[George from New England]

fyi: Two years back I used the Congress funded taxpayer advocate service. What a mistake — They only dragged the problem on for another year and gave me false advice. Thanks for nothing congress.

You are on your own when ANY fed agency targets you.

[CitizenUSA]

The byzantine complexity of tax law appears almost intentionally designed so that it can be used as a cudgel against anyone who doesn’t tow the line. Raise your head politically, start making some waves, and expect the bureaucratic state to find some legal excuse to hammer you back down. This is not what America was meant to be!

[rjsimmon]

People need to follow the law,

1. If the People need to follow the law, then our elected representatives need to follow the law as well.
2. The People need to follow a just and righteous law. Not every law passed follows that criteria.

[SkiKnee]

We can’t have an American people that just violate the law and just walk away from it... Hairy Reid.

Bundy did not violate any law. He would not comply with the regulations arbitrarily enforced by a federal agency.

[opus86]

Cain nails it here. Of course Bundy’s breaking the law - THAT’S THE POINT. The fed overwhelms you with regulations and demands to the point that you are forced to either fight back or give up, go out of business, pay the penalties, etc.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“No wonder people feel they have to come against them with guns. When the government gets like this, what else can you do?”

Not according to our new Messiah Glenn Beck. :-)

[Dick Bachert]

The United States government has direct ownership of almost 650 million acres of land (2.63 million square kilometers) -- nearly 30% of its total territory. These federal lands are used as military bases or testing grounds, nature parks and reserves and Indian reservations, or are leased to the private sector for commercial exploitation (e.g. forestry, mining, agriculture). They are managed by different administrations, such as the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the US Department of Defense, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Bureau of Reclamation or the Tennessee Valley Authority.

The above map details the percentage of state territory owned by the federal government.

[SamAdams76]

So why was Herman Cain driven out of the 2012 presidential race again?

Why can't we have somebody like this running our nation?

[redinIllinois]

There has never been a better time to take out the IRS.

THE FAIR TAX WOULD BE THE BIGGEST TRANSFER OF POWER FROM DC BACK TO THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY.

The FairTax is replacement, not reform. It replaces federal income taxes including personal, estate, gift, capital gains, alternative minimum, Social Security, Medicare, self-employment, and corporate taxes.

The FairTax brings jobs back to America by allowing companies to operate on our soil tax free rather than paying the current corporate income tax of 35 percent. Under the FairTax, various economists have predicted higher economic growth ranging from 7 to 14 percent over the current system, more jobs, and higher wages.

With the penalty for working harder and producing more removed, Americans are free to keep every dollar they earn, and a new era of economic growth and job creation is unleashed. Hidden taxes are history, Americans are able to save more, and businesses invest more. Capital formation, the real source of job creation and innovation, is facilitated. Gross domestic product (GDP) increases by an estimated 10.5 percent in the first year alone. The FairTax as proposed raises the economy’s capital stock by 42 percent, its labor supply by 4 percent, its output by 12 percent, and its real wage rate by 8 percent.

As U.S. companies and individuals repatriate, on a tax-free basis, income generated overseas, huge amounts of new capital flood into the United States. With such a huge capital supply, real interest rates remain low. Additionally, other international investors will seek to invest here to avoid taxes on income in their own countries, thereby further spurring the growth of our own economy.

[stevie_d_64]

This discussion thread just caught my eye...Does anyone here really know why Glen Beck had a problem with all those folks coming to Bundy’s defense, both armed and not armed???

I mean really???

I wonder what/where Beck’s threshold, or line in the sand really is???

I do believe the government backing off till the heat comes down is a setup for additional physical efforts to squeeze the Bundy’s and anyone else in the way out of that area...

I would not be out of line if the plans were to setup a situation where the government with the aid of the media mis-inform and out and out lie about any future violence and blame the Bundy’s and or the “armed” civilians opposing this intrusive government action...

I would be very careful of that extreme probability/potential situation...

Just my opinion...

[Elsie]

No wonder people feel they have to come against them with guns.

When the government gets like this, what else can you do?

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 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

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