Posted on 11/08/2004 3:51:59 AM PST by Robert Drobot
SAN FRANCISCO - A California accountant who sends his children to Orthodox Jewish schools is to appear in federal court this morning to attempt to force the Internal Revenue Service to grant him the same tax deduction for religious instruction that it accords to members of the Church of Scientology.
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My hat's off to Mr. Michael Sklar!
He's made of the stuff that was common to Americans sixty years ago.
Today, he, you, and I are numbers to be squeezed for every nickel we've got by a juggernaut bureaucracy which would just as soon take your first born as they would the gold teeth out of your mother's head.
A flat tax would get rid of the army of CPA's, lawyers, and those gun packing IRS colection hoods - sewer scum of America, each.
I'd like to nominate Mr. Sklar as the next chairman of the Federal Reserve System.
The cynical will tell you your chasing windmills, Mr. Sklar; they just don't have the brass to do what your doing.
Mr. Michael Sklar, American Hero! Challenging corrution and hypocrisy. GO MIKE GO!
Mr. Michael Sklar, American Hero! Challenging corruption and hypocrisy. GO MIKE GO!
The science fiction content of Scientology is revealed to them after they have reached the state they call "Clear", meaning freed from the aberrations of the mind. However, perhaps "brainwashed" would be a more applicable word to describe the mental state of someone who has survived the near entire delusional contents of their subconscious mind brought to the surface and presented to them as "truth".
On the "advanced" levels (called OT levels) above the state of "Clear" they encounter the story of Xenu. Xenu was supposed to have gathered up all the overpopulation in this sector of the galaxy, brought them to Earth and then exterminated them using hydrogen bombs. The souls of these murdered people are then supposed to infest the body of everyone. They are called "body thetans". On the advanced levels of Scientology a person "audits out" these body thetans telepathically by getting them to re-experience their being exterminated by hydrogen bombs. So people on these levels assume all their bad thoughts and faulty memories are due to these body thetans infesting every part of their body and influencing them mentally. Many Scientologists go raving mad at this point if they have not done so already.
Actually achieving the state of clear means that they have cleared out your bank account.
Don't forget the part about humans evolving from clams... Seriously, everyone should check out xenu.net; it's hilarious and informative.
What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?
The taxidermist takes only your skin.
MARK TWAIN
Putting the insanity aside for a second, Michael Sklar is well within his rights. He is a legal truth-seeker. Heck, he could single-handedly bring about vouchers.
Wouldn't it be astonishing and ironic if he won, and we had the scientologists (of all people) to thank for vouchers? Talk about making lemonade out of lemons, finding good in the midst of complete evil!
It would be great if he won. Too bad it's the 9th Circuit...
The Ninth Circus Court of Schemiels
In New York City subway stations, there is a poster supposedly celebrating the 100th anniversary of the subway system. It's a fun, brightly-colored poster, done in a a "naive" style, showing all sorts of activity in a subway station. While waiting for my train, I started to pay closer attention to the figures in the poster. The whole thing is a subtle advertisement for $cientology. The figures are all wearing t-shirts with writing on them such as "Dianetics" (which is the so-called psychotherapy arm of the church of $cientology); another advertises the church's so-called detox and "purification" programs (which are supposed to "clear" the body of trace memories of drugs that supposedly everyone has tried at some point in the past) -- these programs (which are called "rundowns" by church members) are simply recruiting tools; they have no accepted medical value. Another t-shirt advertises a propaganda booklet written by their leader, L. Ron Hubbard, called "The Way to Happiness." Another shirt mentions the name of their in-house propaganda magazine, "Free Winds." Etc. I was shocked. Considering the screw-up the MTA made with the posters encouraging black youth to read (which embarrassingly states "Read Books. Get Brain.") showing an attractive girl sitting on the lap of a studious-looking fellow, I'm wondering if I should contact the MTA and let them know about the $cientology content of their anniversary poster.
Co$ is a huge presence in Los Angeles, where it owns more property in the town of Hollywood (which is basically a slum) than any other organization. It would be horrible if it started to appear publicly in New York as well.
Xenu Rocks!
As much as I despise the IRS, they're saints compared to Scientology. Invented by Hubbard, it is America's equivalent of islam of the brain problem. Mind numbed robots, pouring cash into an agenda. Course there is a lot of them in hollywierd, and you can count on them voting for a democrap or whoever they're told to vote for. Hope they get taken down!
I support the guy's effort.
Now re: flat tax.
1. Do you believe that the Flat tax on everyone would stay the Flat tax on everyone and Congress would not start tweaking it for various special interests until we are right back where we are now? The original tax was like 1% on income over a certain amount. Look what happened in 90 years.
2. Do you think it is acceptible to leave the IRS in place - which is the one way that the government has the right to know every thing about you, to know everything you do and thereby be able to control you - particularly as we move to an all electronic money environment? It's not sci-fi when a bureaucrat somewhere can deny you access to your funds with a keystroke. That day is here.
My belief is that we need to move to a consumption tax not only because it will let us make good economic decisions. We have to get the taxes visible so that the people can get a say in the size of the government that they are forced to finance. The Flat Tax doesn't do it.
Well, doggoneit, so that's the problem I'm having. Whenever I try channelling JP Morgan for financial advise, all I get is that voice telling me to nuke City Bank. It's interference from Xenu.
(Now, did I place that nuclear trigger in the laundry basket or litter box?)
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