AMERICAN CONSUMER TAX

AMERICAN CONSUMER TAX (ACT)

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

IRS

http://www.paulstramer.net/2016/03/alert-to-all-irs-cases-irs-lufkin-case.html

JURISDICTION
AND THE LUFKIN CASE

From: Paul
Subject: This case completely destroys the idea that the Feds have any jurisdiction whatsoever within the several states.
Date: March 4, 2016
To: Kirk MacKenzie
I wish to thank Paul for bringing this information to my attention. I knew of the case, but not all the documentation. Paul is another staunch advocate for Jurisdiction. Here are direct links to the original article, its embedded links, and Paul’s PDF file. In passing along this information, I am compelled to add my own remarks (below).


AGREE

1. I applaud Trowbridge’s efforts and completely concur with his basic premise. The various federal entities and their agents are—throughout the Union—usurping jurisdiction outside their constitutionally-granted territory, acting under color of authority, and are thus engaged in organized criminal activity in defrauding and depriving the American People of life, liberty, property, and other rights.

DISAGREE

2. The article states: “Congress have power of territorial and personal legislation (two of the three aspects of exclusive legislation, the other being subject-matter) only as expressly provided in Articles 1.8.17 and 4.3.2 of the Constitution.”

I disagree.
  • The federal government was not chartered to control the People. People were the sovereigns, not the subjects. Congress was delegated legislative authority only over enumerated subject matter and lands. The assertion of authority over people began with the unconstitutional “passage” of the 14th Amendment, allegedly creating “U.S. Citizens” subject to federal control.
  • Legislative authority is defined by Article 1.8, and only by Article 1.8. Article 4.3 deals only with Rules and Regulations.
  • Legislative authority over land is defined by Article 1.8.17, and only by Article 1.8.17, none by Article 4.3. It is tightly constrained to only lands defined therein, not all lands.
  • Article 4.3.2 added territories and possessions to the list of lands over which the federal government had some authority. However, that authority merely consisted of Rules and Regulations, not Legislation. As territories became states, legislative authority passed to the respective states, except for Article 1.8.17 lands (known as federal enclaves).
  • Article 1.8.17 refers to exclusive legislative authority. Does that mean it extends to subject matter, land, and people, as Trowbridge contends? Does it further mean Article 1.8.17 lands are untethered from other parts of the Constitution or Bill of Rights; that the federal government is, in effect, its own sovereign nation, as the federal government contends? In both cases, I think not. To interpret Article 1.8.17 in either of these ways would be to defeat the entire purpose of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. To be consistent with the founding intent, exclusive legislative authority can only mean the authority is exclusive to the federal, not state governments, but still subject at a minimum to all provisions of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
3. The article further states: "The geographic area in which the Constitution grants Congress power of territorial and personal legislation is ‘Territory or other Property belonging to the United States’ (Constitution, Article 4.3.2, e.g., the District of Columbia and the territories.” The suggestion is Article 4.3.2 defines the geographic area over which Article 1.8.17 legislative authority applies.

I disagree.

  • Federal subject matter jurisdiction is general in nature. It applies throughout these United States. Federal legislative land jurisdiction applies only to Article 1.8.17 lands.

4. My final point. In defining the word “Constitution”, it is advisable to: 1) refer to it by its full name: Constitution for the United States of America, correctly using ”for" not "of"; 2) optionally include its signing date of September 17, 1787; and 3) exclude the Bill of Rights or Amendments as part of its definition. I firmly believe the Bill of Rights is a separate founding document that is generally applicable, guaranteeing rights under state governments not just the federal one, and that Amendments 14 and above are inconsistent with the nature of the government we established. Therefore, the definition of “Constitution” we use should be to the lawful de jure United States, not the bastardized de facto one.

Monday, March 21, 2011

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO KEEP YOUR PAYCHECK?

1. Where or when did taxation come from? Not exactly sure, but taxation of some sort, whether property, income, sales, etc., has been going on for millenniums. Romans taxed their subjects before Christ.
2. When did income taxation begin?
Not exactly sure when it started, but in 1848, Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. Under Demand #2 of the ten point list of demands, Marx wrote "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheCommunistManifesto). Presumably, this was done to develop class warfare.
Are we not experiencing class warfare now?
Isn't the Bush tax cut extension that was discussed and approved in December 2010 another example of class warfare?
3. Does the US government have the right to tax?
Under Article 2 Section 2 paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution, it is stated
"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers, ... "
Article 2 Section 8 paragraph 1 states: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises ... "
Article 2 Section 9 paragraph 4 states: "No Capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken."
Finally, the 16th Amendment allegedly gave power to the Congress to collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration.
4. What do you mean the 16th Amendment allegedly gave power to the Congress to collect taxes?
Some, like Bob Shultz of We the People Foundation, assert that the 16th
Amendment was never properly ratified. http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org
Additionally, the 16th Amendment did not grant Congress the power to enforce the amendment. For example, in the 15th, 18th and 19th Amendments, it is unequivocally stated that the Congress have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
This is not stated in the 16th Amendment.
5. Is there a law requiring income taxes be collected?
We've yet to find Constitutional law that requires Americans to pay income taxes. Sherry Jackson, Joe Bannister and John Turner are ex-IRS agents who preach there is no law requiring citizens to pay income taxes. Sherry Jackson was found guilty in a trial for various charges brought about by the IRS and is now in prison.
Joe Bannister recently beat two charges brought on by the IRS
http:Uwww.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=lll&contentid=2357&page=1
http:Uwww.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=lll&contentid=2357&page=2
There have been others who have gone to trial against the IRS just for asking: "Where is the law?"
Verneice Kugelin in 2003 and Tom Cryer in 2007 both won their cases against the IRS based on "Where is the law" argument.
6. If the 16th Amendment granted the Congress the right to directly tax people, but the Congress doesn't have the power to enforce it and there doesn't appear to be any law requiring citizens to pay taxes, then how or why are income taxes being collected?
Title 26 of the United States Code provides the regulations for taxation. Normally, a law has to be in force before regs can be written. Seemingly, the IRS goes about its business based on these regs. However, in "Cracking the Code" by Pete Hendrickson and "IRS Humbug" by Frank Humbug both men state Americans do not have to pay income taxes unless they are government workers. Their beliefs are based on their analyses of the IRS Code in Title 26.
7. When did income taxation begin in the USA?
The 16th Amendment was allegedly ratified in 1913. First income tax collections began in 1916.
8. The Constitution allows direct taxation of the people based on census apportionment, the 16th Amendment said apportionment isn't required, but the Congress doesn't appear to have the power to enforce the 16th Amendment, and there doesn't appear to be any law requiring direct income taxation of the people, but taxation occurs because of the IRS Code of regulations which are supposed to come from law, this is all very confusing.
What does the Supreme Court have to say about all this?
In the 1881 Springer, the 1895 Pollock, the 1916 Brushaber, and the 1937 Steward Machinery decisions, the Supreme Court stated there shall be no direct taxation of the people. Please note two decisions before and two decisions after ratification of the 16th Amendment the Supreme Court stated there shall be no direct taxation of the people.
9. There seems to be a lot of contradictions, convolutions, and confusion involving the income tax. What is going on here?
True. The IRS collects taxes, and when people disagree the IRS usually wins.
We are not going to comment on why they win, but we are certain a lot of angst could be eliminated, and fairness in taxation could be brought about if we were to:
a) Abolish income tax in its entirety.
b) Repeal the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

c) Replace it with common sense taxation (such as the American Consumer
Tax) as called for in the original Constitution by our Founding Fathers.
d) Close the "income" processing section of the IRS office.
10. How will I benefit if we abolished "income" tax?
You would keep your paycheck, and thereon be able to budget your own money.
11. What then, would be the government's income source?
Implement equal sales tax on most goods.
Services would be exempt.
12. Why ACT now?
It's the only sure way to turn around America, and will be done at some point in
our history. Why not today?
13. Who wants to ACT now?
All Citizens of the United States of America; regardless their political,
business affiliations, ethnicity, gender, social-economic arena.
14. Who does not want to ACT now?
Anyone who wants to control you, steal your private property and redistribute
it to someone else.
Remember! Your paycheck is your private property!
15. How would ACT be implemented?
a) Before you sell a product you will be required to register with your state.
b) State provides registered seller an "ACT Sales LD." number.
c) State provides seller the simple formula which adjusts cash, debit, check and
credit receipts, and determines how much money state receives from your sales.
d) Seller chooses the formula and form in hard copy or software program.
e) Software would be downloaded on cash registers, and percentage
automatically deducted and sent daily to state only.
f) Software and hard copy formulas would be the "tax collectors." Never the seller!
16. Would any product be exempt?
Debatable; maybe medical and food items?
17. How can my state ACT now?
* ACT registrations
* ACT enforcement
* ACT collections
* ACT Sales LD. data base
* Agreement with federal as to dollar amount (%) sent to federal
18. What happens if I ACT now?
You will be able to keep your entire paycheck!
What you earn will be no one's business except yours!
Finally - you'll know your true earnings, and enjoy budgeting, saving, investing
and spending it!

You can work like everything, and know the federal government won't penalize
you for" earning too much."
19. Are there other benefits?
a) Federal spending will be reined in to handle only those areas as outlined in
our U.S. Constitution.
b) Ends the costly processing fees that accrue in federal will give states a
higher yield on ACT monies collected.
c) Instead of sending your withholding tax to federal, your employer could
give that money to you.
d) Countless hours and money wasted calculating dollars and interpreting
elusive tax codes will be freed up to produce essential products.
e) Employers would be able to pass on savings to their employees, build
infrastructure, and produce more products.
f) Each person who sets foot on U.S. soil would help re-build America, each
time they purchased something.
g) Non-discriminatory, ACT would give illegal immigrants, tourists, drug
dealers, whomever,
an opportunity to work together and contribute to the re-building of America.
h) Those who off-shore money and jobs, would no longer do so. They'd keep it in America, increase deposits and improve financial stability of banks.
I) Banks would loan money, thereby capitalizing businesses that produce and
provide goods. services and jobs.
Commentary
The identification and taxing of ones personal income needs to be stopped now.
ACT should not be permanent; it should instead be used as a transitional tool to
eventually return us to the United States Constitutional defines (tariffs, no taxation of natural born) of collecting taxes.
Honest citizens who made mistakes on their tax forms must be de-criminalized.
Class warfare, and the intrusive, unfair powers of IRS must be stopped.
Hypothesis: Under a 10% ACT, Joe the plumber would spend $10.00 on a $100.00 wrench compared to Donald Trump's spending $1,000,000 on a 10 million dollar jet.
Charitable citizens would have more to give to their neighbor in need.
ACT would generate enthusiasm and incentive for the creators to create, entrepreneurs to take risks, and venture capitalists to invest.
Manufacturers returning to U.S. soil would create jobs and recharge our economy.
You would buy their products, pay taxes on them, and so the circle grows.
States would (rightfully) handle their own unique education, medical, welfare,
road needs.
Onerous policies like death tax, conservation easements, will become moot.
Law makers will have opportunity to address more important matters.
Even the lowest ACT tax % will generate more monies than taxing incomes.
What you should know.
To date, not one entity has in earnest addressed abolishing "income" tax and transitioning in the American Consumer Tax (ACT) - or a comparable fair tax.
Encourage your elected officials to get bold and courageously abolish income tax and implement ACT. That would force Federal's out of control spending to a stop, and turn around our economy today!
ACT would correct federal spending to its original defines under the U.S. Constitution, resulting in the "reining in federal spending."
Your income is your Private Property. No entity has the right to take it. This is called stealing.
No entity has the right to know how much you earn. This is an invasion of your privacy. Your Constitution guards against such unscrupulous actions.
There should never be a discussion regarding the "income" levels that should or should not be taxed.
Some possible ways ACT tax can be figured.
Determine how much each state spends protecting itself from federal actions (Examples: Christie suit in N.J., multi-state suits on Obamacare, DOI, EPA, eminent domain...).
Determine how much each state spends performing duties that federal government should, but fails to perform (includes border protection, illegal immigration, fair trade).
Determine how much money is lost through the accrued cost of looping through D.C. (ACT monies collected and kept in states will enjoy a higher yield.).
Knowledge and adjustment of these factors will help establish percentage of ACT each state could collect, and help identify percentage each state could send to federal.
Discussion: www.AmericanConsumerTax.Blogspot.com
www.LandAndWaterUSA.com

Sunday, February 27, 2011

MR. PRESIDENT, HAVE YOU LIED TO ME TO GET MY MONEY?

By James Nathan Post
Dear Mr. President,
I am addressing this to you as the senior representative of such public servants as the members of Congress, the Director of the Internal Revenue Service, the Secretary of the Treasury, and such others who are sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States of America. I would like to include the directors of the Federal Reserve system, but I have no reason to assume they are sworn to uphold the Constitution as a requirement of their offices. I would particularly like to include all barristers who presume to judge the lives of their countrymen and may therefore have occasion to deprive them of their resources or their liberty for violations of the letter of the regulations and laws concerning the payment of taxes.
It has occurred to me that few Americans actually sit down and read the Constitution after passing their high school government exam on it. Not long ago I decided to read it again in the interest of comparing the life we now lead as Americans with the letter and spirit of that great document. I have discovered what appears to be a major discrepency in the activities of the Treasury, the IRS, and the Federal Reserve system. I am writing this in the hope that you can explain to me how it is that my discovery is in error. If it is not in error, then it seems that a great extortion, a great theft, has been subtly perpetrated against the American citizen through a conspiracy involving the IRS, the Congress, the Federal Reserve banks, and ultimately, yourself.
I recently answered an ad in a mail-order catalog for a way to legally avoid paying income taxes by standing upon the Constitution. I believe in the Constitution, and I believe in paying any Constitutional tax, but if the results of the research I began when I received the mail-order income-tax return instructions represent the truth, then I would certainly want to use this form for my own returns, in order that I might fully uphold the Constitution myself, even if you and those others I mentioned are conspiring to violate the Constitution and to deny me my Constitutional rights.
In placing this matter before you, I am taking the following position: I offer to fill out my income tax return Form 1040 exactly as instructed by the IRS, and to pay any and all taxes due, if you can show me how I can do so without waiving any of my Constitutional rights, or conspiring to violate the letter of the Constitution, or committing any crime. So far, I can't figure out how to do that, so I am asking for your help in clarifying this.
In my studies I have found in 34 Am Jur 2d, Federal Taxation, Criminal Penalties, the following:
Section 9387: General federal criminal law also applies to tax crimes. Tax crimes also may be subject to criminal penalties imposed by federal law apart from the tax law, including
Perjury (18 USCA 1621)
Forgery (18 USCA 495)
Bribery (18 USCA 201)
Conspiracy (18 USCA 371)
False Statements (18 USCA 1001)
False claim for a refund (18 USCA 287)
There seems to be no doubt that one who violates the tax regulations may be guilty of performing an incriminating act. Now I also found:
34 Am Jur 2d, Section 9388: "Taxpayer cannot be compelled to testify against himself. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides that no person may be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."
It would seem to me then, that every American has the Constitutional right, guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment, to refuse to provide the IRS with the answers to any of its questions if those answers could tend to incriminate him. I looked into this a little further and found:
US vs. Sullivan, 274 US 259 at 263: "....if the form of return provided called for answers that the defendant was privileged from making, he could have raised the objection in the return, but could not on that account refuse to make any return at all. We are not called on to decide what, if anything, he might have withheld...."
If I find questions on the Form 1040, the answers to which I feel could be potentially incriminating to me, then I alone must judge which of these I choose to answer, and which I may refuse to answer, claiming the right guaranteed me by the Fifth Amendment. According to the Eighth Circuit of Appeals case:
Isaacs vs. US, 256 F 2d 654: "....He must be the sole judge of what his answer would be. The court cannot participate with him in this judgement because they cannot decide on the effect of his answer without knowing what i~ would be; and a disclosure of that fact to the judges would strip him of the privilege which the law allows...."
I was curious to know if this protects the taxpayer from being commanded to produce written testimony as well as spoken testimony, and I found:
US vs. Sullivan, 274 US 259 at page 262: "The privilege is not limited to testimony, as ordinarily understood, but extends to every means by which one may be compelled to produce information which may incriminate."
Heligman vs. US, 407 F 2d 448: o. .... The privilege must be specifically claimed on a particular question and the matter submitted to the court for its determination as to the validity of the claim."
Hale vs. Henkel, 201 US 43 at page 74: ....The individual may stand upon his Constitutional rights as a citizen....He owes no duty to the State or to his neighbors to divulge his business, or to open his doors to an investigation, so far as it may tend to criminate him. . .
Congressional Record - Senate, August 2, 1967, page 20961, "Rights of Taxpayers.': "Mr. Long of Missouri, 'Mr. President, I invite the Senate's attention to certain correspondence I have had with Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Sheldon S. Cohen with respect to the legal obligation of citizens to keep records, produce records, and answer questions relating to tax liability. ....Criminal cases have been veiled in civil clothing to obtain information illegally. Taxpayers have been bullied and threatened, especially small taxpayers and those without legal assistance. What should taxpayers do when faced with such a situation? Do all lawyers even know what the obligations of taxpayers are as to record-keeping, record producing, and question answering? The answer seems to be 'No'. For this reason, I wrote to Commissioner Cohen on April 17, 1967, and received his reply on July 7) 1967. ....The following are excerpts from Commissioner Cohen's reply, denominated US Government Memorandum CC:CL - 3487:
Good faith challenges in the form of Constitutional and other federally recognized privileges are of course recognized by the Service (IRS). For example, the privilege against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment may be a proper basis by an individual taxpayer for refusing to answer specific questions or to furnish his records.
"....Before recommending prosecution under section 7201 or 7203, the Service muSt usually develop enough information to show a substantial tax liability that was not met, in addition to criminal intent.
"....the Constitutional rights and other legal rights of all persons will be fully respected and observed."
It seems clear that the courts agree that any American may claim his rights under the Fifth Amendment, and so long as he submits a return stating his position on each question so treated, may refuse to provide the IRS with the details of his financial affairs. Will the IRS really stand still for that? The following seem to indicate that they must:
US vs. Lombardo, 228 F 980: "....to penalize the failure to give a statement which is self-incriminatory, is beyond the power of Congress."
Miller vs. US, 230 F 486 at 489: "The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime."
Miranda vs. Arizona, 380 US 436: "Where fundamental rights under the Constitution are involved there can be no rule-making or legislation which can abrogate them."
Sherar vs Cullen, 481 F 2d 946: "....there can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of his exercise of Constitutional rights."
Marchetti vs US, 390 US 39 at page 57: "....The Government's anxiety to obtain information known to a private individual does not without more render that information public; if it did no room would remain for the application of the Constitutional privilege. Nor does it stamp imformation with a public character that the Government has formalized its demands in the attire of a statute; if this alone were sufficient, the Constitutional privilege could be entirely abrogated by any Act of Congress."
Lefkowitz vs. Turley, 414 US 70: "For asserting the privilege against self-incrimination, the respondent is to 'suffer no penalty' (Malloy, supra at 8); he is to suffer no 'economic sanctions', or loss of his means of livlihood".
Now it comes as no surprise to me, a firm believer in the justness of our Constitution, that our courts uphold the right of Americans under the Fifth Amendment in the preparing of the income tax return Form 1040. However, the reaction of the IRS strikes me a little strange. I find nowhere in the IRS tax return filing instructions the warning that the answers to the questions asked by the IRS are privileged, protected by the Fifth Amendment, nor do I find a warning that any answer I choose to give willingly may potentially be used against me in a criminal proceeding in a court of law.
It has been my understanding that even the lowliest of potheads, even the basest of thieves and murderers must by law be advised of their Constitutional rights and offered the opportunity to exercise them, and where information is extracted from defendants without this advice having been given, the defendant's Constitutional rights have been violated. I refer to:
Miranda vs Arizona, 380 US 436: "Constitutional foundation underlying the privilege against self-incrimination is the respect a government, state or federal, must accord to the dignity and integrity of its citizens.
....the privilege against self-incrimination protects the individual from being compelled to incriminate himself in any manner....
....Where rights secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no rule-making or legislation which would abrogate them....
....Privilege against self-incrimination is fulfilled only when person is guaranteed the right to remain silent unless he chooses to speak in the unfettered exercise of his own will."
Yet the IRS presents its request for this privileged information in the form of instructions to provide the potentially incriminating testimony, implying that its rules and instructions carry the weight of laws, and must not therefore be disobeyed. Without warning that it is doing so, the IRS instructs each taxpaying American to waive his Fifth Amendment right and testify against himself. When the aforementioned pothead is arraigned and it is found that the Miranda Warnings were not given to him prior to his being called upon to account for his actions, the case is often dismissed for improper police procedure having violated the citizen's rights. Is the IRS really immune from this safeguard of the citizens' rights, or do the courts merely turn their heads where federal revenues are involved? Perhaps the IRS is let off the hook because the compelling force of its instructions is merely implied by giving the IRS rules the form of law. Even if this practice by the IRS should happen to be legal, it is a far cry from and no credit to the American spirit of fairness and honesty, Mr. President, and it smacks of a deliberate effort to take advantage of the citizens' ignorance of the Constitution in order to insure an expeditious flow of tax revenue to keep the pork barrels filled.
Curiously, I find that the courts are not unaware of this. I find the following most revealing:
US vs Dickerson, 413 F 2d 1111: "Only the rare taxpayer would be likely to know that he could refuse to produce his records to IRS agents.... Who would believe the ironic truth that the cooperative taxpayer fares much worse that the individual who relies upon his Constitutional rights."
I support the Constitution and I prefer to fully exercise all of my guaranteed rights. However, this is not to say that I would not of my own good will submit a complete and honest return and pay such tax as I feel to be Constitutional and just. But there is another problem.
My research suggests that if I waive my Fifth Amendment right and follow the instructions of the IRS in filling out my Form 1040, I cannot help but commit certain crimes, including perjury and conspiracy. I find this most distressing, and in good faith I feel I ought to refrain from following those instructions until you can show me how I can do so without conspiring to violate the Constitution or making false statements.
At the bottom of the Form 1040 I find: "Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return, including accompanying schedules and statements, and to the best of my knowledge and belief, it is true, correct, and complete."
I understand this to be taken in the most literal sense, and that I may be justly prosecuted for perjury if I deliberately sign a return bearing a statement I believe to be false. The IRS instructions direct me to answer several questions, each answer indicating that I earned some number of dollars. It is on this point that I am confused. I am confused as to what a dollar really is.
My research in the Constitution indicates that a dollar is not necessarily the same as "legal tender" or a "Federal Reserve Note (FRN)". In the United States Constitution (Article 1, Section 8), I find:
"The Congress shall have the power to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the standard of weights and measures.
And in the Unites States Constitution (Article 1, Section 10), I find:
"No state shall make anything but gold or silver tender in payment of debts."
I understand this to mean that Congress shall have absolute authority to print or coin money and to regulate the standards of weights and measurements. My study indicates that Congress designated twelve inches to be one foot, sixteen ounces to be one pound, and a certain amount of gold or silver to be one dollar. The Coinage Acts of Congress starting in 1792 established that 412.5 grains of silver 90% fine represented the median or Standard dollar in which the moneys of account of the US should thereafter be maintained, and that such a standard should be binding in the Courts of the United States. A silver dollar contains the required 412.5 grains of silver. It is not an IOU, a promise to pay, nor is it redeemable in anything or "backed" by anything. It is of itself a dollar as defined by the US Constitution and Federal Law.
I cannot find that the content of the standard dollar has ever been changed, although it says in Title 31, USC, section 821 that the President can change it if he wishes. The number of grains of gold which constitute a dollar has been changed four times by Congress, and the latest definition in Title 31, USC, section 449 reads: "....new par value of the dollar or $1 equals 0.8289988 Special Drawing Right, or the equivalent in terms of gold, of forty-two and two-ninths dollars per fine ounce of gold."
The US Constitution, Federal Law, and the US Coinage Acts have defined the dollar as a coin containing a certain number of grains of silver or gold. I understand then that the Congress designated the foot to be a unit of length, a pound to be a unit of weight, and the dollar to be a unit of money, consisting of a quantity of~silver or gold. Conceivably, the foot could be designated to be fourteen inches, or the pound to be twelve ounces, or the dollar to be only 300 grains of silver, but if Congress were to say that a foot should have no length, or a pound should have no weight, or a dollar should have no silver or gold, the Constitutional definition would be violated.
Thus the dollar is not an abstract relationship of values, but a quantity of silver or gold having real value of itself. The Congress and the President are given authority to change the amount of silver of gold in a dollar, but short of a Constitutional Amendment, do not have power to make anything a dollar which is not some quantity of silver or gold. To the best of my knowledge, no such Amendment has been passed by Congress.
In 1913, Congress granted the Treasury Department the authority to issue paper money. There has been some question as to the Constitutionality of this. The Constitution does not say that a dollar is "backed" by gold; the Constitution says the dollar is gold. The move was justified by saying that the new notes were not claimed to be dollars, but merely represented legal gold or silver dollars, and that they could be redeemed for legal dollars upon demand from the Treasury of the United States. Therefore a person who possessed a Gold Certificate might correctly say that he personally owned a legal gold dollar which was being held for him by the Treasury of the United States. The bearer could honestly say then, that if he received a Silver or Gold Certificate, he had received a dollar as income. The certificate was legal tender, but not of itself a dollar.
Now it is my understanding that the Constitution specifies that only the Congress, and neither the several states nor any private person or institution shall have power to coin money or to regulate the value thereof. However, shortly after granting the Treasury the authority to print money, the Congress delegated the power to print and regulate the value of this bearer paper to a private institution called the Federal Reserve Board. This group of bankers promptly issued to the Treasury more notes that the Treasury had dollars to pay on demand for them. I can't say for sure whether or not that was legal, but it certainly doesn't sound honest for the government to promise to pay to its citizens money it didn't have. The justification was that a certain percentage of the number of FRNs would be kept in gold to cover the citizens' occasional desires to redeem their notes for coin, but that familiarity with and trust in the convenient notes would make it unlikely that the citizens would place a demand for coin upon the Treasury greater than the real money held in reserve could cover. It seems that the government actually gave a private group of international bankers the right to create their own form of money, and then accepted that form of money as the usual tender for conducting the business of the United States of America, thus passing control of our nation's financial affairs from the Congress to those privileged private persons. Was that a Constitutional act? It does not appear so to the best of my understanding, and I don't understand how such a thing could have been permitted to happen.
Then a strange series of events took place. The gold dollars were withdrawn from circulation, and all those persons who owned gold dollars were instructed to trade those gold dollars for silver dollars or silver certificates. Then in 1968, practically unnoticed in the holocaust of losing an unpopular war and suffering domestic strife, President Johnson authorized the Federal Reserve System to issue new notes which were significantly different from all others previously issued (Public Law 90-269). This law repudiated the government's promise to pay lawful money for Federals Reserve Notes. Is it really legal for the President to declare that the debts of the United States are no longer binding? Does Public Law 90-269 really make void Title 12, USC, section 411: "Federal Reserve Notes shall be redeemed in lawful money on demand at the Treasury Department of the United states, ....or at any Federal Reserve Bank."
Legal or not, the Federal Reserve System instructed us to trade our silver certificates, and thereby our silver, for non-redeemable trading paper written on a private bank and promising to pay nothing. Now the Treasury not only refuses to give me any legal dollars for these new FRNs, it also refuses to honor its old silver and gold certificates. If I take gold certificates, silver certificates, U.S. Notes, or FRNs to the Treasury today, they inform me that they no longer pay out lawful money for them, and that in fact they don't have any lawful money to pay out.
So where are all those valuable gold and silver coins now? Who has all that gold and silver we Americans once owned? Am I to understand that the Treasury of the United States is bankrupt of legal money, and that our country is operating solely on the credit extended to us in the form of trade certificates issued by a privately owned bank? And that furthermore, in return for issuing to us these worthless notes, these Idon'tOU's, that organization of bankers confiscated -- that is, "took out of circulation" -- all of those gold and silver legal and Constitutional American dollars that the Treasury had been trusted to hold for its citizens?
Am I wrong, Mr. President? Were those gold and silver dollars held for private persons not the property of those individuals? And were not those Gold and Silver Certificates legal and binding contracts to pay Constitutional money, made between the Treasury of the United States and the private citizens who held them? Can the Congress actually take upon itself to unilaterally declare those contracts null and void, or does the Treasury merely refuse to make payment on what is still a legal debt? When the Federal Reserve System issued its unbacked paper in return for the pre-1968 promisory notes and withdrew all the legal money from circulation, did that not constitute a collective swindle of all those privately owned Constitutional dollars, the real silver and gold we once owned? Is that not a crime, Sir? I know it would be a crime if I robbed the bank; is it not a crime if the bank robs me? Does the Congress have the power to grant a private institution permission to commit crime against the citizen? To the best of my understanding, it does not. I wonder if the Congress has the power to prevent the bank from committing that crime. The Constitution demands that it must, but it seems that money talks in this country, and de facto control is control, no matter who stands on the bridge of the ship of state wearing a cocked hat and a big grin.
Perhaps you begin to see my dilemma. If FRNs are not dollars as the Constitution defines them, then I cannot state on my Form 1040 that I received any dollars without making a false statement and thereby committing perjury. If, on the other hand, I choose to overlook this little industrial metals pilferage and say that the difference between a paper FRN and a legal Gold Dollar is merely a bookkeeping technicality, a little white lie told in the interest of the national well-being, then I could conceivably put some statement on my Form 1040 claiming that I earned some dollars last year. The IRS does not bother to inform me that FRNs are not legal dollars. They silently pretend they do not know, and encourage me by their instructions to report my FRNs as dollars, and to pay taxes accordingly.
Do you, Mr. President suggest that I, or any other American, should overlook the fact that our money system does not conform to the specifications set down in the Constitution? Do you suggest that we should claim that we have earned dollars, though according to the Constitution we have not? Surely you would not. After all, you swore in your Oath of Office to defend and uphold the Constitution. Surely you can show me that I am mistaken, and that such FRNs as I may come to hold can be used to get some Constitutional money somewhere at par. Perhaps a Constitutional Amendment has been passed -- and I missed it -- making paper FRNs the legal money in our land, and not those clumsy old metal collectors' items. Surely you can demonstrate to me that the gold and silver dollars held by the Treasury for us Americans are still secure, and were not used as collateral to obtain a loan in 1913 from the Federal Reserve Board in FRNs, and then repossessed in 1968. Surely you must have an answer.
If not, it would seem that the Congress has conspired with a group of bankers to violate the Constitution and thereby rob the citizens of this country of the entire contents of the Treasury, and that the Treasury, the IRS, and the courts of the land are participants in that conspiracy and its cover-up. This matter may not seem to be of great importance to some people. After all, it all hangs on a simple definition in the letter of one of our oldest laws. It may seem a nit-picking trifle compared to bugging an office to cheat an election, or a President's aide getting caught with a toot of cocaine up his nose. Yet the simple definitions in the letter of the law fill our prisons with the common variety of criminals. Should our government and the very powerful in our country then be judged by expediency and rationalization instead?
How about you, Mr. President? Do you support the Constitution as you have sworn to do, or do you condone the conspiracy to violate the Constitution in order to confiscate the gold and silver dollars of every American citizen, and thereby usurp the power of Congress? Did you claim on your tax return this year that you earned some dollars? Yes? Where did you get them? I'd like some too. Perhaps instead you received only FRNs like the rest of us, and committed the minor technical prevarication of calling them dollars to cover up the fact that all of our legal dollars have been taken from us. If the Constitution is to be taken literally, I believe that is a lie, Sir, and a deliberate and perjurative violation of your Oath. Isn't that an impeachable offense?
I am aware that it is no trifle to suggest that the President, the Congress, the Federal Reserve Board, the IRS, and every judge in the country are guilty of a crime of this magnitude. I sincerely hope that I am wrong, and I am prepared to apologize with my liberty if I have libeled anyone. You have publically stated that you are dedicated to the truth. I would like to believe you. So set me straight.
How can I follow the IRS tax return instructions without waiving my Constitutional rights under the Fifth Amendment?
How can I claim to have earned dollars, if I insist upon using the Constitutional definition of a dollar, without making a false statement and thereby perjuring myself?
If there is no legal definition of a dollar apart from the Constitutional definition, and there are no more Constitutional dollars, how can I claim that the FRNs I have received are dollars without tacetly condoning the violation of the Constitution's specifications for the legal conduct of our nation's coinage and trade affairs? That, Sir, would be conspiracy, would it not?
If you find that there are no answers to these questions which satisfy the letter of the Constitution, will you be the President to stand before the people and tell us the truth? If an Amendment to the Constitution is needed to legalize these bogus FRNs, then publically acknowledge our delinquency and call for the States to consider the Amendment. If we have been robbed by our own bank, then will you be the President who will risk career and perhaps life to bell the cat and give us back, if not our money, at least the dignity of freedom from national hypocrisy? If in order to perpetuate our present system we must violate the Constitution on a matter as fundamental as who controls the money, and then lie to the citizen in order to tax him, then I fear that the great American experiment has already failed. I would find that a deplorable tragedy and I call upon you to set things right so that America may survive as the nation she was conceived to be.
I expect an answer from you, Mr. President. Have I made a horrid and unjust accusation, or have you and those others I mentioned actually violated the Constitution and lied to us all to get our money?
I eagerly await your reply and remain,
Respectfully your devoted constituent,
James Nathan Post

Friday, February 4, 2011

ARE AMERICANS SINCERE?

If the intent to save America is sincere, Tea Partiers, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Libertarians, ALL -
must ban together to abolish "income" tax and transition in the American Consumer Tax!
www.AmericanConsumerTax.Blogspot.com
www.LandAndWaterUSA.com

Monday, January 31, 2011

AMERICAN CONSUMER TAX (ACT)

AMERICAN CONSUMER TAX (ACT)
INCOME TAX vs. THE AMERICAN CONSUMER TAX (ACT)

1. Where or when did taxation come from? Not exactly sure, but taxation of some sort, whether property, income, sales, etc., has been going on for millenniums. Romans taxed their subjects before Christ.
2. When did income taxation begin?
Not exactly sure when it started, but in 1848, Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto. Under Demand #2 of the ten point list of demands, Marx wrote "A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheCommunistManifesto). Presumably, this was done to develop class warfare.
Are we not experiencing class warfare now?
Isn't the Bush tax cut extension that was discussed and approved in December 2010 another example of class warfare?
3. Does the US government have the right to tax?
Under Article 2 Section 2 paragraph 3 of the U.S. Constitution, it is stated
"Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included in this Union, according to their respective numbers, ... "
Article 2 Section 8 paragraph 1 states: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises ... "
Article 2 Section 9 paragraph 4 states: "No Capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken."
Finally, the 16th Amendment allegedly gave power to the Congress to collect taxes on incomes from whatever source derived without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration.
4. What do you mean the 16th Amendment allegedly gave power to the Congress to collect taxes?
Some, like Bob Shultz of We the People Foundation, assert that the 16th
Amendment was never properly ratified. http://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org
Additionally, the 16th Amendment did not grant Congress the power to enforce the amendment. For example, in the 15th, 18th and 19th Amendments, it is unequivocally stated that the Congress have the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
This is not stated in the 16th Amendment.
5. Is there a law requiring income taxes be collected?
We've yet to find Constitutional law that requires Americans to pay income taxes. Sherry Jackson, Joe Bannister and John Turner are ex-IRS agents who preach there is no law requiring citizens to pay income taxes. Sherry Jackson was found guilty in a trial for various charges brought about by the IRS and is now in prison.
Joe Bannister recently beat two charges brought on by the IRS
http:Uwww.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=lll&contentid=2357&page=1
http:Uwww.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=lll&contentid=2357&page=2
There have been others who have gone to trial against the IRS just for asking: "Where is the law?"
Verneice Kugelin in 2003 and Tom Cryer in 2007 both won their cases against the IRS based on "Where is the law" argument.
6. If the 16th Amendment granted the Congress the right to directly tax people, but the Congress doesn't have the power to enforce it and there doesn't appear to be any law requiring citizens to pay taxes, then how or why are income taxes being collected?
Title 26 of the United States Code provides the regulations for taxation. Normally, a law has to be in force before regs can be written. Seemingly, the IRS goes about its business based on these regs. However, in "Cracking the Code" by Pete Hendrickson and "IRS Humbug" by Frank Humbug both men state Americans do not have to pay income taxes unless they are government workers. Their beliefs are based on their analyses of the IRS Code in Title 26.
7. When did income taxation begin in the USA?
The 16th Amendment was allegedly ratified in 1913. First income tax collections began in 1916.
8. The Constitution allows direct taxation of the people based on census apportionment, the 16th Amendment said apportionment isn't required, but the Congress doesn't appear to have the power to enforce the 16th Amendment, and there doesn't appear to be any law requiring direct income taxation of the people, but taxation occurs because of the IRS Code of regulations which are supposed to come from law, this is all very confusing.
What does the Supreme Court have to say about all this?
In the 1881 Springer, the 1895 Pollock, the 1916 Brushaber, and the 1937 Steward Machinery decisions, the Supreme Court stated there shall be no direct taxation of the people. Please note two decisions before and two decisions after ratification of the 16th Amendment the Supreme Court stated there shall be no direct taxation of the people.
9. There seems to be a lot of contradictions, convolutions, and confusion involving the income tax. What is going on here?
True. The IRS collects taxes, and when people disagree the IRS usually wins.
We are not going to comment on why they win, but we are certain a lot of angst could be eliminated, and fairness in taxation could be brought about if we were to:
a) Abolish income tax in its entirety.
b) Repeal the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

c) Replace it with common sense taxation (such as the American Consumer
Tax) as called for in the original Constitution by our Founding Fathers.
d) Close the "income" processing section of the IRS office.
10. How will I benefit if we abolished "income" tax?
You would keep your paycheck, and thereon be able to budget your own money.
11. What then, would be the government's income source?
Implement equal sales tax on most goods.
Services would be exempt.
12. Why ACT now?
It's the only sure way to turn around America, and will be done at some point in
our history. Why not today?
13. Who wants to ACT now?
All Citizens of the United States of America; regardless their political,
business affiliations, ethnicity, gender, social-economic arena.
14. Who does not want to ACT now?
Anyone who wants to control you, steal your private property and redistribute
it to someone else.
Remember! Your paycheck is your private property!
15. How would ACT be implemented?
a) Before you sell a product you will be required to register with your state.
b) State provides registered seller an "ACT Sales LD." number.
c) State provides seller the simple formula which adjusts cash, debit, check and
credit receipts, and determines how much money state receives from your sales.
d) Seller chooses the formula and form in hard copy or software program.
e) Software would be downloaded on cash registers, and percentage
automatically deducted and sent daily to state only.
f) Software and hard copy formulas would be the "tax collectors." Never the seller!
16. Would any product be exempt?
Debatable; maybe medical and food items?
17. How can my state ACT now?
* ACT registrations
* ACT enforcement
* ACT collections
* ACT Sales LD. data base
* Agreement with federal as to dollar amount (%) sent to federal
18. What happens if I ACT now?
You will be able to keep your entire paycheck!
What you earn will be no one's business except yours!
Finally - you'll know your true earnings, and enjoy budgeting, saving, investing
and spending it!

You can work like everything, and know the federal government won't penalize
you for" earning too much."
19. Are there other benefits?
a) Federal spending will be reined in to handle only those areas as outlined in
our U.S. Constitution.
b) Ends the costly processing fees that accrue in federal will give states a
higher yield on ACT monies collected.
c) Instead of sending your withholding tax to federal, your employer could
give that money to you.
d) Countless hours and money wasted calculating dollars and interpreting
elusive tax codes will be freed up to produce essential products.
e) Employers would be able to pass on savings to their employees, build
infrastructure, and produce more products.
f) Each person who sets foot on U.S. soil would help re-build America, each
time they purchased something.
g) Non-discriminatory, ACT would give illegal immigrants, tourists, drug
dealers, whomever,
an opportunity to work together and contribute to the re-building of America.
h) Those who off-shore money and jobs, would no longer do so. They'd keep it in America, increase deposits and improve financial stability of banks.
I) Banks would loan money, thereby capitalizing businesses that produce and
provide goods. services and jobs.
Commentary
The identification and taxing of ones personal income needs to be stopped now.
ACT should not be permanent; it should instead be used as a transitional tool to
eventually return us to the United States Constitutional defines (tariffs, no taxation of natural born) of collecting taxes.
Honest citizens who made mistakes on their tax forms must be de-criminalized.
Class warfare, and the intrusive, unfair powers of IRS must be stopped.
Hypothesis: Under a 10% ACT, Joe the plumber would spend $10.00 on a $100.00 wrench compared to Donald Trump's spending $1,000,000 on a 10 million dollar jet.
Charitable citizens would have more to give to their neighbor in need.
ACT would generate enthusiasm and incentive for the creators to create, entrepreneurs to take risks, and venture capitalists to invest.
Manufacturers returning to U.S. soil would create jobs and recharge our economy.
You would buy their products, pay taxes on them, and so the circle grows.
States would (rightfully) handle their own unique education, medical, welfare,
road needs.
Onerous policies like death tax, conservation easements, will become moot.
Law makers will have opportunity to address more important matters.
Even the lowest ACT tax % will generate more monies than taxing incomes.
What you should know.
To date, not one entity has in earnest addressed abolishing "income" tax and transitioning in the American Consumer Tax (ACT) - or a comparable fair tax.
Encourage your elected officials to get bold and courageously abolish income tax and implement ACT. That would force Federal's out of control spending to a stop, and turn around our economy today!
ACT would correct federal spending to its original defines under the U.S. Constitution, resulting in the "reining in federal spending."
Your income is your Private Property. No entity has the right to take it. This is called stealing.
No entity has the right to know how much you earn. This is an invasion of your privacy. Your Constitution guards against such unscrupulous actions.
There should never be a discussion regarding the "income" levels that should or should not be taxed.
Some possible ways ACT tax can be figured.
Determine how much each state spends protecting itself from federal actions (Examples: Christie suit in N.J., multi-state suits on Obamacare, DOI, EPA, eminent domain...).
Determine how much each state spends performing duties that federal government should, but fails to perform (includes border protection, illegal immigration, fair trade).
Determine how much money is lost through the accrued cost of looping through D.C. (ACT monies collected and kept in states will enjoy a higher yield.).
Knowledge and adjustment of these factors will help establish percentage of ACT each state could collect, and help identify percentage each state could send to federal.
Discussion: www.AmericanConsumerTax.Blogspot.com
www.LandAndWaterUSA.com

Monday, November 15, 2010

CONGRESSWOMAN MICHELE BACHMANN GIVEN ACT 11/15/10!

D.C. 11/15/10
Today in Washington D.C., the American Consumer Tax (ACT) was hand delivered to Congresswoman Michele Bachman!
AMERICAN CONSUMER TAX (ACT)
You can ACT now in 3 easy steps!
1) Abolish income tax in its entirety.
Repeal the 16th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and replace it with common
sense taxation, as called for in the original Constitution by the Founding Fathers.
Close IRS office.
2) You keep your paycheck.
Budget your own money.
3) Implement equal sales tax on all goods.
Services exempt.
Why ACT now?
It's the only sure way to turn around America.
Who wants to ACT now?
All United States of America Citizens; regardless their political, religious, business affiliations, ethnicity, gender, social-economic arena.
Who does not want to ACT now?
How could anyone not want ACT? May only those who want to control you and take your paycheck. (Changed per suggestion in comments at the end.)
How to ACT now:
a) Before you sell a product you will be required to register with your state.
b) State provides registered seller an "ACT Sales I.D." number.
c) State provides seller the simple formula which adjusts cash, debit, check and credit receipts,
and determines how much money state receives from your sales.
d) Depending on duration of sales (One day garage sale, or year round retailer), seller
may choose the formula and form in hard copy or software program.
e) Software would be downloaded on cash registers, and percentage automatically
deducted and sent to state on daily basis.
f ) Software or hard copy formula would be the "tax collectors." Not the seller!
Would any product be exempt?
No
How can my state ACT now?
Your state will be responsible for:
* ACT registrations
* ACT enforcement
* ACT collections
* ACT Sales I.D. data base
* Agreement with federal as to dollar amount (%) sent to federal
What happens if you ACT now?
You will be able to keep your entire paycheck!
What you earn will be no one's business except yours!
Finally - you'll know your true earnings, and enjoy budgeting, saving, investing and spending it!
You can work like everything, and know the federal government won't penalize you for "earning too much."
More Benefits
1) Federal spending will be reined in to handling only those areas as outlined in our U.S. Constitution.
2) Ending the costly processing fees that accrue in federal will give states a higher yield on ACT monies collected.
3) Instead of sending your withholding tax to federal, your employer will be able to give that money directly to you!
4) Countless hours and money wasted calculating dollars and interpreting elusive tax codes will be freed up to produce.
5) Employers would be able to pass on savings to their employees, build infrastructure, and produce more products.
6) Each person who sets foot on U.S. soil would help American Citizens, each time they purchased something.
7) Non-discriminatory, ACT would give illegal immigrants, tourists, drug dealers, whomever,
an opportunity to work together and contribute to the re-building of America.
8) Those who off-shore their money would no longer have reason to do so.
They'd keep their money in America, increase deposits and improve financial stability of banks.
9) Banks would loan money, thereby capitalizing businesses that produce and provide goods and services.
FACTS
Income tax is un-constitutional. It can be and must be completely dissolved.
Honest citizens who made mistakes on their tax forms need to be de-criminalized.
Class warfare, and the invasive, unfair powers of IRS will end.
An implementation hypothesis: Under a 20% ACT, Joe the plumber would spend $20.00 on a $100.00 wrench,
whereas Donald Trump would spend $200,000 on million dollar jet, and Margie the
medical marijuana user would spend $200.00 on a thousand dollar prescription.
Charitable citizens would have more to give to their neighbor in need.
ACT would generate enthusiasm and incentive for the creators to create, entrepreneurs to take risks and venture capitalists to invest. Manufacturing will reinstall on U.S. soil,
jobs would be created, consumers
would buy...and so the circle would continue.
States would rightfully handle their own unique education, medical, welfare, road needs.
Federal would be forced to rein in spending and stay within the U.S. Constitution defines which include: international defense, trade, highways/skyways/byways.
Onerous policies like death tax will become moot; law makers will have opportunity to address critical matters instead of conjuring ways to steal your paycheck.
ACT will generate more monies than taxing incomes.
BROUGHT TO YOU BY ME:______CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA!
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COMMENTS: PLEASE JOIN THIS DEBATE!!

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The consumer tax will NOT close the IRS...it will simply transfer the badgering of the public at large to the retailer. If folks are in a position to retire, my guess is lots of them will do that rather than have to deal with the bookwork that will be dumped on them by this plan. Also.....there is no reward for increasing sales or growing businesses because the effort to do that will not be deductible. As a matter of interest...about 40% of my sales are International. Those sales didn't come slidinging down the rainbow like babies.....I had to go to those Countries and develop those markets....if the cost of doing that was not a deductible business cost....those sales wouldn't have occured....taxes on my net from those sales would have been non existant.
Also...the Fed income tax...won't go away...a National
sales tax will be introduced at a small amount and then increased as it "transitions"...but it won't do that...it will simply be another tax.
Wealthy folks like the consumption tax because they figure they can afford it...my guess is...lots of the things they will want to buy simply won't be there to buy.
Sharon
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Hi Sharon,
Hope you don't mind, but tomorrow (or soon...we're in D.C. now to the 25th) - I'll do a complilation of the terrific discussions on this.
This is terrific!
We're 'breaking the log jam!"
Thank You!
Roni

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Bear in mind Roni.....lots of folks do business on a layaway basis....
.I do quite a few sales that way...it is rare a person buys for instance a $3000 saddle with one check...usually a deposit....then some make payments...but most make second payment just before delivery.
Sometimes horse dies...person may die or become unable to ride....or changes horses and needs something different...so while most sales are completed, they all aren't. If I have to do a daily report on sales then something causes it to be cancelled, then I have to back thru that sale re: taxes paid. Also...I"m in Israel at this moment fitting horses for saddles....WHO would do my daily sales report? I would have to hire someone to do that who I now don't have to hire. I won't do that. I will retire...there will be no business taxes at all paid into the pot. OR...I'll move off shore to a place that is easier to do business in....and I won'[t be alone. Sharon
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Sharon,
But surely we're smart enough to figure out an honest way to abolish the un-constitutional "income' tax, and find an equitable way to tax us???
What might that be?
Or - we could just slide into the abyss.
ACT is initiating a "discussion" - letting the American public know things do not have to be the way bureaucrats are painting it.
I pray someone comes up with better ideas...Roni

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Our tax system isn't anything to be proud of.....Its worse than folks think because there re some private exemptions for some people that the public doesn't know about.....
However....it does have some good parts. A "clean accountant:" or someone like Co former Treasurer Mike Coffman could shape it up to be reasonable. One simply can't discard cost of sales and cost of product development and expect both to continue.
I've been shipping our things overseas since 1982....almost 30 years....I've placed over a million dollars worth of saddles in Switzerland alone....I had to go over there to make that happen...if it wasn't a business expense, I wouldn't have done it...thus the taxes on those sales would never have existed....there has to be incentive to encourage product and market development.....I KNOW a reasonable system can be put together...but dumping tax collection onto the retailer isn't the answer...Smiles Sharon
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Sharon
You make excellent points. All of which need to be taken into consideration - of course - when the entire mess is cleaned up and re-structured.
What I personally hate the most about "income" tax, is it's Gestapo like invasiveness into each and every person's private life.
A taxation method - that respects everyone's privacy - is the least "paper work" for anyone - dilutes "class warfare" and still collects revenue for the government to run on...is the goal. Roni

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Here in Israel, with all the taxes...VAT and income and local sales taxes...most folks end up with 22% of what they earn.....They have few alternatives...Sharon
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Roni -
I know this is hard to believe, it only took me 6 years to gather the history and connect the dots and believe it myself.
All forms of taxes directly and indirectly upon the natural born Americans are not only not necessary, they go against all the highest charters and actions of our land, e.g. The Laws of Nature and Nature's God (LONANG), the Declaration of Independence and the intent and sucess of the first American Revolution.
http://www.freedomforallseasons.org/FreedomFromTaxesNew.dwt.asp Jack
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Jack,
I couldn't post your highlighted information. Please direct post.
Thank you, Roni

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go roni go ...
ps: her favorite climate scientists are _ _ _ _ (who is a lawyer)and _ _ _ _. we may want to start campaigning our own brand of fearless cowboy-cowgirl science ...later when i can send, i will send you
a nice report by kimball rasmussen where the mention of cowboy and straight no-non-sense truth shine through ... what is this about beef prices increasing ... not joking ... packers are at it again?)DS
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OK DS,
Words from the "cowboy Chuck."
"Beef cattle numbers are at a fifty year low. Due to declining prices for the rancher. Many have gone out of business (gone broke).
When the economy improves and people start eating more beef, there will be a definite shortage of 'born and raised in the USA' beef.
There will come a time when there'll be a shortage of all food items - due to the adverse/counterproductive/political positions against domestic resource production." Roni

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i see the mechanism now ...
yes, it is that killer non-incentive when you have gangsters ruling our lives and livelihoods ...
this was a big news in NPR last week ...
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/11/131253386/as-beef-prices-stay-low-small-ranchers-cry-foul DS
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To: Cory@CoryGardner.com
Subject: Writing in support of Roni Bell's American Consumer Tax Act
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:42:49 -0500
From: publishing01@aol.com
CC: ronibell@msn.com
Nov. 16, 2010
Congressman-elect Cory Gardner,
I had the honor and privilege of working with Roni Bell on a couple of GOP congressional campaigns this fall -- Mike Fallon for U.S. House (Colo.1) and Isaac Hayes for U.S. House (IL-2). She's a dedicated American patriot.
I urge you to consider her American Consumer Tax Act as either a bill -- or a resolution seeking the sense of the Congress -- for the 112th Congress.
Looking forward to speaking with you in the future.
Very Respectfully,
Eugene J. Koprowski, Esq.
Managing Partner
Genome-Communications, LLP
http://www.genome-communications.com
703-314-2501
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Saturday, February 27, 2010

THE 2010 MEXICAN ROUNDUP

By Michael R. Shannon
Life ain’t easy for the politically sensitive, multicultural police chief.
Where I live in Virginia, Prince William County’s Jefe de la Policia Charlie Deane had a near miss. Authorities in Fairfax County, on our Northern border, arrested a Belgian accused of soliciting prostitution. A records check, conducted as part of the Federal “Secure Communities” program, revealed this miscreant was also an illegal alien.
Thank goodness this bad man was caught before he had a chance to cross the Occoquan.
Adding Belgian outreach to his already extensive Hispanic illegal alien outreach could have pushed Jefe Deane over the edge. There is only so much apologizing for enforcing the law that one man can do.
Reaching out to Belgians is particularly difficult in that you have to pander in two languages: Flemish and French. Plus Deane would have had to find a police officer with a French surname that spoke French and a Flemish surnamed officer that spoke Flemish otherwise his outreach would not be sincere.
Que Lastima!
That sort of complication makes last year’s Hispanic Contrition Tour (or Festival de Contrición) look like a model of efficiency, since one abject apology in Spanish covers about 15 countries and most of the landscapers in the county.
“Secure Communities” is actually sort of an SAT test for illegals. It only matches arrestees with a database of aliens who had a visa and overstayed, or aliens who were caught earlier and are making a return visit to the hoosegow.
If Juan is clever enough to avoid attracting attention after he wades the Rio Grande — not difficult under Deane’s lethargic enforcement regime — his name won’t be in the database. And if there is no database hit, then Juan remains in El Norte.
“Secure Communities” is a much less stringent affair than the 287g program that allows deputized local officials to determine whether or not to pursue deportation of illegals.
Of course if it were up to Deane the welcome mat (or alfombra de bienvenida) would never be withdrawn. He worries that a lot of crime is going unreported due to a victim’s immigration status, hence the constant reassurance that Deane’s heart is not really in immigration work.
But I wonder if when Charlie’s talking to “immigrant rights groups” do the terms “aiding and abetting” or “conspiracy” ever come to mind?
The audience for his outreach often is illegal or knows other illegals, harbors illegals, knowingly does business with illegals and generally approves of the mass violation of the nation’s borders. Yet our jefe is unperturbed.
Besides, if he’s groveling to Hispanics for enforcing the law, shouldn’t Deane be doing something on the same order to citizens for not enforcing the law?
It is interesting to compare Deane’s come–one–come–all (or viene uno que llega a todos) philosophy with that of Frederick County, MD Sheriff Charles Jenkins (trust me, the first name is the only similarity).
Jenkins’ policy is to target every inmate identified as an illegal for deportation, which amounts to about 9 percent of his jail population.
“One of the first persons we processed [for deportation] was driving under the influence of alcohol through a school zone during school hours at 30 miles over the speed limit," Jenkins told the Washington Post. "Is he any less of a threat to the community than a [top-level] offender? I would argue no."
A sentiment not shared by Deane who downplays illegal alien crime by explaining the most common violations are driving without a license, public intoxication and driving under the influence of alcohol.
That’s certain to be comforting to the taxpayer in an auto crash with an illegal who had neither a licencia de operador del automóvil or insurance.
It's a mere property crime, don’t you know, and besides the county furnishes Deane with his ride.
But now if looks like Charlie’s foot–dragging has finally paid off.
The census has come to town and thar’s gold in them thar Mexicans. Why our Board of Supervisor’s says Uncle Sam’s bounty on illegals is $1,000.00 a head and we want to count every last Jesús and Jesúsa.
That measly thousand bucks will just about cover the county fee for the ambulance ride and first visit to the emergency room for our newly welcome South–of–the–Border guest.
After Obama’s thousand bucks is gone, who pays for the schools and associated social costs that illegals bring?
Once the public gets past the whiplash–inducing political hypocrisy, I don’t foresee a counting problem. Just ask Charlie for the list of groups he’s apologized to and work up from there.
One thing is certain: Hispanics aren’t shy about lecturing the US on how to improve the illegal immigrant experience. Just this week Colombian fanny–shaker Shakira was in the White House to discuss “child development programs in Latin America.”
But she’s behind the curve. We already have a program for that. It’s called “anchor babies.”
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