Brian, this comment goes beyond the scope of what my post is about, and I want everyone to understand that I do not endorse this approach. While I haven't done much research on this, I know that Irwin Schiff, Peter Schiff's father, was a staunch believer that the Federal Income Tax was illegal and he wrote many books about it. He may hav…
Brian, this comment goes beyond the scope of what my post is about, and I want everyone to understand that I do not endorse this approach. While I haven't done much research on this, I know that Irwin Schiff, Peter Schiff's father, was a staunch believer that the Federal Income Tax was illegal and he wrote many books about it. He may have been right, but he died in jail because of his views. If people follow your advice and stop paying taxes and then get arrested, are you going to bail them out? Are you going to take responsibility for their lost income, and legal expenses? We have to keep our priorities straight, and that means that we have to ensure that the Constitution is upheld and freedom is preserved, which will happen via the States and the people. There are ways to address the tax issue, but that is secondary to maintaining our freedom.
Hi Glenn, I apologize if I veered off topic more than you intended without tying my point more closely to your theme..
But if I may please respond, I would like to add that Mr. Hendrickson has very detailed pages dedicated to all the so called gurus out there like Mr. Schiff, and explains in detail why their arguments are incorrect. While Mr. Schiff believed the income tax code was unconstitutional, Mr. Hendrickson goes into great detail explaining why the federal income tax IS entirely lawful and constitutional as written (it is because of certain key terms and definitions, designed to fool the masses who don't read them, that it is constitutional, while making it largely benign for most people). Noone has gone to jail for upholding the letter and intent of the law by rebutting fraudulent W-2s and 1099s when they file their returns and force the IRS to provide 100% refunds. A handful have been harassed, with the IRS trying to intimidate them into changing their returns, but ultimately the IRS backs down and returns the overpayments. If enough people upheld the law and stopped the IRS from misapplying this equitable, fair, desirable income excise, then the feds would resort to direct taxes (which would be apportioned and make the fed dependent upon the states for funding) or they would rely on import tariffs, which have a free market limit. The result would be a return to the fed's inability to reach over the state governments directly into the pockets of citizens of the states and try to offer that money to the state governments with strings attached that would harm the citizens of those states. Without defunding the feds by massive adherence to the limits on the federal income tax, there is just no way the states will be able to kick out better funded feds. I respectfully request that you please invest at least ten minutes on the LostHorizons.com bulletin board page and peruse the correspondence between the IRS and those individuals to whom they furnished 100% refund checks posted. Back to your topic, I just received an ultimatum yesterday from Westinghouse to get an experimental gene therapy shot by December 8th or be terminated. The bottom line is because they see themselves as a federal contractor they are going to submit to Biden's executive order solely because they're afraid of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to help them in their crony capitalism to unfairly compete in the global marketplace. Federal overreach and why they must be defunded if states are going to assert their rights.
Brian, this comment goes beyond the scope of what my post is about, and I want everyone to understand that I do not endorse this approach. While I haven't done much research on this, I know that Irwin Schiff, Peter Schiff's father, was a staunch believer that the Federal Income Tax was illegal and he wrote many books about it. He may have been right, but he died in jail because of his views. If people follow your advice and stop paying taxes and then get arrested, are you going to bail them out? Are you going to take responsibility for their lost income, and legal expenses? We have to keep our priorities straight, and that means that we have to ensure that the Constitution is upheld and freedom is preserved, which will happen via the States and the people. There are ways to address the tax issue, but that is secondary to maintaining our freedom.
Hi Glenn, I apologize if I veered off topic more than you intended without tying my point more closely to your theme..
But if I may please respond, I would like to add that Mr. Hendrickson has very detailed pages dedicated to all the so called gurus out there like Mr. Schiff, and explains in detail why their arguments are incorrect. While Mr. Schiff believed the income tax code was unconstitutional, Mr. Hendrickson goes into great detail explaining why the federal income tax IS entirely lawful and constitutional as written (it is because of certain key terms and definitions, designed to fool the masses who don't read them, that it is constitutional, while making it largely benign for most people). Noone has gone to jail for upholding the letter and intent of the law by rebutting fraudulent W-2s and 1099s when they file their returns and force the IRS to provide 100% refunds. A handful have been harassed, with the IRS trying to intimidate them into changing their returns, but ultimately the IRS backs down and returns the overpayments. If enough people upheld the law and stopped the IRS from misapplying this equitable, fair, desirable income excise, then the feds would resort to direct taxes (which would be apportioned and make the fed dependent upon the states for funding) or they would rely on import tariffs, which have a free market limit. The result would be a return to the fed's inability to reach over the state governments directly into the pockets of citizens of the states and try to offer that money to the state governments with strings attached that would harm the citizens of those states. Without defunding the feds by massive adherence to the limits on the federal income tax, there is just no way the states will be able to kick out better funded feds. I respectfully request that you please invest at least ten minutes on the LostHorizons.com bulletin board page and peruse the correspondence between the IRS and those individuals to whom they furnished 100% refund checks posted. Back to your topic, I just received an ultimatum yesterday from Westinghouse to get an experimental gene therapy shot by December 8th or be terminated. The bottom line is because they see themselves as a federal contractor they are going to submit to Biden's executive order solely because they're afraid of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds to help them in their crony capitalism to unfairly compete in the global marketplace. Federal overreach and why they must be defunded if states are going to assert their rights.
Thanks Brian. I will look into it.