The IRS Criminal Racket
The IRS Criminal Racket
The criminal racket continues unabated
It’s tax day. Let this serve as a reminder that until we’re ready to resist, we’re all slaves to the state.
As I wrote yesterday, tax day is normally April 15 but the weekend and Emancipation Day pushed it to April 18 this year.
Regardless, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is ready to take its pound of flesh. And it’s ready to take our money to bail out banks, fund child sex trafficking at the border and to murder unborn babies and so much more.
So, why do we continue to put up with this? Why do we comply? Why do we fork over loads of personal information every year in violation of our Fifth Amendment right to remain silent?
As for me, it’s simply to not be locked in a cage. I pay out of duress. I’m sick and tired of it, but there’s no movement to actually shut down this criminal enterprise called the IRS.
I want to point you to a clip from a 2006 documentary, America: Freedom to Fascism,” by Aaron Russo.
Russo spoke to a former IRS commissioner, Sheldon Cohen, and it is eye opening.
There is no law requiring us to file income tax forms, and the IRS code states its “voluntary compliance.” Russo asks what that means to which Cohen replied:
“That’s a euphemism we use. We use voluntary compliance when we talk about traffic signals.”
Russo notes in his commentary:
“Traffic law states that it is mandatory to stop at a red light. The IRS code says that it’s voluntary comply. Mandatory and voluntary are the complete opposite of each other, yet he wants us to believe that they mean the same thing.”
Russo asked if an American can be prosecuted criminally for information disclosed on their income tax form, which Cohen said they could. So, isn’t that a violation of the Fifth Amendment?
Cohen responds:
“No…. It doesn’t incriminate you to put your income down.”
Russo states that income is not defined in the IRS code, but Cohen says:
“The law says that the government has the right to tax income from any source derived.”
Russo states that income is not defined, which Cohen says “that correct.”
Well, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the 1920 case Eisner v. Macomber that income is gains or profit from corporate activity, not wages from labor, and it ruled in the 1918 case of Peck v. Lowe that those who were not taxable before the 16th amendment were not taxable after.
To Cohen, it doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court said. Literally, he said that. He said that Supreme Court decisions are “inapplicable” as he cut off the interview saying “this is a waste of time because whatever I say, you’re not going to believe.”
Yes, Cohen demands that we just believe the IRS. They tell us we have to pay, we have to pay.
Russo states:
“The IRS thrives on intimidation and fear, not by law. It’s no different than a criminal protection racket using force to extract your money from you.”
Calvin Coolidge: Spending is the heart of the matter
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President of the United States, spoke on the issue of taxation, and he gets to the heart of it.
Coolidge speaks about the harm the income tax does to Americans, but he also talks about government spending. After all, every dollar spent by government is a tax because it has to be paid for by the people either by direct taxation, indirect taxation, debt or devaluing our currency.
Coolidge states:
“The country needs every ounce of its energy to restore itself. The costs of government are all assessed upon the people.”
“This means that the farmer is doomed to provide a certain amount of money out of the sale of his produce, no matter how low the price, to pay his taxes. The manufacturer, the professional man, the clerk, must do the same from their income. The wage earner, often at a higher rate when compared with his earning, makes his contribution, perhaps not directly but indirectly, in the advanced cost of everything he buys.”
“The expenses of the government reach everybody.”
“Taxes take from everyone a part of his earnings and force everyone to work for a certain part of his time for the government.”
“When we come to realize that the yearly expenses of the governments of this country, the stupendous sum of about $7.5 billion, we get $700 million dollars is needed by the national government, and the remainder by local governments.”
“Such a sum is difficult to comprehend. It represents all the pay of five million wage earners receiving $5 a day, working 300 days in the year. If the government should add $100 million of expense, it would represent four days more work of these wage earners. These are some of the reasons why I want to cut down public expense.”
“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves.”
“I want them to have the rewards of their own industry. This is the chief meaning of freedom.”
“Until we can reestablish a condition under which the earnings of the people can be kept by the people, we are bound to suffer a very severe and distinct curtailment of our liberty.”
“These results are not fanciful; they are not imaginary. They are grimly actual and real, reaching into every household in the land. They take from each home annually an average of over $300 dollars, and taxes must be paid. They are not a voluntary contribution to be met out of surplus earnings. They are a stern necessity. They come first.”
“It is only out of what is left, after they are paid, that the necessities of food, clothing, and shelter can be provided and the comforts of home secured, or the yearnings of the soul -- for a broader and more abundant life gratified.”
“When the government affects a new economy, it grants everybody a life pension with which to raise the standard of existence. It increases the value of everybody's property, raises the scale of everybody's wages.”
“One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.”
So, until the American people want to take responsibility for their own lives, we’ll have to live with the IRS’ criminal enterprise.