of some key material from ‘Cracking the Code- The Fascinating Truth About Taxation In America’)

 

This important educational and outreach resource has been updated with more supporting authority and information.

 

If you have downloaded this file before, replace with the new version (updated 11-10-09)

 

If you want to win, YOU'VE got to go to the trouble to send this .pdf file to every single person in your address book, whether it's your mother, your accountant, your bowling team, whoever.

 

Even better, sit down with these folks and read this document together.

 

I guarantee that if even just a few hundred thousand Americans who are not already sensitized to the "income" tax issue get this file, knowledge of the truth about the tax will irreversibly take root in the population as a whole.

 

Seriously.  Do you want to win?  SPREAD THIS FILE AROUND!

  Doing so will accomplish more than anything that happens in a courtroom, more than any argument you make with any bureaucrat, more than ANYTHING else that you can do.

Are You Not Bothering?

Then You're Just Talking The Talk.

 

You've GOT To Walk The Walk If You Want To Win.

 

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

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Test Your "Income" Tax IQ!

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

 

Click here to take the test

 

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'Knowing Is Better'

A new, 2-minute CtC video to see and share!

 

Click here to see or download the .wmv version (only 2.5 megs, and thus easily sent around by email), or see and share the large-format "high-def" version on YouTube here.

 

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Also Updated:

 

It's Time To Learn The Truth About The Income Tax

 

This "Truth-About-The-Tax-In-20-Minutes" film has been updated to report a more current posted victory total.  If you've got it posted anywhere (i.e. YouTube, a personal website), please update your posted version!

 

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

 

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

 

So I'm okay with submissively letting the government:

  • take 45% of my earnings;

  • habituate itself to the conveniences of "creativity" in the writing of laws and the behavior of its officers in courtrooms in order to take that wealth from me with an appearance of legitimacy;

  • use my money to mess with foreigners on behalf of special interests, engendering hatred and contempt of all Americans-- including me;

  • use my money to finance an army of bureaucrats who rule my life for the benefit of themselves and their special-interest clients;

  • use my money to pay for an army of lawyers who will sue me or prosecute me if I try to make my own choices about who works for me and on what terms; about what I say-- and when, and how; about what I do with my own property; about whether I'm equipped to defend myself and those I love; and about how I raise and educate my children;

-- just as long as I'm left alone, dude!

 

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."

-Thomas Jefferson

 

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A Housekeeping Note Concerning State Warrior Groups

 

While doing state group updates recently I once again noticed that there are hundreds of folks whose state forums invitations are still pending due to never having received a response!  Some of these open invitations go back a year or more.

 

If you have ever applied for a state forum membership in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Wisconsin and have not been getting regular emails from the group, it is because you failed to accept the invitation that arrived in your inbox from "noreply @ googlegroups.com"!  Even after you have sent your request to join your home state group as indicated at www.losthorizons.com/tax/StateGroups.htm, you must confirm your email address and accept the invitation as specified in that email from "noreply..." in order to finish the sign-up process. 

 

You can, however, correct this at any time!  Go to www.losthorizons.com/NewsletterFeaturePage.htm#JAF to learn how! 

 

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CtC Videos And Audio Resources

 

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Doing A Little High-Payoff Math

 

If each person receiving this newsletter each week distributed as few as 100 of any of the great outreach tools featured here to co-workers, friends, neighbors and family members (or just strangers on the street, in the mall, etc...), we could have SEVERAL MILLION new Americans suddenly introduced to the liberating truth about the tax!

 

Just like that!  In one week!

 

C'mon, people, let's roll on this!

 

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C'mon, Warriors!  We Need Videos!

 

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Don't Miss The Next ChatRoom Conference, May 12!

 

I'll be joining Roger Van Syoc and scores of other warriors in the “We The People of America” Paltalk voice and text chat room starting at 8 PM EST.  These virtual meetings are interesting, informative, educational, and just plain ENJOYABLE!  So, don’t miss this one!  Reminder; you will have to have the FREE Paltalk software installed and working on your computer to attend the meeting.  If you do not have it, go to www.paltalk.com and click on the “Download for Free” tab.  I also suggest that you get a headset with microphone if you want to be able to talk rather than just text-message.

 

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Spread The Truth

 

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Highlights Of The Current Newsletter

 

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A Few Tips For Making Best Use Of This WebSite

 

USE THE SITE MAP AT www.losthorizons.com/IncomeTaxSiteMap.htm!!!

 

USE THE SITE SEARCH PAGE AT www.losthorizons.com/search.htm!!!

 

When directed to a page by topic or link, read everything.

 

I know that this can mean the investment of a lot of time, attention and effort, but although some may imagine otherwise, I don't write as much as I do because I can't think of any other way to spend my time...

 

Furthermore, when you encounter a hyperlink within, or associated with, the text you are reading, follow it!

 

It is pretty common these days for web-based material to be littered with hyperlinks.  Sometimes the purpose is to provide definitions or examples, in order to ensure that folks reading the original material aren't presented with a word or reference which they don't understand.  Sometimes the links lead to illustrations pertinent to the original text.

 

It is common-- and perfectly understandable-- for folks who are confident that they are familiar with language or references within the main text they are reading to get in the habit of skipping over included links.  I do it all the time, myself!

 

However, I very rarely include links for definitional or explanatory purposes; and when I DO make a link out of text in one page it is generally to another self-contained page, rather than merely illustrative material.  These other pages contain material the clear understanding of which I deem highly important for the proper and complete understanding of the original page.  (Links to CtC, the Victories pages, CtC Warriors and so on are obvious exceptions to this general rule.  On the other hand, a link to the victory Highlights or 'Every Which Way But Loose' pages, which might seem like such exceptions, are not.  The special selection of victories on those pages, and the filed docs and tax-agency correspondences included therewith, themselves constitute highly instructive material which merits careful attention.  Thus care needs to be taken in all cases.)

 

Please make a habit of clicking on all provided links and at least looking briefly to ensure that the linked page is one with which you are completely familiar from another study session.

 

Finally, please keep in mind that, annoying though it may seem at first blush (but not, I trust, upon reflection), I constantly tweak material already posted.  Obviously this doesn't mean that every page is in flux at all times, but it does mean that if you are directed to a page that IS familiar, it's worthwhile to read it through again if it's been a month or two since your last having done so.

 

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The liberating truth about the "income" tax is turning those who would evade it

EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE

 

Intro

(Or click here to go straight to the new episode)

 

DO YOU REMEMBER those old sci-fi movies (and numerous 'Lost in Space' and 'Star Trek' episodes) in which an evil robot or a computer collapses into terminal dysfunction after being presented with data that "does not compute"?  The machine would flail about dangerously for a bit (or smoke and shake, and threaten to explode) before finally going limp, silent and harmless.

"LOOK OUT, DOCTOR SMITH!!  DANGER!!  WARNING!!"

 

Some CtC Warriors are being drafted to play the part of the intrepid heroes of these space operas lately, with federal and state "income" tax agencies in the role of the neurotic robot:

 

Since August of 2003, when the revelations of CtC were first published, the IRS has been engaged in a desperate struggle to regain its hold of fear and confusion over those now equipped with an understanding of the long-hidden secrets of the "income" tax, and to stop that understanding from spreading.  We have seen, for instance:

  • a carefully inaccurate allusion to a typical CtC-educated filing sit as #1 on the IRS "Dirty Dozen" list for a year (then quietly get relocated to #5 and then #7 as CtC-educated filings merely increased, and continued to prevail, making the misdirection of the listing too obvious for the agency's comfort);

  • Mis-directional ploys such as the "Questionnaire" discussed here;

  • a multitude of constantly tweaked agency "FAQ" and "Truth About Frivolous Argument" publications seeking to instill doubts about what is taught about the law in CtC in the minds of careless readers, worthy of attention only in order to enjoy the agency's entertaining efforts to imply what it cannot simply declare, but wishes a naive reader to take from the reading.

We have also seen a series of transformations in the means by which the occasional loose-cannon IRS staffer attempts to persuade a CtC-educated filer to stand down.

 

For a while, fairly brazen declarations that a filing meets the statutory definition of a "frivolous return" was the popular approach.  Brazen or not, of course, these notices were always mere exercises in intimidation, which careful analysis readily revealed to be fallacious.

 

Everyone must come to his or her own conclusions, but consider: The notices strive hard to give the impression that the tax agency can unilaterally disregard the target's filing, and can tack on a penalty as well.  BUT they say that the agency will generously refrain from imposing the penalty, if only the target withdraws the original filed testimony and replaces it with what the agency wants attested-to (which, remember, the target is simultaneously being told would be legally meaningless, because the agency can unilaterally disregard that original testimony at will...).

 

What is being implied is that, either way, the amount of tax owed is going to end up being whatever the agency dictates-- the filer's return notwithstanding.  The only optional element is the additional penalty, which the agency is offering to forego out of the goodness of its heart.

 

Well, if this is true..., WHY SEND THIS "LETTER" AT ALL?  If the agency has the power to unilaterally make these decisions, there is absolutely no point to asking the target to do anything!

 

If the agency (or its client) has the power it is suggesting, its correspondent would simply get a notice along the following lines: "Dear Mr. XXX: We have calculated your tax liability for 200X, and converted $XXX of your withheld property in escrow to our ownership.  An invoice for the outstanding balance [if any] is attached.  Your filed return was frivolous, and provided us with the authority to add a $XXX penalty to your tax liability.  We have [added or foregone] this penalty." 

 

After all, if the agency has the unilateral authority it is attempting to suggest that it does, why would it care whether another return was filed?  (Readers of 'Cracking the Code...' will know the answer to that, of course.)

 

Instead, the agency DOES make this "threatening" request; and/or "proposes" calculated liabilities to which it asks its target's agreement in order to have effect (see examples of this here).  Sometimes it begins sending endless "levy notices" to the unbending filer (which notices, insofar as they concern years when only accurate, educated returns have been filed, only allege liability for a penalty, and not for any tax related to the year in question-- even when the target has received a complete refund of every penny withheld or paid-in in connection with that year...).  The sum of all of this is, of course, that the agency DOESN'T have the unilateral authority which it suggests that it does, and where accurate, educated filings are concerned, its "frivolous letters" are just exactly that: frivolous letters.

 

"Tax liability is a condition precedent to the demand. Merely demanding payment, even repeatedly, does not cause liability.  For the condition precedent of liability to be met, there must be a lawful assessment, either a voluntary one by the taxpayer or one procedurally proper by the IRS."

Bothke v. Terry, 713 F. 2d 1405, at 1414 (1983)

 

Nonetheless, as more and more warriors have forcefully pointed out to more and more IRS workers that inappropriately sending such threatening-looking letters cuts very close to the criminal under a variety of federal and state laws, the tax agency has scrambled to adjust.  For one thing, the "frivolous" notices have been carefully and repeatedly modified toward ever-more obvious legal meaninglessness, in order to deflect potential charges of constructive fraud, witness tampering, extortion, etc.

 

At the same time, these legally dicey threatening-sounding notices have been largely replaced by a comical kind of delay tactic, in which the agency sits on a filing in silence, and when contacted with an inquiry to the effect of "Where the h*ll is my property?!", responds with a claim that the agency can't find the filer's return and a request that the offended filer please send a fresh copy, or a series of "We need 45 days to look into the matter-- please be patient-- don't call us, we'll call you..." notices.

 

In this series of articles, we take a close look at many of these gimmicks, ploys and dodges in order to accurately perceive their true character, and take in and appreciate the underlying message, which is that efforts like these are engaged in only when the actor has  no real basis for its actions.

 

Enjoy.

 

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EVERY WHICH WAY BUT LOOSE- XXXIV

 

This past January, CtC Warrior Vince Smith wasted no time sending in his claim for the return of everything that had been withheld from him and given over to the federal government in connection with the "income" tax during 2009:

 

 

Annoyingly, the IRS wasn't quite as eager to abide by the law...

 

(This image combines both pages of this "LTR 12C" balk-instrument)

 

However, Vince takes the law seriously, and knows that it is HIS responsibility to enforce the law when those in positions of authority and public trust seek to evade it:

 

 

This time the errant agency got the message that it's dealing with a real American, who won't let himself be browbeaten, fooled or frightened into assuming a prone position in the face of government misbehavior:

 

 

It'd be nice if these bureaucrats would just forget about all these shameful ploys as soon as they recognize that they're dealing with CtC-educated Americans, instead of clinging to the hope that maybe they've stumbled upon the odd one or two that might let themselves be intimidated into collapse, wouldn't it?

 

Someday...

 

In the meantime, though,

 

Watch out for that robot!  I THINK IT'S GOING TO EXPLODE!!

Isn't it too bad everyone hasn't done like Vince, and read CtC-- the exclusive source of the complete, accurate and liberating truth about the "income" tax?  You can help change that, and thereby help transform America.  Click here to learn how (while you still can-- see below...).

 

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THE PRICE OF BEING RIGHT

Corrupt elements in the federal government have tried repeatedly for years now to keep the liberating truth revealed in CtC from the eyes of the American people.  They're still at it.

 

MAKE YOUR DONATION NOW

 to help preserve the Rule of Law

 

Click here to learn about this latest effort to keep YOU in helpless, exploited ignorance,

and about how you can help thwart it.

 

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Please do your part!!

 

"Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

-Thomas Paine

 

 

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THIS WEEK'S TAX TIP

A helpful summary of certain core "income" tax dynamics, and the occasional resource for Warriors

 

More On §§ 6021(d) And 7491 "Additional Evidence" Requirements

 

I recently saw a story on the net about someone who (according to the story) was in a Tax Court proceeding recently in which the government produced the creators of "information returns" on which it was relying as witnesses.  These witnesses affirmed that they had paid the amounts reported, and had filled out the forms.  An interesting ploy, but nothing could be more irrelevant and insufficient...  

26 USC § 6201 -Assessment authority

(d) Required reasonable verification of information returns

In any court proceeding, if a taxpayer asserts a reasonable dispute with respect to any item of income reported on an information return filed with the Secretary under subpart B or C of part III of subchapter A of chapter 61 by a third party and the taxpayer has fully cooperated with the Secretary (including providing, within a reasonable period of time, access to and inspection of all witnesses, information, and documents within the control of the taxpayer as reasonably requested by the Secretary), the Secretary shall have the burden of producing reasonable and probative information concerning such deficiency in addition to such information return.

26 USC § 7491 -Burden of proof: 

(a) Burden shifts where taxpayer produces credible evidence

(1) General rule

If, in any court proceeding, a taxpayer introduces credible evidence with respect to any factual issue relevant to ascertaining the liability of the taxpayer for any tax imposed by subtitle A or B, the Secretary shall have the burden of proof with respect to such issue.

Understand that the additional "reasonable and probative information" that the government must produce in response to a dispute with the assertions on an "information return", or its carrying its burden of proof as to such assertions, CAN'T simply be a recitation or transcription of the same information that appears on the IR.  Neither that same information transcribed onto another form (such as an IRS "account transcript") or that same information recited by a live witness, even if that live witness is the person who filled out the "information return" in the first place, meets the statutory standards.

 

Such a recitation or transcription ISN'T additional information, nor is it proof of the disputed assertion.  Such a recitation or transcription is merely the same, original information that the statutes say must be ADDED TO and/or PROVEN, not just repeated.  The statutes don't say that the Secretary shall "prove that such assertions were made", they say that what is asserted must be proven, and by other evidence.

 

Understand further that per 26 U.S.C. §§ 6041 and 6051(a), what is to be reported on a Form W-2 or 1099 is the amount paid as remuneration for services rendered as an “employee” as defined in 26 USC § 3401(c) (through the definition of “wages” in 26 USC § 3401(a)) and/or the amount paid for services rendered in “employment” as defined in 26 USC § 3121(b) (through the definition of “wages” in 26 USC § 3121(a)), or the amount paid for activities in the course of a “trade or business” as defined at 26 U.S.C. § 7701(a)(26).

 

What must be substantiated under §§ 6201(d) and 7491, therefore, is not merely the accuracy of the report in regard to ‘the amount of dollars paid’, but the accuracy of the report in regard to ‘the amount of dollars paid that meet the statutory specifications for reporting with these forms’.  Remember, these forms specifically and deliberately DO NOT ask that MONEY PAID be reported.  Instead, they ask only for the report of payments meeting the statutory specifications.

 

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A New Resource:

A CtC "Points and Authorities" Guide

shared with the community by Warrior Steven Robert Jones

 

Download the guide here.

 

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Getting Your Ducks In A Row

When you're in a shooting match where hits have been hard to come by, the problem may be that you've been dealing with a moving target...  Here's how you can stake the other side down.

 

Two years ago, CtC Warrior Patrick Mooney went into tax court suing to recover "frivolous penalties" held back from otherwise complete refunds made to him by the federal government for several years-- one of which "penalized" years was another for which he had already gotten a complete refund.  He had prepared as best he could, having never been in the court before (and operating on the expectation that the judge would know and apply the law).  After a ten-minute "trial", Patrick was told that he "failed to prosecute his case" (with no further explanation forthcoming), and his suit was dismissed.

 

On Monday, March 15, Patrick went back. The proceedings were MUCH more extended, Patrick was treated with respect, and the court has yet to issue a decision.  The difference?  For one thing, Patrick is a two-years-more-thoroughly-CtC-educated litigant and he now had some familiarity with procedures in the court.  Consequently, Patrick was able to able to handle things more effectively, generally.

 

But mostly, it was that Patrick went in with a powerful weapon.  That weapon was the first thing deployed upon the opening of proceedings, was largely read into the record immediately, and was accepted as a whole without objection by either of Patrick's adversaries in the courtroom.

 

I'm speaking of a well-crafted Request for Judicial Notice-- a prepared body of relevant points of law and fact that establishes the parameters within which the court must act.  Patrick's notice is largely a compilation of points published in CtC and/or posted on this page over the last few years (and now available in 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?' along with background information and analysis).  See it below, and enjoy.  By the way, assembling the material into this notice form was largely the excellent work of Warrior Sarah Waltner.

 

REQUEST TO TAKE JUDICIAL NOTICE

 

 

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It's Not A Tax On Money-- Not Even The Money Called "Wages", Or "Income", Etc.

 

The success of the efforts to misapply the tax over the decades has rested in no small part on a sustained campaign by the tax-beneficiaries to behave as though everyone and everything is a part of the federal universe, in which every dollar changing hands is potentially a measure of a tax liability.  This ploy contributes significantly to the difficulty many people have in remembering that the tax isn't actually a tax on money-- not even on money designated as "wages" or "net earnings from self-employment", or just as "income".  Instead, the tax is on the happening of a taxable event, the extent of which is simply measured by the money changing hands.

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

The biggest problem arising from confusion on this point is a tendency to let tax-related arguments, such as those in Tax Court, revolve around whether receipts have been had and/or what receipts are to be called, rather than on the real issue: whether taxable activity has been engaged in.  The result is the exploitation by the adversaries of the truth of the natural blurriness attendant upon the law's use of terms mimicking common words, while having more specialized meanings in the context of the law.

 

For instance, we've all seen sonorous declarations by judges that "wages are income".  Of course, what qualify as "wages" in the context of the tax laws certainly ARE "income", but when a declaration of this sort is made, even those who know the difference between "wages" as defined in the tax laws and 'wages', the common word, can easily let the meanings of each confusingly blend with the connotations of the other.  For those who DON'T already know the difference between the word and the term, sonorous declarations of this sort are entirely misleading, and are taken as a declaration by the judge (or whoever) that 'wages' (under the common meaning of the word) are "income" (as in, "taxable").

 

For that matter, based on this declaration alone, it is impossible to tell what the declarant even means.  We all like to imagine that judges actually know the law, and would, if saying such a thing, simply mean to be understood as saying that "wages" as defined in the tax law are "income", but judges often DON'T know the law, and have themselves been misled by just this sort of statement issuing from the mouths of OTHER judges (or even just from the tax agencies, whose interest in cultivating misunderstanding on this point is obvious).

 

Consequently, it is very important for everyone's clarity of thinking, and productive argumentation, to keep firmly in mind that what matters is not what has been received, or what it is called.  Calling receipts by their proper labels is a form of shorthand, and a useful one in many circumstances, but it presumes that everyone knows how to translate the label used into its proper, complete meaning, and will automatically (and honorably) do so.  Neither of these things can be relied upon, and prudence dictates that the conveniences of shorthand be foregone when accuracy counts.

 

On those occasions, such as in a courtroom, the wise warrior will recognize that when an allegation of the receipt of "wages" is being made, what is really being said is that any money involved was received as a consequence of engaging in a taxable activity, as opposed to money received when NOT engaging in a taxable activity.  That is, the fact that money may have changed hands is, by itself, entirely irrelevant to the foundational issue, which is whether one was doing something upon which the federal government has the authority to impose a tax.  Only IF it can be proven that one was engaged in a federally-taxable activity (and one taxable without apportionment) does the receipt of money then arise as a secondary matter (and then only insofar as particular receipts can be tied to that activity and then be used as a measure of its extent).

 

(For some related observations, see 'A Wage By Any Other Name Is Taxed The Same' in 'Was Grandpa Really a Moron?')

 

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About Lemons, Bananas, And The Occasional Kumquat...

 

I've recently seen an increasing use of a cheap semantic ploy by the "ignorance tax" beneficiaries-- the deliberate mis-characterization of educated filings as being claims that the filer (or his "income") is "exempt" from the tax, rather than what is really being declared, which is that the earnings involved aren't "income" at all (and therefore not only needn't be "exempted", but actually CAN'T be, since they are not within the tax's scope in the first place).   For instance, in a brief filed a few weeks ago by the Department of Justice (sic) attorney in response to a lawsuit brought by a CtC Warrior to compel the processing of his return, the govt. flack writes, "Plaintiff... ...believes that he... ...is exempt from the application of the income tax to his wages and other income."

 

This ploy is a very calculated effort to steer the thinking of anyone reading this brief (such as the judge) in order to evade what is REALLY being said by the filer (since if what the filer is really saying is squarely addressed, the "ignorance tax" beneficiaries have no argument to make).  Happily, it takes but a moment to expose the nature of this subterfuge...

 

Here's a good relevant definition of "exempt":

EXEMPT, v.  To relieve, excuse, or set free from a duty or service imposed upon the general class to which the individual exempted belongs; as to exempt from militia service.  Jones v. Wells Fargo Co. Express, 83 Misc. 508, 145 N.Y.S. 601, 602.  See 1 St. at Large, 272.

Black's Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition

As can be readily understood in light of this definition, earnings that are not "within the general class of "income"" don't need to be "exempted" in order to not be subject to the "income" tax, and a filing that declines to list some particular earnings in the "income" lines on a tax form isn't treating those earnings as "exempt" (nor is the filer suggesting that he is "exempt from the application of the tax to his wages or other income").  Such a filing is simply treating those earnings as "not income"-- that is, as not within the general class from which they even COULD be "exempted".

 

Here's an analogy that should help make this clear: Consider someone who possesses six lemons and six bananas and who is asked how many lemons he has.  When he reports "Six", he is not "exempting" the bananas, he is simply recognizing that the bananas aren't lemons, and haven't been asked about at all.

 

A more complex formulation doesn't change this principle, by the way.  For instance, imagine that our intrepid respondent is asked about how many pieces of fruit he has, if "fruit" is defined as follows, "For purposes of this inquiry, the term "fruit" includes lemons, oranges and kumquats."  Our knowledgeable respondent would STILL answer, "Six", and he STILL wouldn't be "exempting" his bananas, because they STILL wouldn't be within the scope of the inquiry...

 

Remember, when given a definition as in this example, "fruit" no longer has anything to do with 'fruit', per se.  Were the term meant to encompass "anything that is a fruit", it wouldn't have been given a special definition to begin with-- because that's what the word means WITHOUT a special definition.

 

Further, specifying certain varieties of fruit in the custom definition emphasizes that the term is not intended to encompass everything that happens to be 'fruit' per the dictionary definition of the word.  If the term is intended to encompass everything that happens to be 'fruit' per the dictionary definition of the word, those specified varieties of fruit are already within that definition.  They can only be being specified because they are being DISTINGUISHED from "everything that happens to be fruit", creating a new term that is explicitly NOT "everything that happens to be fruit".

 

Instead, "fruit" is now a term of special meaning that happens to be spelled the same as 'fruit', and it means "lemons, oranges and kumquats".  Even if we apply the "limited expansion" effect to the term "includes", such as is provided for at 26 USC 7701(c) (allowing the expansion of the definition to other things of like kind and class as those listed), looking at the characteristics of those things listed we find that they are all spherical and citric (while also happening to be fruits).  This make our class one of spherical, citrus fruits.  Thus, bananas, which, while also happening to be fruits, are neither spherical nor citric and therefore cannot be deemed included.

 

Obviously, there is nothing difficult about any of this, and it is inconceivable that the mis-characterization of an educated filing as somehow being an assertion of "exemption" is a matter of innocent mis-understanding.  On the contrary, it is entirely deliberate, and the message it delivers should be lost on no one: Mis-characterizations like this are deployed because the law-defiers have no argument against what a CtC-educated filing, claim or argument is actually saying.

 

For more on this subject, see WeedWhackers

 

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What They Said About He Said-She Said

 

An allegation on an "information return" is "reasonably disputed" merely by a sworn rebuttal, each being of the same legal stature-- Joe's affidavit v. Sam's affidavit.  A tribunal is not in a position to unilaterally honor one and dishonor the other.  As held by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in reversing a Tax Court decision and ruling a deficiency determination invalid:

 

“[T]he Commissioner's determination that Portillo had received unreported income of $24,505 from Navarro was arbitrary. The Commissioner's determination was based solely on a Form 1099 Navarro sent to the I.R.S. indicating that he paid Portillo $24,505 more than Portillo had reported on his return. The Commissioner merely matched Navarro's Form 1099 with Portillo's Form 1040 and arbitrarily decided to attribute veracity to Navarro and assume that Portillo's Form 1040 was false.”

 "Therefore, the judgment below regarding unreported income must be reversed."  Portillo v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Fifth Circuit, 932 F.2d 1128 (1991)

 

This principle finds expression in several statutes.  For instance, see the language at 26 USC 7491:

26 USC § 7491 -Burden of proof:

(a) Burden shifts where taxpayer produces credible evidence

(1) General rule

If, in any court proceeding, a taxpayer introduces credible evidence with respect to any factual issue relevant to ascertaining the liability of the taxpayer for any tax imposed by subtitle A or B, the Secretary shall have the burden of proof with respect to such issue.

(2) Limitations

Paragraph (1) shall apply with respect to an issue only if—

(A) the taxpayer has complied with the requirements under this title to substantiate any item;

(B) the taxpayer has maintained all records required under this title and has cooperated with reasonable requests by the Secretary for witnesses, information, documents, meetings, and interviews;

This section is nicely explained by the 10th Circuit Court as follows:

“Credible evidence,” as used in § 7491(a)(1), means “the quality of evidence, which after critical analysis, the court would find sufficient upon which to base a decision on the issue if no contrary evidence were submitted.” Blodgett v. Comm’r, 394 F.3d 1030, 1035 (8th Cir. 2005) (emphasis and quotation omitted).”  Rendall v. CIR, 535 F.3d 1221 (10th Circuit, 2008).

Plainly, 4852s and 1099 rebuttals meet this standard and would be sufficient for a decision in the absence of contrary evidence.  In fact, such forms have been found by the IRS to be sufficient upon which to base a decision-- in the filer's favor, and IN THE FACE of contrary evidence-- thousands of times...

 

Reading these rulings, I can't help but think about those "frivolous" delays to which some are subjected, based on nothing more than that a filing doesn't match an "information return"...

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73 Am Jur 2d § 146 Operation of legislative definitions, generally

Research References

West’s Key Number Digest, Statutes 223.1

 

The lawmaking body’s own construction of its language, by means of definitions of the term employed, should be followed in the interpretation of the act or section to which it relates and is intended to apply.1  By the same token, the courts should not enlarge statutory definitions so as to include a situation or a condition which it might be assumed the legislature would have covered by an enlarged definition if its existence had been contemplated.2  A statutory definition supersedes the common-law,3 colloquial,4 commonly accepted, dictionary or judicial definition.5  In this regard, where statute itself contains a definition of a word used therein, the definition controls, however contrary to the ordinary meaning of the word it may be,6 and the term may not be given the meaning in which it is employed in another statute, although the two may be in pari material.7  Where the legislature has defined words which are employed in a statute, its definitions are binding on the courts since the legislature has the right to give such signification as it deems proper to any word or phrase used by the statute, irrespective of the relationship of the definition to other terms.8  Furthermore, where a word that already has a definite, fixed, and unambiguous meaning is redefined in a statute, the definition must be taken literally by the courts.9

 

1Curle v. Superior Court, 24 Cal. 4th 1057, 103 Cal. Rptr. 2d 751, 16 P.3d 166 (2001); State v. Olsen, 618 N.WE.2d 346 (Iowa 2000); Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Parklawn Manner, Inc., 41 Ohio St. 2d 47, 70 Ohio Op. 2d 148, 322 N.E.2d 642 (1975); Devers v. Scranton City, 308 Pa. 13, 161 A. 540, 85 A.L.R. 692 (1932).

 

2Lenox Realty Co. v. Hackett, 122 Conn. 143, 187 A. 895, 107 A.L.R. 1306 (1936); Robertson v. Western Baptist Hosp., 267 S.W.2d 395 (Ky. 1954).

 

3Rayonier, Inc. v. Polson, 400 F.2d 909 (9th cir. 1968); 1137 18th Street Associates, Ltd. Partnership v. District of Columbia, 769 A.2d 155 (D.C. 2001).

 

4Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Lenroot, 323 U.S. 490, 65 S. Ct. 335, 89 L. Ed. 414 (1945).

 

5Stenberg v. Carhart, 530 U.S. 914, 120 S. Ct. 2597, 147 L. Ed. 2d 743 (2000); Driscoll v. General Nutrition Corp., 252 Conn. 215, 752 A.2d 1p069 (2000); Erlandson v. Genesee County Employees’ Retirement Com’n, 337 Mich. 195, 59 N.W.2d 389 (1953); Appeal of Clayton-Marcus Co., Inc., 286 N.C. 215, 210 S.E.2d 199 (1974); Minnix v. State, 1955 OK CR 37, 282 P.2d 772 (Okla. Crim. App. 1955).

 

6Appeal of Clayton-Marcus Co., Inc., 286 N.C. 215, 210 S.E.2d 199 (1974).

The general Assembly’s own construction of its language as provided by definitions, controls in the application of a statute, and such definition will be given great weight against any claim that application of the statutory definition defeats the general purpose of the statute.  Ohio Civil Rights Commission v. Parklawn Manner, Inc., 41 Ohio St. 2d 47, 70 Ohio Op. 2d 148, 322 N.E.2d 642 (1975).

 

7Davison v. F. W. Woolworth Co., 186 Ga. 663, 198 S.E. 738, 118 A.L.R. 1363 (1938).

 

8People v. Dugan, 91 Misc. 2d 239, 397 N.Y.S.2d 878 (County Ct. 1977).

 

9Young v. O’Keefe, 246 Iowa 1182, 69 N.W.2d 534 (1955); State v. Standard Oil Co., 61 Or. 438, 123 P. 40 (1912).

 

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The Five Most Powerful Things You Can Do About The Systematic Misapplication Of The Tax

  • Study CtC and this website diligently and thoroughly.

  • Speak your educated truth and then STAND YOUR GROUND.

  • Send the Lost Horizons newsletter to EVERYONE in your address book.

  • Don't waste one minute looking anywhere EXCEPT in CtC or on this site for knowledge or understanding of the tax.

  • If you are on the receiving end of any assertions listed or addressed in this section of losthorizons.com, promptly send the appropriate correction to your correspondent, along with firm instructions to read CtC and never circulate such nonsense again.  In short, don't tolerate, and don't contribute to, a "Tower of Babel" effect.

Although it is very contrary to my nature (and my comfort) to have to point it out, it is a simple fact that if anyone else out there-- regardless of their "credentials" or their apparent sincerity-- actually knew what they were talking about regarding the tax, they would have a sustained body of evidence posted which demonstrates the accuracy of their notions.  (Not just the alleged "evidence" which led them to their notions, mind you, such as a collection of excerpted statutory or regulatory sections, but evidence of the practical, positive outcomes of the implementation of those notions...*)  They do not, of course, because their notions are simply incorrect, no matter how sincerely or loudly they may be proclaimed.

 

Time spent looking at material generated or posted by anyone pushing notions about the tax not found in CtC is worse than time wasted.  It is time spent having one's clear view of the reality of the tax and everything related to the tax darkened-- something that will have to be undone later at the cost of more time and often a great deal of effort.  (By the way, don't confuse an inability to understand what one is seeing with a lack of a clear view.  Sometimes understanding lags a fair bit behind the opening up of one's window.  But it will come, as is made clear here.  For more on this, see this page.)

 

Further, the proliferation, and toleration, of error serves to delay the adoption of the truth by your neighbors, family, friends, co-workers, and, perhaps most importantly, those who will thus continue to burden you with erroneous allegations about your earnings.  Why abide this delay, and these ill effects?  Because you persist in harboring your own doubts about what you have learned in CtC, perhaps due to the intense tax-beneficiary and "tax honesty guru" assaults being made on the book for the past five years?

 

Having your own doubts is fine (as long as you continue to study so as to put them to rest).  But that does not justify turning to, or tolerating, either outright demonstrable errors or those who promote what they like to suggest are "alternative or supplemental theories" about the tax or the manner in which the law works, which are somehow never supported by concrete evidence of their soundness.

 

The facts are this simple: Those who focus exclusively on CtC get it right and win victories.  Those who allow clutter from elsewhere into their minds don't.  At best such folks delay getting it right for as long as it takes to purge the clutter; and at worst, they just never get it.

 

(*In anticipation of what some might attempt to respond with to this regrettably necessary plain speaking, I'll point out that managing to be "left alone" for some indeterminate time-- which might end tomorrow-- by an IRS that is happily banking every penny withheld either as nominal "federal income tax" or as "Social Security" or "Medicare" taxes in the meantime hardly counts as meaningful evidence of a practical, positive outcome for anyone.  Nor does merely succeeding in avoiding property loss by virtue of hunkering down in the shadows of the underground economy, nor managing to dodge a criminal conviction by convincing a jury that one was not acting willfully in doing whatever it was one was charged with.)

 

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Illuminating anniversaries of this week:

May 4- In 1886, a day after police had fired into a crowd of striking McCormick Harvesting Machine Company workers-- killing at least two, a bomb is thrown at police trying to break up a subsequent labor rally in Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois.  8 are killed and 60 are wounded; the police open fire on the crowd again, resulting in an unknown number of casualties.  In 1932, Al Capone begins serving an eleven-year sentence for tax evasion.  In 1970, National Guardsmen shoot into a crowd of unarmed students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University, killing four and wounding nine.

 

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

 

 

 

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

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All That It Takes To Prove Obamacare Unconstitutional...

...is a proper understanding of the apportionment clause and the 16th Amendment.

 

There could be no better example of a direct tax than a tax imposed on an American for simply being alive, but without health insurance.  Twists and turns of its apologists attempting to evade this reality notwithstanding, if a tax can be laid as a consequence of not having bought an insurance policy, but the tax is deemed not applicable if one has, then the price of the policy is a tax (just as the tax is the price of a policy), and that tax is upon one simply for being alive.

 

As such, the tax is direct and must be apportioned among the several states per Article 1, section 9 of the United States Constitution, and that this is so is not mitigated by the 16th Amendment.  To fully understand this, read the following document closely: www.losthorizons.com/Intro.pdf.

 

Then, pass this little article along to everyone you know.  There will only be a limited number of shots at this outrage in the courts, and if this key point is not understood by those bringing these suits in the beginning, and is therefore overlooked, those contests might not go the way they should.

 

By the way, doesn't it strike you as kind of sadly funny that many people have recently made much of the fact that members of Congress didn't read the 'healthcare reform act" before signing it, and yet won't bother reading the tax laws before signing their own tax forms?

 

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