"Why Congress
Will Never Repeal The IRS"
from "In Defense of Rural
America"
By Ron Ewart,
President
National Association of Rural
Landowners
and nationally recognized author and
speaker on freedom and property rights issues.
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Copyright Sunday, January 12, 2014 - All Rights
Reserved
As published on
Newswithviews, January 8, 2013
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"In
June, 1988 Kay Council of High Point, NC came home one night to find a note from
her husband, Alex: 'My dearest Kay - I have taken my life in order to provide
capital for you. The IRS and its liens, which have been taken against our
property illegally by a runaway agency of our government, have dried up all
sources of credit for us. So I have made the only decision I can. It's purely a
business decision... You will find my body on the lot on the north side of the
house.' At the end of a nine-year battle over a disallowed tax shelter, the IRS
claimed that the Councils owed $300,000 in taxes, interest, and penalties. When
their financial resources were exhausted, Mr. Council committed suicide to
provide Mrs. Council with $250,000 insurance money to continue the battle.
Ironically, Mrs. Council eventually won a court ruling that she and her husband
owed the IRS nothing - the IRS deficiency notice had been sent four months after
the statute of limitations had expired. Mrs. Council, 48, said, 'I was cheated
of growing old with the man I love.'" Excerpt from an article by Randy Fitzgerald, staff writer at
Readers Digest, republished in the March 1991 Issue of Reason
Magazine. Full story was republished by Devvy Kidd in 2003 at this
link: http://www.devvy.com/200311031846.html.
The above story is just one of tens
of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who have fallen afoul of the
arrogant, abusive and corrupt Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
Each American that is forced to confront the IRS, must do so all
alone with very little if any assistance from anyone else.
Most Americans live in abject fear of the IRS and don't have the resources
or knowledge of the law to fight this out-of-control mega-monster that shows no
mercy and knows no law other than the law it invents to suit its
purposes. But how did we get here? We will cover one of the major
reasons a little later in this article.
The history of the income tax dates
back to the time of Kings. In the United States the first income tax
occurred in 1862 during the Civil War when President Lincoln declared the need
to raise taxes to fund the war with the South. The tax was later repealed
in 1872. The 16th Amendment, allegedly ratified by the Congress and
42 of the 48 States in 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson, became the foot in
the door for the federal government to insert its power and control over our
individual lives:
"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."
There are many questions and
arguments that have been raised about the constitutionality of the 16th
Amendment and whether it was properly ratified by the Congress and three-fourths
of the states. Some of those questions have been answered in cases brought
before the High Court but still many more questions persist. Some
decisions by the High Court only served to muddy the waters.
Prior to the passage of the 16th
Amendment, the federal government managed to exist on revenues from
"Duties, Imposts and Excises to pay the Debts and provide for the
common Defence and general Welfare of the United States but all Duties, Imposts
and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States."
(Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U. S.
Constitution.)
But alas, the taxes collected in
accordance with the Constitution were not enough and the bankers that
loaned vast sums of money to the United States government, were uneasy about
their investments. Congress, pressured by the bankers, capitulated to
their lobby and the 16th Amendment was born that created the Federal Reserve and
the Internal Revenue Service under a progressive tax rate system, where the
higher earners pay a significantly higher tax rate in direct violation of the
equal protection clause of the U. S. Constitution.
We are told that the Federal Reserve
was created to smooth out the peaks and valleys of our economic system, as prior
to the 16th Amendment bank runs and failures were common. Perhaps there
may be an element of truth to this argument. However, the bankers needed a
steady, determinable source of re-payment to secure their loans and what better
way to do it than to tax the income of all Americans and to create an
agency that puts the fear of God into those Americans to insure compliance of a
so-called voluntary law. This could be called, "security for a
loan at the point of a gun where the government holds the gun and your head is
where it is pointed."
But humans are a messy lot.
They can act either rationally, or irrationally. Most humans act
within average modes of social acceptability at certain times. As
times change the average mode changes and the people, en masse, change with
it. Given human unpredictability, the elites and educated idiots in our
society keep coming up with methods and practices to keep society within certain
envelopes of behavior. All of the elite's methods and practices are
substantiated by scientific research and studies, of course and cannot be
argued against by the masses because the elites obviously know better.
Does any of this sound familiar?
In the late 1800's a new term
surfaced that started the process of measuring social behavior and creating
methods to control it on a grand scale. Social scientists and economists jumped on this new term with a
vengeance. The new term was called "social engineering" and it opened up a
very large door to modifying and nudging social behavior of the masses through
actual laws and subliminal messages. (To read more about
the history of social engineering, click HERE.)
From this "research" came other terms
like, income inequality, social equity and social justice. Social
justice is the current byword of the progressive movement and Progressivism
actually got its start during the heyday of the Industrial Revolution at the
turn of the 20th Century. Democrats will live and die on the term "social
justice". Social justice got us many large government entitlement programs
from Social Security, to Medicare, to Medicaid, to farm aid, food stamps,
welfare and now, Obama Care. These programs bought millions of
votes from those who conveniently forgot the definition of liberty.
Except, Democrats have used the term to rob, by force of
law, "those with the greatest capability and give the
ill-gotten gains to those with the greatest need." (Karl
Marx) However, without a means to pay for their Social Justice, Democrats
have set the stage for national bankruptcy with an ever-increasing,
run-away national debt.
President Hoover, in the late 1920's,
retained the University of Illinois and Harvard University to conduct a study on
how to control people through their subconscious minds. Not surprisingly,
the study was paid for by the Rockefeller Foundation, one of America's leading
bankers and industrialists. Rockefeller had a vested interest in
controlling people to assure his investments in the U. S. Government were
secure. From those university studies laws were passed to implement
the findings.
In a free country, where individual
rights are the hallmark of its foundation, controlling people through their
subconscious minds is hardly the purview of a government charged with the solemn
duty of preserving, defending and protecting those individual rights and
liberties. Once again, this gives rise to the phrase, "power
corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."
But let's get back to the IRS.
What better way would there be to control the behavior of the people on a grand
scale than through "playing" with how the IRS collects taxes? Tax
incentives, tax disincentives and wealth re-distribution all fall under the
umbrella of the IRS, passed by the U. S. Congress and signed
into law by the President.
Each year the Congress passes law
after law that are then given to the IRS to enforce, through tax policy and
the infamous and ever-more complex IRS tax code, Title 26 USC, etc. As a
result, the IRS has grown exponentially to implement the "social engineering"
laws that Congress passes and the President signs. Obama Care is a prime
example of a massive law being dumped on the IRS to enforce. It has
been reported that over 16,000 new IRS employees will be required to weave
Obama Care into tax law and administer its provisions. (That's about $1,600,000,000 of your tax money to pay for those 16,000
new employees. Today, the current budget for the IRS is well over $12
Billion.)
Americans naturally blame the
IRS because they are the messenger and enforcer of the tax policy.
But what Americans should be doing is blaming and directing their
ire, anger and ferocity on the President, the U. S. Congress and the state
legislatures.
Many attempts over the years have
been made to reform the IRS. Many of those attempts fell on deaf
ears in Congress, the reasons for which should be abundantly clear.
However, in 1998 Congress passed the "Internal Revenue Service
Restructuring and Reform Act" (the Act). One of the high
points of the Act was to put the burden of proof on the IRS for an alleged
infraction of the IRS tax code. For those interested in studying the
details of the Act may do so HERE.
(http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1406&context=mulr)
But there is one other major reason
the Congress will never repeal the IRS. The powerful accountant-CPA-tax
attorney lobby, built up around the IRS for 100 years, will stop the Congress in
their tracks if they make any attempts to abolish or significantly rein in the
IRS.
So you see ladies and gentlemen, the
Congress, or the President, love the IRS. They have no intentions of
repealing or abolishing it because they use the IRS for social and economic
engineering, against you to control your
behavior. You just think you live in a free country.
You are being directed and manipulated into controlled behavior by overt, covert
and subliminal acts by your government and even more directly through the IRS
tax code. You just don't know it because you have capitulated to whatever
government asks of you without question. This act of
omission has brought us to the deplorable and untenable condition we find
ourselves in today.
There is a way to take control,
repeal, or dismantle the IRS rather than lobbying Congress, or at the ballot
box. We will discuss this method in the third installment of this
series of articles on the IRS.
Next week we will take up the issue
of why so many income-producing Americans are not paying taxes, through the
operation of law. The article is entitled, "Why Are Thousands of Producers Not Paying
Taxes?"
If you are having difficulties with
the IRS, we encourage you to visit our IRS tax website at http://www.attackwatchspies.com, where
you will find a wealth of information, some of which will be useful and some of
which you probably didn't want to know.
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