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Marc Stevens interviews an IRS lawyer in a pretrail conference including his client. All Marc does is ask questions that the IRS attorney refuses to answer, by continually dodging the questions. Here is the article:

http://marcstevens.net/articles/309-owning-an-irs-lawyer.html

And for convenience, I’ve linked the audio file here: http://marcstevens.net/irs_dec_15A.mp3

Marc bleeped out the name of his client and the attorney’s fax number, but left everything else in the call.

What I found frustrating about the call is that the attorney dodged very important questions–one, was if she had witnesses to rely on. She kept saying, “I have no witness to call at this time” which is not answering the question. Finally she admitted that there might be a witness, but that witness might not work for the IRS anymore. This person she refused to identify. Two, I found it troubling that she would not tell Marc if she knew what the factual differences were between taxable and non-taxable income–but she claimed there was a difference. Then she refused to answer if she had admissible evidence that Marc’s client was a taxpayer and earned taxable income. I think Marc is right–she knows there is none and this is more evidence that taxation is actually theft. Anyway, Marc goes into more detail in his article above and does a better job explaining the errors the attorney was making.

Just remember, don’t go into a tax trial thinking you’re going to get a fair trial! They don’t deal in facts, apparently, just legal opinions.

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Marc Stevens talks to an IRS agent on behalf of his client. He asks a simple question and the agent refuses to answer. That’s not suspicious, is it?

Here’s another call to a tax agent, this time with the IRS. Once again, an agent refuses to answer a simple evidentiary question. If there was evidence people were taxpayers (evidence, not tired political accusations) then the tax terrocrats would be happy to provide it. Of course, it’s all a lie and that’s why they don’t answer the questions. There is no getting away from the truth – taxation is theft.

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Please sign the petition!

“The U.S. Government has abandoned the Rule of Law as defined by the People via the Constitution.”

The numerous crises currently confronting our Republic are not the result of poor political policies. These evils are the direct result of decades of violations of the U.S. Constitution by our servant Government.

http://www.givemeliberty.org/RTPLawsuit/SignPetitions.htm

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Small Government News
Thursday, June 5, 2008

“Yesterday, Jim Ogonowski, the Massachusetts Republican Party’s Hand- Picked U.S. Senate Candidate failed to make the November 4th Ballot – for want of 30 petition signatures. 22,000 signatures filed – only 9,970 certified. Imagine what they’ll try to do to our petition signatures.”

A Disturbing Message from Michael Cloud

I’m scared. Not panicked, but scared of what they’ll try to do to knock our END the Income Tax Initiative Off the Ballot.

Why?

In yesterday’s Boston Globe (6/4/08): “In a major embarrassment to Republican leaders in Massachusetts and in the US Senate, Jim Ogonowski, the party hierarchy’s favored candidate to challenge US Senator John F. Kerry in the fall, failed yesterday by a razor-thin margin to qualify for the GOP primary ballot.”

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Okay, I’m going to invoke The Secret and try to spin my political goal positively. I favor Ron Paul because he is the only candidate who promises to work to reduce the size and scope of the U.S. federal  government.

My president cares about our nation’s economy, and strives to balance the national budget. This means cutting government programs we don’t need and bringing us back to sound money.

My president works toward individual freedom and liberty. This is why he disbanded the DEA, and why he knows a federal war on anything won’t work. Instead, he concedes to individual responsibility.

My president focuses on protecting our borders, so he is working to close down our foreign military bases and keeps us out of foreign wars. He understands that a strong national defense is key to our sovereignty.

My president knows that taxing property (read: income) is not the way for a free society’s government to obtain its funding–instead he disbands the IRS and focuses the gross national income on constitutional means such as tarrifs, duties, excise taxes and other means.

My president understands that the executive branch should only have power to execute the laws. This is why he does not participate in signing statements or executive orders. He vetoes legislation that is unconstitutional and that interferes with personal liberty. He signs bills that promote our freedom and that benefit the free market, since he knows that a free market economy is the only economy which promotes individual sovereignty.

My president supports a strong currency. He agrees with Alan Greenspan that a gold standard is the only way to ensure economic freedom. He is a strong proponent of following the US Constitution and holding that only Congress can print the nation’s currency and that it must be backed.

This is the president for me. I am so excited that we are going to have a president that supports my liberty and economic freedom, someone who doesn’t hold with “Nanny State” politics and someone who will vigorously defend my constitutional rights!

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Phil Lucas’s latest column. “This foretells coming price inflation. And we thought prices were already high.”

I also love this line: “Sorry. I got carried away by reality. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking, drinking and sniffing glue.” Nice nod to us Airplane fans.

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Taking into account everything I’ve been reading and correspondence I’m getting, I’m starting to believe that maybe guys like Ed Brown, Irwin Schiff and Larken Rose are grasping at straws trying to fight the IRS on a technicality. Even if they win, Congress could just patch up the technicality and *bam* we’re back in the same boat.

No, the right way is to do as Ron Paul suggests: go after the 16th Amendment, repeal it, and shut down the IRS that way. Then you don’t need to worry about armed men coming to get you because you failed to file your tax return.

Now, having said that, I think Brown, Schiff and Rose are all practicing civil disobedience against an unfair and tyrannical law. We as free people should abhor any such taxation that requires us to divulge such intimately personal details such as our financial affairs. When it comes down to it, in keeping with the spirit of the Constitution and Bill of Rights,  the Federal Government should just plainly butt out of our personal affairs, and that just makes any income tax a violation of one’s privacy.

So, I support those people that decide to go against the system. In fact, if we as Americans all decided that we don’t like the IRS, we could just *all* stop paying income taxes and that would force Congress to deal with a country that wants its freedoms restored.

Anyway, as a fellow I used to work with from the midwest used to say, “Food for Thought.”

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I’m surprised to find this article of all places on Rush Limbaugh’s site:
http://www.rushonline.com/visitors/16thamendment.htm

But there it is. “The 16th amendment does not give the IRS the right to collect personal income tax. Read this e-mail carefully and then check it all out. All ref to law is given.” Wow!

Of course, check out the discussion on Wikipedia about the 16th Amendment, too. The tone there says that the income tax is full proof.

I would like to see a real analysis on these points. I think Americans have the right to know, and if it’s true that there is no law supporting a Federal Income Tax, then it’s time to stop paying it and put an end to the IRS. Wouldn’t that be a great day?

Oh yeah, and don’t forget to watch this excellent video at http://www.dooglio.net/?p=37.

Update: This law prof seems to think the law is quite clear: http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/taxes/JustNoLaw.htm. I wrote an email to him asking what he thinks of the video analysis (link above), and when I know, I’ll post his response.

Update 2: The same guy responded, and directed me to this link: http://docs.law.gwu.edu/facweb/jsiegel/Personal/taxes/861.htm Basically he points out that US citizens are taxed on income from *all* sources. So he soundly rejects the argument in the Larken Rose argument (embodied in the video).

Oh, and the above link also points to this link from Irwin Shiff, an outspoken opponent of the income tax. An interesting tidbit.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5Of8M1MZJQ

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This is an amazing piece. It will take you almost an hour and a half to watch it and probably more than one viewing to fully grok what they are saying, but in essence it’s this: The Constitution of the US does not allow taxation on income derived in the US, but the tax code is so convoluted as to fool most IRS agents, tax consultants, and of course, average Americans. Watch it because my explanation does not do it justice (no pun intended):

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