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The Daily Gazette | June 18, 2002 | Carl Strock

[1Old Pro]

The View From Here

Schulz stops paying taxes, defies IRS

By CARL STROCK

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I expected it would come to this, and now it has. My friend Bob Schulz of sue-the-government fame and reputation has declared that he will no longer pay his federal income tax.

In a letter to the IRS dated yesterday, he called the tax "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated by government against the working men and women of America" and said he's all done cooperating.

What's more, he told me by telephone from his home near Lake George, he is preparing to lead a national campaign urging others to stop filing returns. He will hit the road late this week or early next and drive cross-country spreading the message with the help of some 600 like-minded "coordinators" who have already enlisted in the cause.

The message is the basic Jeffersonian one of the rights of the People as opposed to over-reaching government, which has been the underlying theme of his activities since he was suing New York state over its devious borrowing practices. It was given new focus earlier this year at a hearing he held in Washington on the legality, or illegality, of the income tax.

The conclusion of that hearing, you will not be surprised to learn, is that the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, establishing the tax, was not properly ratified back in 1913, and the Internal Revenue Service, therefore, has no good foundation in law. The government has been conning us all these years.

It's a cause that Schulz got onto about three years ago, and he has pursued it since then with the same relentlessness that he demonstrated when he was badgering New York.

Since I talked to him earlier he has added to it the notion that the Federal Reserve System is part of the same sinister complex as the IRS.

"The income tax was instituted to provide lender security and guaranteed profits to this highly secretive, privately owned and unaccountable central banking system that has obtained absolute control over our country and the federal government," he wrote in his letter, sounding, I must say, as if he's gone over entirely to the kook wing of American politics.

"Most Americans are in a condition of continual economic peonage and slavery to the federal government and the privately owned Federal Reserve System," he postulated.

He said the Federal Reserve thing sounded like a "fringe issue" to him too when he first heard about it, but his own research has convinced him it's legitimate.

In responding to the perceived conspiracy to deprive us all of our liberty, he does not spare the rhetoric. "We must resort to force," he wrote to the IRS, making clear however that by force he means "a non-violent mass movement."

"An appeal to force and to the Creator is all that is left to us."

Of course this will lead to trouble.

"The civil strife is inevitable," he wrote. "Let it come! Let it come!"

Does he expect to wind up in prison as a result of his new position?

"I don't know what to expect," he says, though he obviously does not shrink from the prospect of a legal fight.

I certainly wish him the best with this battle, though in the meantime I will look to my interests by continuing to pay my own taxes.

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[AppyPappy]

He better get used to jail.

[mattdono]

That's exactly what I was thinking...

[Pern]

...sounding, I must say, as if he's gone over entirely to the kook wing of American politics.

Why is it when a person realizes the injustice of the tax code and wants to do something about it they are usually labled as 'kooks' or a 'nuts'?

I wish this guy all the best, at least he has the stones to stick by his principles.

[fporretto]

Bob Schulz is a good fellow and a dragon-slayer without peer, but this time I think he's taken on a bigger dragon than he can handle. Governments guard no privilege more jealously than that of milking us dry to pay for their boondoggles and vote-buying campaigns. Anyone who steps forward to lead a tax revolt must know that a crosshairs will settle on his forehead at once.

It's a fine, brave gesture, but it's likely to get him very substandard accommodations at a federal resort. Without room service. Well, room service of the good kind, anyway. Ask Irwin Schiff.

Freedom, Wealth, and Peace,
Francis W. Porretto
Visit The Palace Of Reason: http://palaceofreason.com

[KentuckyWoman]

I wish him luck. Thing is, most folks work for some company who takes out all these taxes before they get what's left so refusing to file isn't an option (unless they don't want to get any 'extra' back, that is). I keep wondering what would happen if a state passed some sort of ordance saying that companies didn't have to 'withhold' from their employees' checks and whether such a move could possibly fall under 10th amendment protection somehow...

[FreeTally]

Why is it when a person realizes the injustice of the tax code and wants to do something about it they are usually labled as 'kooks' or a 'nuts'?

Because the people that call them "kooks" and "nuts" can't stand the fact that they themselves do not have the guts to do what someone like Shulz does.

[Phantom Lord]

They could do so in regardes to state taxes, not federal.

And NEVER forget, and most people don't know, prior to WWII there was no withholding. It was instituted because the government needed a constant stream of revenue to pay for the war. Withholding was suppose to end when the war ended. As we know, it didnt.

And neither did the tax on your phone instituted to help pay for the Spanish-American war. Were still paying it over 100 years later. I havent heard any reports from the front lately, I sure hope our boys are kicking some Spanish ass and come home soon.

[AppyPappy]

actually he is **instigating** the public

You misspelled "hoodwinking". Hope this helps.

[BillofRights]

Here's a link to a website where you can order a videotape for $20, or read much of the material for free. It will explain in great detail how

A CITIZEN OF ONE OF THE 50 STATES WITH A DOMESTIC INCOME IS NOT REQUIRED TO PAY FEDERAL INCOME TAXES !!!!

Theft by Deception

I defy anyone to watch the tape and disprove anything in it. I have watched it 6 times and researched, independently, the material presented; and I have ordered copies for many friends, some of which are lawyers and accountants. No one has been able to dispute its findings. It is well documented.

Yet we know that the federal government, as a current police state, has the POWER to force us to do almost anything, even if it does not have the Constitutional authority to do so.

[Barbara14]

The conclusion of that hearing, you will not be surprised to learn, is that the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, establishing the tax, was not properly ratified back in 1913, and the Internal Revenue Service, therefore, has no good foundation in law. The government has been conning us all these years.

If this is so, then the public needs to know and Congress needs to understand that we are sick of being held down by excessive taxation, and that the law which upholds the power of the IRS to remove our money from us is now suspect.

[1Old Pro]

Here's his website:

http://www.givemeliberty.org/

 

[Mr. Bird]

I believe the author was specifically referring to the Federal Reserve rant when pondering his kookiness. I have to agree. It's one thing to disapprove of how things are done. It's another to suppose that it's a result of a conspiracy. Unless you are talking about the NY Yankees, of course.

[LandofLincoln]

BINGO! You hit the nail on the head. None of us pay taxes. We pay our mortgage, and credit card bills, but our taxes are confiscated by our employers before we ever see our checks. Thomas Jefferson said it best, "this country will need a revolution every twenty years, just to keep our government right. But, somewhere in the last half of the last century Americans became a bunch of squirrels. I will tell you who the tax code does not apply toward ... every single person who comes to this country get a free ride on the income tax issue for SEVEN full years.

[Lazamataz]

He better get used to jail.

Jail means he is going to get free lodging and free food. This is socialism.

Bob Shulz is advocating socialism.

heheheheh

[1Old Pro]

Shouldn't we gladly pay excesive taxes so that our government can spend more and more money on ridiculous vote-getting compassionate programs?

Bush Promotes Home Ownership Plan (Proposes Grants to 40,000 families-yr for downpayments)

 

[upchuck]

Maybe Bob and Steve should have a pow-wow. Poor 'ole Steve took his cause all the way to the SCOTUS and lost.

Unfortunately, I think this is pretty simple: Even if the Federal Income Tax is illegal, was never ratified properly, is voluntary, or whatever, the cards are stacked against all who try and fight it.

Personally, I think anyone who fights it is spinning their wheels and asking for jail time. Better to spend all that energy trying to change the existing system. Check here.

[KentuckyWoman]

Yet we know that the federal government, as a current police state, has the POWER to force us to do almost anything, even if it does not have the Constitutional authority to do so.

And that's precisely why our founders didn't believe a standing army was a proper function of the federal government. We are being forced to pay for our own incarceration and there's nothing we can do about it because not enough people will stand up together and say NO for fear of being shot as a 'threat'. We have seen what happens to those who get on the wrong side of the government ala' Waco, Ruby Ridge and others. Seeing US Citizens burned alive is an excellent deterrent for future disenters.