Justice Dept. Brags about Violating the First Amendment

In the land of the free and the home of the brave, if you publish a book about avoiding taxes, you can be successfully prosecuted. The First Amendment applies only if your ideas aren’t too threatening. The Justice Department has vigorously pursued tax fraud scheme promoters to stop their activity and to warn would-be promoters [...]

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Tax Resistance Is as American as Apple Pie

Label tax resisters “terrorists” and voila, they may denied due process. Commenting on the suicide plane attack on an IRS office building in Austin, Texas, by tax resister Joe Stack, actor and tax protester Wesley Snipes shrugged his shoulders and said: “I think [tax revolt] was an issue even for the early colonists and the [...]

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The Underground Economy in the U.S. is Growing

There are many reasons for people to take their money off the grid, as this article points out. Not least of them is the measly yield one can expect on funds deposited with banks. The underground or “black” economy is rapidly rising, and the fault is mainly due to government policies. Here is the evidence. [...]

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Struggling Municipalities Printing Their Own Money

Locally produced scrip was a feature of the Great Depression. Last year, two Detroit tavern owners were sitting at the bar, sampling their beverages and bemoaning the local economy — no one in the city had cash, and when they did, they spent it in the suburbs. Then the pair hit on a solution: Print [...]

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Tax Resister Given a Virtual Life Sentence

Ed Brown’s “crime,” fundamentally, was his desire to be left the hell alone by the Feds. His sentence is 37 years–effectively life imprisonment. No word on whether or not the “stockpiling” of explosives and weapons was itself illegal. And the judge speaks with certainty of what Brown “would have” done had he not been apprehended. [...]

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The Goldman Sachs Offshore Tax Dodge

Remember last year when the Internal Revenue Service went after assets of U.S. citizens held in Swiss bank accounts? Why isn’t the IRS going after accounts in the Cayman Islands held by the likes of Goldman Sachs? Oh, I almost forgot, the IRS is the collections branch of the New York Federal Reserve, of which [...]

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Federal Parasites Owe $3 Billion in 2008 Taxes

File this under the “do as I say, not as I do” category. Our Federal overlords are a privileged class, so why should they pay taxes? As Leona Helmsley once said, “Only the little people pay taxes.” She was referring to chumps like you and me. “WASHINGTON – At a time when the White House [...]

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IRS Hires Hundreds of Parasites to Go after the Presumed Wealthy

The IRS calls it “international tax evasion.” Some of us call it “trying to keep the federally employed parasite class the hell away from the few assets that remain in the hands of private citizens.” “WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new Internal Revenue Service unit set up to catch rich tax cheats hiding their wealth in [...]

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