For many weeks, we have been looking at what we realistically might do to
save our country from the totalitarian dictatorship that is rapidly
suppressing it. We have seen that to have any hope of doing so we must
recognize the cause: the conspiracy for world government. Presently, we
are
demonstrating why that recognition is so important, and we chose an issue
for the purpose: the sodomite explosion.
We chose that issue because it is so much in the news. We could just as
well
have chosen the federal income tax. A few days ago, the income tax was in
the news again, or, rather, it should have been. It should have been
banner
headlines across the country - but it wasn't. Because you are reading
these
profundities at Etherzone.com, you probably already know what I am
talking
about, but my guess is that few other Americans do, because it goes
without
saying that the Communist News Network, the Communist Broadcasting
System,
all the news that's print to fit and so on, have not given it the
coverage
it deserves.
I refer of course to the fact that, in Memphis, the federal government
tried
a lady named Vernice Kuglin on charges of tax evasion - filing false W-4
forms - and lost. Miss Kuglin is a pilot for Federal Express. Some years
ago, she began wondering what law required her to pay income tax. She
couldn't find it in the Internal Revenue Code, so, in 1995, she wrote IRS
and asked them to tell her.
The Internal Revenue Service refused. They did not respond. The more she
studied, the more she became convinced that the reason they failed to
respond was that the law did not require her to pay. So, she put 99
allowances on her W-4, and took home (almost) all her wages.
Our friends at IRS said she had lied, and charged her with six felony
counts of tax evasion on $920,000 of income, enough to put Miss Kuglin away for
as long as 30 years. She is 58 now, so in effect she faced a life sentence,
and could have had to pay $1.5 million in fines. It is important to note that
our friends at IRS prepare these cases very carefully. They don't take
one into court unless they know they will win. In a case like this, involving
serious money, they do everything they can to incite the jurors' envy.
They constantly refer to the defendant's "fair share."
On August 8, 2003, in Memphis, despite all this, the jury acquitted Miss
Kuglin of all charges. They said IRS had not proved the lady was required
to
pay the tax. After the verdict, frustrated prosecutor Joe Murphy asked
the
judge to order Miss Kuglin to pay it. The judge replied, "Sir, I don't
work
for IRS." By then Murphy may have been too mentally taxed to remember
that,
after the verdict, there was no legal basis for the judge to issue such
an
order, even if he does work for IRS.
Notice that there are many taxes in the Internal Revenue Code. Our
friends
at IRS have no trouble citing the Code section - the law - that requires
a
"taxpayer" to pay each one. Except the income tax. With regard to the
income
tax alone, they are tongue-tied. Why? Wouldn't they quash the controversy
and kamikaze pilots like Miss Kuglin, simply by stating the Code section
that applies?
Yes, they would; they don't 'cause there ain't. There is no such section.
That doesn't mean the income tax is illegal or unconstitutional. It
doesn't
mean there is no such tax. There is, and the people it applies to need to
pay it, but it applies to very few people, like most of the taxes in the
Internal Revenue Code.
What the law requires you to do every year - and our friends at IRS say
so
themselves - is determine whether you are one of those people. You alone
know that, because you alone know what you did last year. Did you make
and
sell liquor last year? Then you must pay the liquor tax. If you made and
sold no liquor, forget it. You don't owe the tax.
To conceal that fact, litigious prevaricators (lawyers) with advanced
degrees in obfuscation have deliberately written the income tax into the
Code in as confusing a manner as possible, to make it incomprehensible to
the normal mind; and our dear friends at IRS use the uncertainty that
confusion engenders to intimidate and literally to threaten Americans
into voluntarily paying a tax the law does not require them to pay.
What does the law say? There are two kinds of federal taxes, only two:
direct and indirect. There is no third kind of federal tax. The law - the
Constitution - says that all federal taxes must be one or the other. In
Brushaber v. Union Pacific (240 US 1), in 1915, the US Supreme Court
ruled that the income tax is legal (constitutional), but that it is an indirect
tax.
Indeed, in Stanton v. Baltic Mining (240 US 103), just a year later, the
same judges said the same thing and added that their previous ruling, in
Brushaber, created "no new power of taxation." In other words, Brushaber
limited the federal government's power to tax rather than expand it;
limited
it by forcefully explaining where that power could not reach. Nothing had
changed since the Court ruled the income tax unconstitutional in 1894, in
Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust (158 US 601).
The trouble with the tax today is that our friends at IRS are
administering it illegally as a direct tax, which the Supreme Court forbade. That is the secret they don't want you to know. Because I am trying to inform, not obfuscate, I am happy to add that this explanation is necessarily quite
simplified, maybe even oversimplified, because of space - but it is true.
For more information, one of many things you could look at is my book,
TaxScam: How IRS Swindles You and What You Can Do About It, which your
Intrepid Correspondent wrote as a guest of the federal government, all
expenses paid, without the help of Matthew Lesko. Go to www.stangbooks.com
and click on non-fiction.
Patriotic Americans hearing about all this for the first time, often
worry. Without the income tax, would the government collapse? The answer is to
ask yourself when the government began. Let's say 1784. When did the income
tax begin? Nineteen thirteen. Between 1784 and 1913, there were 129 years.
For many of those years, there were no internal taxes at all! Yet, just
before the illegal income tax of 1894, the big problem in Congress was the
"Surplus Monster." Tax money was pouring in and Congress didn't know what to do
with it. See the cartoon from Puck, the comic weekly, in TaxScam.
Indeed, when income tax withholding took effect "temporarily" in 1942,
the federal government was still collecting more in alcohol and tobacco taxes
than it was in individual income taxes. Can you name a year between 1784
and 1942 when the government collapsed? I'm willing to compromise. Name a
couple of months. No income tax was needed, because during most of those years
the government was restricted to the few activities the Constitution allows.
Because of verdicts like Kuglin, pressure to abolish the income tax will
grow. Legislators and others will devise schemes like sales taxes,
guaranteed to produce the same revenue the income tax yields now. Ask
yourself why the federal government should continue to receive the
enormous
swag it gouges from us now.
Along these lines, where did the income tax come from? isn't it the
second step to Communism listed by Marx in the Communist Manifesto? Marx thought
that the only step to Communism more important than the income tax was
government control of "all property in land." Sure enough, we now can see
why he thought the income tax was so crucial to Communism.
Among its purposes is the destruction of the middle class that pays it.
As you will see in TaxScam from the mouth of the Conspiracy itself, the main
purpose of the income tax is to reduce the destructive, inflationary
effects of the funny money printed by the Federal Reserve. The income tax does
that by removing purchasing power from the economy, via "temporary"
withholding.
So now we know that the income tax didn't "just happen." It isn't just a
scheme to raise funds. It's a tool of the conspiracy for world government. Did you know all this before? If not, and if you now have a totally
different take on the income tax, you now also see why it is supremely
important to call it what it is: a conspiracy.
We are talking about what we can realistically do to save America. When
your obedient servant went nose to nose with IRS, I was charged only with a
few misdemeanors, failing to file a particular form; no big deal. Miss Kuglin
laid her life on the line. She faced 30 (thirty) years in prison, plus a
huge fine. Apparently she refused to take a lesser plea.
I have not yet had the honor and pleasure of meeting the lady. I am sure
she is as feminine as a lady can be. So I am not talking about her when I say
that to do what she did would take cojones as big as bowling balls, and I
don't know many men that brave. I certainly have nothing against Jessica
Lynch. That innocent, little lady was used and abused by Iraq and the
United States, which to its everlasting shame is promoting women in combat. But
kamikaze pilot Vernice Kuglin is in fact the heroine the media have been
trying to make poor Jessica. Banzai!
"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this
notice and hyperlink intact."
Alan Stang has been a network radio talk show host and was one of Mike
Wallace's first writers. He was a senior writer for American Opinion
magazine and has lectured around the world for more than 30 years. He is
also the author of ten books, including, most recently, Perestroika
Sunset, surrounding our Government's deception in the POW/MIA arena. If you would like him to address your group, please email what you have in mind. He is
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