Posted on 10/04/2007 9:41:17 PM PDT by STARWISE
A couple convicted of tax evasion were arrested peacefully at their Plainfield home Thursday night after holing up at the fortress-like compound for months, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Ed and Elaine Brown were convicted on federal tax charges in January and refused to turn themselves in to authorities when they were sentenced in April to five years and three months in prison.
It was not immediately clear how they were taken into custody.
"We had no indication that the Browns intended to voluntarily surrender, so we had to move forward with an operation that promised the safest possible outcome. That day was today," U.S. Marshal Stephen Monier said in a news release.
Ed Brown, 65, and his wife, 67, have claimed the federal income tax is not legitimate.
Earlier this year, officials cut power and telephone service in an effort to ratchet up pressure on the couple convicted of scheming to avoid federal income taxes by hiding $1.9 million of income between 1996 and 2003.
After abandoning his federal trial and retreating to his home on 103 wooded acres, Ed Brown repeatedly said that any attempts to arrest him would result in a violent confrontation.
The home is on an isolated dirt road and includes a turret that offers a 360-degree view of the property and a driveway that is sometimes barricaded with sport utility vehicles.
Heavily armed police surrounded the home in June while they seized commercial property the couple owned in a neighboring town. SWAT teams, military and explosives vehicles marshaled in the tiny town and sparked rumors of a raid.
The Marshals Service said it was only for surveillance.
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Go take a look at his posting history. As far as I can tell, he's either a fed or he REALLY needs to get l#$%.
btt
I just chhecked out your freeper page. A fan of Thompson, Ingraham and Levin. You're pretty much perfect politically.
ping
And you are a doll ;) When you coming through Illinois again?
Don’t step in front of the freight train and tell it you have the right of way.
Work to get the route changed.
These people, wrong or right about their assertion, are toast. Their efforts would have been much better used to get the tax system changed.
These folks make 1.9 million. They did that by using the current system with all its flaws and blemishes. We could all make 1.9 mil and it would be worthless. I hate the give aways but the infrastructure and supporting our troops are sure good things.
In case you haven't figured it out yet, I detest tax cheats and tax protestors even more than I detest our absolutely deplorable current system of income taxation, so save the "statist government lackey" garbage for someone else.
12 posted on 10/05/2007 4:12:17 AM CDT by AntiScumbag
My goodness this is a very hostile man. He will implement the phrase "Going CPA"
Absolutely agree. This couple may be technically correct but nevertheless would have to pay the NRST with every purchase. And that would make these incidents nonexistent.
Under the FairTax there will be some elicit illegal sales and those will be prosecuted. But the Income tax is what programmers refer to as spaghetti code, it’s ugly and unmanageable. I guarantee there are all kinds of activities getting away with not paying the Income tax, and they are alot more egregious than this couple. This couple has the stupidity or courage depending on one’s view to make themselves visible as tax protestors. They will go to prison but so many will not get caught.
I talked with a consulting attorney member of the JTC, and he says the Income tax is hopeless for manageable enforcement. In order to get healthy compliance the IRS has to spend more in investigations and monitoring than it recovers. In other words, to recover $X billion in unpaid taxes requires $X+ billion to prosecute. Not so with the FairTax, The FairTax is much easier to enforce and it stays out of people’s lives.
As Congressman Linder says, who wants a tax system (like the Income tax) where the government knows more about you than you are willing to tell your own children?
Under the FairTax the only thing necessary to tell the government is the number in your household and that’s only if you want the rebate.
Income Tax versus FairTax iexample n a nutshell:
Income Tax
Supplier A 2%—> Supplier B 5%—> Retailer 16% —> 0% NRST
FairTax
Supplier A 0%—> Supplier B 0%—> Retailer 0% —> 23% NRST
The FairTax shunts all embedded taxes to the retail end of the supply chain and replaces them with the National Retail Sales Tax (NRST). It relieves American industry from unnecessary burdens allowing them more time to be productive and more efficient.
The only significant forces that are against the FairTax are lobbyists inside the beltway that are paid to game the tax code. They and whole lot of IRS employees are going to have to hit the pavement looking for new jobs. I’ll save no tears for them.
The Income tax was originally a flat tax and it has been twisted into the monstrosity it is today. Under Reagan’s tax reforms, the income tax was made much flatter again but since then there have been over 16,000 amendments to the code. A Flat Tax is an Income Tax waiting to morph into an Income Tax monstrosity.
By contrast the FairTax can only change one thing, the NRST rate, and that will be seen by everyone.
And the FairTax will immediately make American products and Services more competitive internationally because overseas there will be no NRST.
how have their rights been violated? There is a 16th amendment to the US Constitution that plainly makes the income tax legal
This is huge controversy but the Brown’s are correct. The problem is that the scam has been going on for so long now that everyone accepts it as normal. By scam I mean people that monkeyed the original code and edited it so many times as to make it difficult to determine how the code was morphed into something it was never intended to be.
I will give you my simplistic way of explaining the controversy and then I will give you two very recent cases where the original intent comes out. Both cases are fairly easy reading.
As for my simplistic explanation, start with the amendment:
Amendment XVI
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on ***incomes***, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
Here’s how the IRS applies it in their code:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on ***revenues***, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
The one word change creates a mountain of paperwork and tax code, and it enslaves us all.
Here are links to the first recent case:
http://www.lawmemo.com/blog/2006/08/no_tax_on_emoti.html
http://www.taxanalysts.com/www/features.nsf/Articles/6C978EC47789528D852571F000643F44?OpenDocument
Here’s the second recent case:
http://questforfairtrialinconcordnh.blogspot.com/2007/07/attorney-tom-cryer-wins-against-irs.html
The key to understanding the entire mess and scam is to understand the problem is rooted in the definition of the word ‘income’. Although the amendment says from whatever ‘source’ derived, it never explained what income meant, leaving it to the IRS to define it for us. When the amendment was passed the word income meant ‘gain’ from such revenues as rent.
Over the decades as Congressman Linder (FairTax) points out, the top 2% rich Americans who were the only ones required to pay income tax found out how to game the meaning of the word ‘income’. Today’s rich such as Warren Buffett or Teresa Heinz Kerry do not have any income, they have only ‘gains’, so they pay less than 15% and they pay no social security and no medicare taxes. The long and short is that the rich got smart and moved away from anything defined as ‘income’ and into things not defined as income.
But the important thing to know is the whole history is a game played around the word ‘income’. The original Income tax was capped at 7% and applied only to the top 2% of income earners. The original tax code was 14 pages long and with today’s font and formatting would fill only 9 pages. It doesn’t take much to understand that the present income tax is so large because in actuality it represents a war on the lower classes.
Once we become aware of how the Income tax is a scam on all of us, the next step is to understand its relation with the Federal Reserve. But that’s another thread.
The eye opener is in the question, what are federal income taxes used for?
Roads?
Education?
Medicare?
Social Security?
The answer to all is NO.
How about the military?
Historically the military was paid for by Corporate taxes. If you look at federal income and outlays for 2006 according to the IRS, borrowing to cover the deficit was 13% of the income, Corporate taxes 11% and military outlays 24%. This is not a coincidence that borrowing and Corporate taxes add exactly to military spending.
Page 83
http://www.unclefed.com/IRS-Forms/2006/i1040.pdf
Personal Income taxes comprising 38% of the total income went to pay for Social Programs, Physical and Human Development and interest on the debt. This last expense is most certainly waste because the Constitution gives Congress the lawful authority to make its own coin. In other words if the Federal Reserve was federalized bringing all its functions into the Department of the Treasury, the deficit would be wiped clean,
Enough of this.
The movement that will get revenues to the government and stop the insane war against the American people is called the FairTax movement:
Officially, White House tax-policy experts have spent the past year working on reform options to present to the president, but "economists and tax lobbyists close to the effort believe that Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill is serious about elevating tax reform on Washington's agenda," said the Post.
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"The Bush administration's plan to move toward a consumption-based tax is a winner on all fronts," says Chris Edwards, the libertarian CATO Institute's director of fiscal policy. "A consumption-based tax would be simpler, more efficient, pro-growth and fairer to taxpayers."
If this is true - it will be a blowout election for the pubbies - the cosponsors of the FAIR TAX bill are overwhelmingly republican.
The simple and basic difference between republicans and democrats is that republicans believe people are capable of running their own lives and therefore, they (the R. politicians) have no desire for a Gestapo-like tool (the IRS) for controlling their opponents through blackmail and intimidation. (We pretty much know the clintonistas have kept a lot of pubbies cowed due to info she got in her illegal FBI file-gate and in firing the head of the IRS and installing a buddy. And in the intimidation tactics - Ask Rush and O'Reilly, for example, who are audited each and every year! Audits are supposed to be randomly selected. Every year seems a bit too 'random'..
On the other hand, the dimRats would be lost without this tool - They feel omnipotent and better able to run our lives ...without the IRS, their goals of supreme power will be ashes. They will fight the FAIR TAX tooth and nail.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29637
If it's true that the Bush Administration has been quietly working on this - well, It's that's Texas poker player thing again...Do we have an "2008 surprise" coming up?
Oh please.
Does this look like a "fortress-like compound"?
http://www.keenefreepress.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=543&Itemid=46
It is October 
Which is a conundrum. How can the 16th amendment supercede the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th and 10th amendments all of which the IRS clearly violates?
For starters, you are forced to testify against yourself every April 15th.
Do you think you are “secure in your persons, papers and effects against unreasonable searches?”
It tax court the old saw goes that you must prove your innocence; the government does not have to prove your guilt.
The IRS can freeze your assets without due process.
I imagine there are other outrages, but these are the first few that come to mind.
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