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Tax Evaders Arrested
U.S. Marshals Apprehend Browns Without Incident
Convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown were taken into custody Thursday.
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The U.S. Marshals Service said the Browns were arrested without incident on their Plainfield property at about 7:45 p.m.
The Browns have been in a standoff with authorities since their sentencing in April on tax evasion charges.
They insisted that there’s no law forcing them to pay taxes and refused to surrender — saying they would not come out alive.
Since the recent arrests of four Brown supporters, there has been less traffic at the Plainfield compound.
The U.S. Marshals Service said it considered that when it decided to conduct an arrest operation that a team of experts has been planning for months.
Details of how the Browns were taken into custody have not been released.
The Browns could now face more federal charges following the standoff.
A press conference is scheduled for Friday in Concord.
WMUR will be there and will report on any developments.
http://www.wmur.com/news/14274183/detail.html?rss=man&psp=news
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Do you think they’ll be able to avoid a trial and jail ?
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?
