Freakzilla wrote:SandRider wrote:Freakzilla wrote:Freakzilla wrote:Freakzilla wrote:I filed my taxes today, Obama is going to pay my mortgage and put gas in my car for a few months!
He's even going to pay for some much needed maintenance, a few traffic tickets, a license re-instatement fee...
Maybe some hardwood floors and some paint...
wait a minute. hold the phone ....
you're not paying taxes
either ?!?
isn't that ......
unpatriotic ?
I did pay federal and state tax. I just work the form. They're giving it back, and then some. Which is all silly. I figure I'd better take my handout before it all collapses.
I think you know where I stand on the federal income tax.
Surely I've raged long and hard on this board about it's
uncontitutionality and the Supreme Court decision of 1916 striking
down the law and being flat-out ignored by the Excecutive.
Again, folks, there
is no federal statute requiring American
citizens to pay federal taxes on wages from labor; what there
is
is a series of IRS
codes, which fall under laws governing enforcement
of federal regulations. I went thru the whole 'tax-revolt' idea back in the
70s, and sad to say, those cocksuckers won. Sort of, I just quit the fight -
it's easier to just fill out the paperwork to stop withholding and, as Freak
say, work the form. But I did know several men who never quit, fought
the IRS lawyers all the way to Federal District Court, where they didn't
"win" so much as the
IRS lawyers quit. Which is what always happens.
The IRS can't afford a Federal Court to be in a position to judge on the
acutal 'legality' of the personal income tax, and the Courts sure don't want
to hear it. Which is why such pressure is placed on the citizens at the ground
level, threats of fines for late filings, audits, etc. As long as everybody
acts
like it's a legal tax, and fills out some kind of paperwork, the system is safe
enough.
Fuck, I know I've raged about this before here, but I just can't help myself.
So why then is this illegal tax so damn important ? The revenue stream ?
Been thru this before here, I know - the revenue stream from the personal
federal income tax is tiny compared to other streams - the federal government
is not dependent on this tax - the tax is earmarked strictly for payment on interest
on the national debt. And millions of Americans get refunds,
most for the full amount of withholding.
So what's the purpose ? Redistribute the wealth of the top percentage
of earners ? Sort of, but that wasn't the idea in the 1890's when the
tax was first proposed, those folks were just looking for a new tax, any
tax, social engineering wasn't on their minds. Roosevelt Democrats came
up with the sliding scale idea. (My people, too - good old fasioned socialists
the likes of which this county will never see again.)
It started out as basic government "greed" if you will - but was economically
almost pointless after WWII. Yet the 1950s saw the great increase in the
IRS in staff and budget, and lawyers. I think it's real simple and clear,
if a bit conspiritorial - the feds had found their whip.
When Joe McCarthy decided there were Russian agents under his bed,
he used the IRS to investigate his list. Alot a people he personally didn't
trust or like but couldn't charge with anything found themselves audited
and financially ruined by convictions of "infractions" of the tax "code".
(talking here about Union Leaders, opposition Democrats, journalists,
Hollywood writers who wouldn't rat on their buddie on the BlackList,
&etc)
What's the most feared Federal Agency to the average, "law-abiding"
citizen ? It ain't the ATF.
Willie Nelson had the same crappy, corrupt accountants for years - he
started making large money in 1973, by 1978 he was the biggest selling
act in American music (this is true, too, he kicked the shit outta the Stones
and Springsteen and ABBA and everybody in concert ticket sales) After
the Honeysuckle Rose movie in 1980 he was making more money than
anybody could keep track of.
And the IRS wasn't concerned with him at all, until Farm Aid. Until Willie
started using his fame & voice to talk about the corporate farming methods
that were destroying real peoples lives. Until he became political.
Then, all of a sudden, Willie Nelson was a tax-dodger.
And sad to say, it worked too. Willie paid them their blood money,
and has not been anywhere near as active or vocal as he once was.
And the reward ? American Icon Status. Closed out that 9/11 live TV
show that was on all the broadcast networks right after the attack.
Throws his huge, influential voice into endorsements of fringe candidates
who couldn't win, anyway, even if Jesus Christ endorsed them (Hi Dennis !)
and a thousand more examples .....
dang. that made me tired.
granpa needs him a nap now ....