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>His successful defense was based on a challenge to the IRS to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation’s income tax.<
Color me skeptical.....
Then we'll talk about a new revenue source.
Gee! a lawyer I could actually begin to like.
Best regards,
“The jury verdict to acquit sends a strong signal people are ready for a fundamental change of our oppressive tax code.”
Have you seen the video of the woman juror who was on the Cryer case? It’s very interesting and explains why the jury voted the way they did.
He was being investigated for criminal charges and for encouraging others to behave in a criminal fashion - talking to his clients seems a reasonable way for that investigation to proceed.
All of his claims about not owing income tax were rejected - he just convinced a jury he had no intent to commit a crime by not filing since he honestly believed his theory about his trust being legal.
So basically I think this suit is one more crazy stunt by people who put their energy into pretending income tax doesn’t exist instead of trying to reform the system.
No, it doesn't.
It signals that the jury was dumb enough to believe Cryer's idiotic (he's a lawyer) "I really, really didn't know I had to file" baloney, since his was a "Cheek" defense against willfulness.
Cryer's problem is that he's now on notice that he has to file. The "Cheek" defense only works once (sometimes.) His current goofy lawsuit will fail in its entirety, IRS agents are permitted to disclose information that is necessary to further their investigations.
Cryer is probably on his way to being disbarred, but is no doubt a hero to the TP-types here. With any luck, he will soon join Schiff, Meredith, Simkanin and the rest of the TP losers in federal prison.
And, no, I don't work for the IRS. I think the tax system needs radical change, but in the meantime the law is the law.
Cry me a river.
I regularly pay taxes I don’t owe because I am terrified of getting the IRS down on me.When I get a letter from the IRS saying I owe a certain amount I pay up. Challenging them only exposes you to the possibility that they will “come after you”. They have all the resources of the federal government and you have only a lawyer who expects you to pay up at regular intervals. Over paying my taxes is just part of the cost of doing business. No other government agency has the power to force you to prove your innocence. The IRS is the epitome of tyranny.
They can stick their stinking “fare tax”.
We worked our whole lifes and paid high income tax rates, maximum Socialist Security, and Mediscare taxes on the money earned yet managed to save for retirement. Now some want to tax it again when I spend the savings in retirement.
This just might be the first lawyer I actually like.
The constitution already provides for tariffs. Why tax American production at the same rate as imports from communist/socialist economies?
The fair tax won’t eliminate the IRS. The IRS or an agency just like it will have to keep track of all earnings and transactions to try to catch people buying and selling on the massive new black market that the 30 percent sales tax will generate.
awesome...I hope now is the time. I think Huckabee’s appeal is largely the fairtax deal. I just wish he was more conservative. Does he have the strength to really fight for the fairtax when he raised taxes as governor quite a bit?
Thanks for posting. It’s threads like this that really make it easy to identify our resident statists.
* Tax-protesting CEO's fugitive life is over
* Ex-CEO regrets 'mission' to take on IRS
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(Who was it that said earlier that, "Like it or not, the tactics worked and should encourage us to study them as a means of further limiting a Federal entity that has way too much abusive power"? Well, study that, LOL!)
Beale later began reading books about the tax code. One was by Irwin Schiff, one of the nation's leading anti-tax crusaders. Beale attended one of Schiff's seminars.In February 2006, Schiff, 78, was sentenced to more than 13 years in federal prison for advising people that no U.S. law requires them to pay income tax.
Bottom line: Maybe the income tax is a BAD tax. Hell, I don't know anyone who likes it. Maybe it's even a "wrong" law. But, the fact is, it's THE law.
Break it -- and, unless you find a jury with an axe to grind, you WILL go to prison -- lose your life savings, your home, your car, maybe even your family -- but, at least you'll be in the company of the "experts" who go around teaching people how to "de-tax" themselves, eh?
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