Posted on 03/07/2016 3:29:21 AM PST by HomerBohn
All over America the people are now scrambling to gather their records and receipts so that they can comply with the nation’s Byzantine tax laws. They file, usually by either purchasing software or the services of a CPA, and hope that they first, get a refund, and second, do not get audited.
If a refund is called for, American taxpayers rejoice that their benevolent benefactor has seen fit to give them back a share of what was stolen from them. The people consider it “free money.” It was… free money the feds could use while you couldn’t.
In any dealings with the Internal Revenue Service, and contrary to American jurisprudence, you are first considered guilty unless you can prove your innocence.
The IRS can reject your returns and require you to provide documentary evidence of all your financial transactions. Failure to provide all required documentary evidence — for whatever reason — will result in fines and penalties and possible jail time. There is little that sends chills down the spines of American “taxpayers” faster than a letter or call from an IRS functionary.
The IRS is nothing more than a blunt instrument used to beat Americans into compliance with a socialist, redistributionist, fascist government that passes itself off as a democracy. It gives a face of “legitimacy” to the government’s theft of our labor. But theft is theft whether the robbery is pulled off by a masked bandit or an agent of the state wearing a suit and tie.
In fact, theft by the state is much worse because if you are prepared or armed you can fend off the masked bandit, or perhaps hope the good agents of the state law enforcement apparatus may one day capture and prosecute the bandit and return your stolen goods, but there is no such defense against the state. There is no hope to recover the goods stolen from you by an agency of the government that enforces laws that are so convoluted that a question to a dozen IRS agents will render a dozen different answers, many of them contradictory. And there is essentially no appeal for a negative IRS result.
For 100 years the lie has promulgated that income taxes fund the government. Americans are taught from an early age to be a good “taxpayer” and to pay their “fair share.” This lie has gone so far that now the majority of the people buy into the notion that the government gets first dibs on our money and can withhold the amount that it deems is our fair share. Then, our benevolent government gives us some back after we file our return and we happily take our “refund.”
It has become so ingrained in the American experience that some companies have major marketing campaigns every year focused on getting “taxpayers” to use their refunds to buy things.
Using words spoken by Beardsley Ruml, chairman of the New York Federal Reserve from 1941 to 1946, we can dispel the widely believed myth that income taxes are needed for government income. Income taxes actually have nothing to do with providing income to the government.
In a famous speech he read before the American Bar Association during the last year of World War II, titled “Taxes for Revenue Are Obsolete,” Ruml said, “The necessity for a government to tax in order to maintain both its independence and its solvency is true for state and local governments, but it is not true for a national government.”
The speech was originally printed in “American Affairs” in the January, 1946 issue. The editor of “American Affairs” wrote: “His [Ruml’s] thesis is that given (1) control of a central banking system and (2) an inconvertible currency, a sovereign national government is finally free of money worries and need no longer levy taxes for the purpose of providing itself with revenue. All taxation, therefore, should be regarded from the point of view of social and economic consequences.”
To read the entire speech, go here.
In a similar vein, former Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President Darryl Francis had this to say in 1974: “Since the direct method of printing money to finance government expenditures is prohibited in the United States, the monetization of government deficits has occurred indirectly. Government debt is ultimately being financed by the creation of new money.”
In other words, the U.S. tax system is a system of social engineeering, control and redistribute the volume of “money,” and data mining.
Years of study and observation tell me that not one person in a million understands the income tax. The income tax is probably the greatest deception and fraud in history, because it is the foundation of a private monetary system The very few who do understand vomit every time they hear the word “democracy.”
I love America, but its rulers are alien to individual freedom. Since aliens possess complete power over us, then it follows that we have unknowingly become aliens ourselves in our own country. The income tax alone has destroyed liberty and freedom in America.
All modern wars — including the Civil War — have been financed by fiat-created money. Wars are not for patriotism and “democracy,” as we are propagandized. Wars are to kill, i.e., mass ritual murder. Big business in league with the satanic oligarchs reaps massive profits for the killing and sacrifice of young men (lambs) on all sides of combat. It’s been said that the job of armies is to kill people and break things. It’s simply the broken window fallacy writ large.
The deception of the income tax has made all this possible. I did not say that the income tax made all of the above possible. I said that it was the deception of the income tax.
The income tax produces no income or wealth for the government or for the oligarchy that owns the government. It is the false belief that the income tax produces income for the government that is the basis for all the deception that covers the fraud. It is the deception of the income tax that hides the super secret that the government gets everything it wants for nothing simply by the power of the Federal Reserve central bank to create “money” (credit).
The income tax is not a constitutional issue. It is not an issue of law or the tax code. The income tax is a system of deception, fraud and entrapment that is outside the law and the Constitution. It is indeed above the law. This is the reason that it goes on and on. No one has effectively gotten at the income tax because it is not a legal or constitutional issue.
Remember one thing: For the deception to go on and on, the people must be made to believe that income taxes provides income to the government. In so believing this, the herd believes in the myth that they should “pay their fair share.”
That “fair share” syndrome is one of the most powerful supports of and for the deception. It is altruistic nonsense that destroys reason and logical thought.
Where then does the government get its income to “pay” its expenses? We have already answered this by saying that all “money” (credit) that the government gets is created by the central bank. In its broadest definition, “money” (credit) is created by the Federal Reserve and all the commercial banks in the United States. Since it is created, there is no need for an income tax to produce income.
Thomas Jefferson warned that, “The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered.”
So the term “income tax” is totally misleading. The words do not refer to a tax or income but to a system of regulation. No matter what our thoughts are on human liberty, our lives are controlled by this rot of deception.
The income tax deception is compounded by the ideas of “federal budgets” and “federal debt.” There is no federal debt. The term “federal debt” implies that we owe the amount stolen from us.
An entity that creates credit out of nothing and “pays” it for real assets and production is not assuming a debt by any definition. It is stealing and calling the theft debt.
The creation and control of all credit in the hands of a central bank (government) is the fifth plank of the Communist Manifesto. Look honestly at the American monetary system and you are looking tyranny and slavery in the face.
A reform that continues to depend on taxing income will keep the IRS in place. It may be rebranded. It may be chastened for a time, but it will be there to come clawing back into your life in due course.
unless you are Al Sharpton, Charlie Rangel or Jesse Jackson.
Our only salvation was the repealing of the 16th Amendment but it is even too late for that now.
The author keeps referring to the US as a democracy...
We are not a democracy, we are a republic!
This is an important distinction that keeps getting convoluted and / or obfuscated (by design in many cases).
And we’re not even a republic any longer, rather we’ve allowed our now pitiful nation to morph into an oligarchy.
Or Robert Mercer.
This article is a hot, steaming pile of crap.
Income taxes aren’t a fraud or a deception on anyone, they’re just a bad way to raise revenue. A consumption tax being the obvious alternative.
How about that? We could throw out about 70,000 pages of regulatory details and rules and nobody would have any reason to lobby for this or that special treatment in the future.
Not to mention that we could get rid of maybe 90-95,000 of our 100,000 IRS employees.
A tax that encourages investment. No special treatment possible. I’ll vote for that and anyone who supports it every single time.
The so called Byzantine tax law is far worse...... it is American
With 70,000 pages of rules, most of which will not be interpreted the same way by any two IRS representatives, anyone can be controlled under penalty of law. The ‘money’ is always secondary. The control is key.
The power to tax is the power to destroy. — Edmund Burke
Imagine the hundreds of millions of dollars each year that we would save by having a flat consumption tax?
It means after taking max on my 401(k), withholding the max plus more, all charity donations, and any deductions I can I will still get to write a 5 figure check on top of what was withheld.
We’re practically in the same boat, but I pay the full boat on the social insecurity ‘benefits’ (goobermint term) that I have paid into since age 14. If I’d had that money invested in the lowest return mutual fund I’d be worth an additional several millions.
Two thumbs up for your posting!
My daughter’s friend from high school is a CPA and a field auditor for the IRS. Part of her job is to spend time on the pistol range. Oh, and she wears a bulletproof vest on her field appointments.
The US is eerily like how the USSR was described to me in public school in the 1960’s. They are not your friend.
Me too. I started paying into the scheme in 1975. Sure would like to have that money somewhere else.
Note to self: Head shots if attacked by IRS agents.
I am not sure what you mean by withholding the max on your 401k “plus more”.
The max you can defer from taxable earnings by annually contributing to your 401k is $18,000 and an additional $6,000 if you are over 50. If you had excess contributions, you may notify your plan administrator before April 15 of the following year that you would like the excess deferral amount, adjusted for any gains and losses, to be paid from the plan. The plan must then pay you that amount plus allocable earnings by April 15 of the year following the year in which the excess occurred. In the year in which the excess contribution was paid, but you will receive a 1099 and will have to claim it as taxable income in the year it was refunded.
Or perhaps you are by saying “withholding the max plus more” meaning what is withheld from your employment wages per what you submitted on your W-4.
If you and or your spouse only had employer wages (W-2) as income; no income from outside of employment (i.e. self-employment business profits or any capital gains on outside investments, real estate sales, etc.), plus were entitled to deductions for charitable contributions, mortgage interest, etc. on top, there should be no reason for you to have to write a check for an additional $5k on top of what was withheld from your wages. Something sounds very wrong with that to me.
FWIW, you might want to look at your pay statements and W-2 from your employer to ensure they are actually withholding that which you submitted on your W-4, what you are claiming – Single -zero or Married -5 or requesting an additional flat dollar amount to be withheld on top for examples. You might also want to look at your W-2 to make sure that your contributions to your 401k are being excluded from your W-2 Box 1 wages – i.e. your federal taxable wages.
I’ve seen cases were a payroll department misses or doesn’t update what the employee submitted on their W-4, resulting in an under withholding, or there is an error in how they report 401k or Section 125 qualified -pre-tax health insurance deductions on a W-2, but while that is rare, it is worth looking into.
I monitor my employer withholding and at mid-year using a W-4 calculator, and again if I get a pay raise or my pre-tax deductions change, I re-evaluate whether I am being over or under withheld and submit a new W-4 accordingly. FWIW, you can submit a new W-4 to your employer at any time during the year and change your withholding as often as you like, however your employer/PR department has 30 days after you submit to enact the change.
http://budgeting.thenest.com/can-change-payroll-exemptions-23133.html
https://www.irs.gov/Individuals/IRS-Withholding-Calculator
Using this method, I’ve never had a refund or owed taxes on April 15th of more than $5 one way or another over the last 10 years, including some years when I had some modest 1099 income from a small side business outside of my regular employment.
Last year I owed the IRS less than $1 but because they don’t collect on amounts less than $1, I got to keep the .65 I ended up owing : ),
Seriously, something doesn’t sound right about you having to owe an additional $5k over what you had withheld from employment income.
I am not a CPA nor am I a tax accountant and I cannot give you tax advise but I do know PR and PR taxes very well. If you are interested, FReepmail me and I would be happy to look into it for you as to whether your employer is withholding correctly.
Yep, but only in self defence. :-)
Thus the words “if attacked”...
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