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Boo Hoo: 17,000 Down, 80,000 to Go

05 Sunday Mar 2017

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government, IRS, taxes, theft

The AP reports a wailing and gnashing at the IRS:

The number of people audited by the IRS in 2016 year dropped for the sixth straight year, to just over 1 million. The last time so few people were audited was 2004. Since then, the U.S. has added about 30 million people.

The IRS blames budget cuts as money for the agency shrunk from $12.2 billion in 2010 to $11.2 billion last year. Over that period, the agency has lost more than 17,000 employees, including nearly 7,000 enforcement agents. A little more than 80,000 people work at the IRS.

We should shoot for the same number of IRS employees we had in 1912. Same budget. And the same tax rates too.

To Pay or Not to Pay: American’s Taxing Issues

17 Friday Feb 2017

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freedom, government, IRS, ObamaCare, taxes, The People

Last month President Trump ordered that heaven and earth be moved to spare Americans the financial horror and burden of the failing Obamacare boondoggle. It seems the IRS at least may have taken note. Rumor, and I need to look into this, has it that they will no longer require oppressed taxpayers to answer the little (penalty ridden) question about yearly coverage.

Following President Donald Trump’s executive order instructing agencies to provide relief from the health law, the Internal Revenue Service appears to be taking a more lax approach to the coverage requirement.

The health law’s individual mandate requires everyone to either maintain qualifying health coverage or pay a tax penalty, known as a “shared responsibility payment.” The IRS was set to require filers to indicate whether they had maintained coverage in 2016 or paid the penalty by filling out line 61 on their form 1040s. Alternatively, they could claim exemption from the mandate by filing a form 8965.

For most filers, filling out line 61 would be mandatory. The IRS would not accept 1040s unless the coverage box was checked, or the shared responsibility payment noted, or the exemption form included. Otherwise they would be labeled “silent returns” and rejected.

Instead, however, filling out that line will be optional.

Consider this, if true, amnesty for people who actually deserve it. And hopefully by next year it will be a moot point. Trump is ready and Congress claims that they will act next month to repeal the lingering disaster of President What’s-His-Muslim. Of course, the GOP has said this for the past 6 years. Still, hope abounds.

Other Americans, those who normally love sending aid to Washington, are taking hope in civil disobedience. They are refusing to pay any federal income taxes. Because Trump.

Andrew Newman always pays his taxes, even if he hates what the government is doing with them. But not this year. For him, Donald Trump is the dealbreaker. He’ll pay his city and state taxes but will refuse to pay federal income tax as a cry of civil disobedience against the president and his new administration.

Newman is not alone. A nascent movement has been detected to revive the popularity of tax resistance – last seen en masse in America during the Vietnam war but which has been, sporadically, a tradition in the US and beyond going back many centuries.

“My tax money will be going towards putting up a wall on the Mexican border instead of helping sick people. It will contribute to the destruction of the environment and maybe more nuclear weapons. I think there will be a redistribution of wealth from the middle class to the wealthy elite and Trump’s campaign for the working man and woman was an absolute fraud. If you pay taxes you are implicated in the system,” said Newman, an associate professor of English and history at Stony Brook University on Long Island, part of the State University of New York.

“The government wants our money and if a lot of people were thinking about this kind of peaceful protest, it would get their attention,” he added.

I love the attention. I love civil disobedience and I hate taxes and all the evil they fund. I wish these folks well. And, Andrew is right: if everyone stopped paying – for any reason -maybe things would change. He hates the wall idea. I hate everything D.C. does and is.

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Probably not yours, Dearie. Scott Olson / Getty.

However, things like this usually don’t end very well. They usually end in prison. If Andrew doesn’t like his 1040 IRS number, he’ll hate his B.O.P. number.

Still there’s that hope thing.

The Other Travel Ban

03 Friday Feb 2017

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The IRS may be coming for your passport.

President Trump’s executive order on travel may be generating big protests, but an IRS missive on travel and passports may not go down too well either. More than a year ago, in H.R.22, Congress gave the IRS a new weapon to collect taxes. Tax code Section 7345 is labeled, “Revocation or Denial of Passport in Case of Certain Tax Delinquencies.” The law isn’t limited to criminal tax cases, or even cases where the IRS thinks you are trying to flee. The idea of the law is to use travel as a way to enforce tax collections. It was proposed and rejected in 2012. But by late 2015, Congress passed it and President Obama signed it.

Now, over a year later, the IRS has finally released new details on its website. If you have seriously delinquent tax debt, IRS can notify the State Department. The State Department generally will not issue or renew a passport after receiving certification from the IRS. The IRS has not yet started certifying tax debt to the State Department. The IRS says certifications will begin in early 2017, and the IRS website will be updated to indicate when this process has been implemented.

This has the potential to affect about 8,000,000 taxpayers at present. And anyone is subject to IRS persecution, even if they owe no taxes nor earn income. This has the potential to prevent many Americans from freely, legally leaving the country. It is a travel ban.

The law will require IRS regulations to implement, perhaps some from State as well. One wonders which existing regs they plan to cut in order to make way for the new ones.

One may also wonders when the crazed hippies and communists will take to the streets in violent protest of this real injustice. My guess would be “never”.

 

Executive Order Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal

24 Tuesday Jan 2017

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Donald Trump, executive order, IRS, law, ObamaCare, taxes, theft

Whitehouse.gov is fully operational now, including Executive Order No.1.

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The White House.

EXECUTIVE ORDER

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MINIMIZING THE ECONOMIC BURDEN OF THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PENDING REPEAL

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. It is the policy of my Administration to seek the prompt repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148), as amended (the “Act”). In the meantime, pending such repeal, it is imperative for the executive branch to ensure that the law is being efficiently implemented, take all actions consistent with law to minimize the unwarranted economic and regulatory burdens of the Act, and prepare to afford the States more flexibility and control to create a more free and open healthcare market.

Sec. 2. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (Secretary) and the heads of all other executive departments and agencies (agencies) with authorities and responsibilities under the Act shall exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose a fiscal burden on any State or a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products, or medications.

Sec. 3. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Secretary and the heads of all other executive departments and agencies with authorities and responsibilities under the Act, shall exercise all authority and discretion available to them to provide greater flexibility to States and cooperate with them in implementing healthcare programs.

Sec. 4. To the maximum extent permitted by law, the head of each department or agency with responsibilities relating to healthcare or health insurance shall encourage the development of a free and open market in interstate commerce for the offering of healthcare services and health insurance, with the goal of achieving and preserving maximum options for patients and consumers.

Sec. 5. To the extent that carrying out the directives in this order would require revision of regulations issued through notice-and-comment rulemaking, the heads of agencies shall comply with the Administrative Procedure Act and other applicable statutes in considering or promulgating such regulatory revisions.

Sec. 6. (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

DONALD J. TRUMP

THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 20, 2017.

Two things of particular note in this Order. First, the repeal part – even makes it into the title! Love it. Second, and more immediately important for millions of $uffering taxpayers is Section 2:

“…the heads of all other executive departments and agencies (agencies) with authorities and responsibilities under the Act [TO INCLUDE THE IRS] shall exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose …  a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals…”

Shall means shall. One hopes the agency heads see the urgency here. Perhaps this will apply to 2016 income taxes and the insanely complex and utterly evil incomprehensible nonsense known as the “shared responsibility payment” (a.k.a. Damned Theft). This is the gun to the head provision of Obamacare, the one John Roberts found to just be another cozy little tax.

You might want to hold off on filing the 1040 until April to see how this plays out. Of course, as fast as Trump is moving, the whole law may be gone by then. I hope its ghost haunts Barry on the links.

Back to Reality: An Alarm Bell

21 Saturday Jan 2017

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America, banksters, Constitution, Donald Trump, government, IRS, politics, taxes, theft

I’m the last one for practical politics. That said, even I enjoyed yesterday’s festivities. An old feeling of nostalgia crept over me. Refreshing like a pleasant anesthetic. But I fear it is wearing off.

I saw this story a day before Trump swore the oath of office as the 45th President.

 

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of the treasury, Steve Mnuchin, said at his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday he would like to increase the size of the IRS.

Mnuchin said that while some have questioned, including himself, the number of employees at the IRS, he would consider increasing the size of the labor force.

“The IRS headcount has gone down quite dramatically, almost 30 percent over the last number of years. I don’t think there is any another government agency that has gone down 30 percent. Especially for an agency that collects revenues, this is something that I’m concerned about,” Mnuchin said.

“Perhaps the IRS just started with way too many people. I am concerned about the staffing of the IRS,” Mnuchin told the Senate panel.

I think it’s in the Constitution somewhere that any executive at the IRS, The Treasury, and the Fed has to have worked previously at Goldman Sachs, as Mnuchin has. Maybe in Article 69… Or 666…

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Business Insider.

I’ve previously expressed a theory about Trump and the banksters, that he’s trying to keep his enemies closer, so to speak. If not, then it appears that Hillary’s faction won anyway, sans the old bag.

Despite the personnel reductions the IRS has collected record “revenues” in the past few years. And that’s not even it’s intended purpose. Maybe that’s efficiency in government? A good way to do a terrible thing?

A larger IRS would compliment the true mission of the agency – a hammer against the people. That would fly directly in the face of Trump’s incredible inaugural speech yesterday.

Maybe I’m prematurely over-reacting here. But I do not love or trust the IRS nor anyone from the Satanic House of Sachs. Developing…

Weaponized Taxation

04 Sunday Sep 2016

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America, bill of attainder, Constitution, crime, ex post facto, freedom, government, IRS, law, power, taxes

“The power to tax involves the power to destroy.” John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819).

Last week Apple felt that power from abroad. The EU decreed Apple owes $15 Billion in back taxes. The imposition is seen as retaliation for Apple’s sales success in Europe. Economic success warrants retaliation in the twisted mind of government.

Here in America, Congress is desperately seeking similar retaliation. It has been suggested that American tax power may be weaponized to strike hard at European companies. While they’re at it, they may want to strike at you as well.

The past decade has seen a massive increase (1,000% or so) in Americans attempting to flee the ruins of the old Republic in efforts to preserve what they have created (and to preserve their own freedom). Fleeing the Land of the Free for freedom. Odd.

Mark Nestmann explains:

But just to make sure expatriates know “who’s the boss,” in 2012, Senators Schumer and Bob Casey (D-PA) introduced legislation to retroactively punish them. The “Expatriation Prevention by Abolishing Tax-Related Incentives for Offshore Tenancy Act,” or Ex-PATRIOT Act, would punish wealthy expatriates by forbidding them from ever reentering the US. The proposal would apply to anyone with a net worth of $2 million or more at the time of expatriation. It would also be retroactive for the 10-year period prior to enactment of the statute.

The Ex-PATRIOT Act didn’t pass in 2012, or in 2013 when Schumer reintroduced it as an amendment to another act. But I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it reappears in 2017. It’s hard to see how someone like Donald Trump, who bashes everything non-US, could oppose this bill. And Hillary Clinton has long slammed corporations that move their base of operations from the US to save on corporate taxes. It’s not a huge jump to conclude that if elected, she’d sign the Schumer-Casey proposal into law.

A retroactive law is known legally as ex post facto (after the fact). Such laws were viewed for centuries, rightly, as unfair. They are forbidden not once but twice in the Constitution: Art 1, § 9 and § 10. Such a deliberate targeting of the successful is known as a Bill of Attainder – also prohibited by the Constitution, again in Article I, Section 9.

 

The U.S. abandoned the ancient abstention of retroactive prosecution in 1945 and has not looked back. The Constitution is abandoned. “Constitutionalists” may say what they like but saying doesn’t stop the doing. And it’s all done anyway.

Anyone who deals with the IRS knows Washington wages an everyday war for power. It is more about showing the commoners “who’s the boss” than the money.

Remember Jim Bakker the 1980’s televangelist? His affairs left him with a $500,000 tax bill. Thirty years later the debt has grown (with interest and penalties) to around $6,000,000. Bakker will never pay that off. The government doesn’t expect him to. They are most happy lording over him for life; the money is a side issue. His freedom, otherwise redeemed by the passage of time, is destroyed by taxation. Marshall was on to something.

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Everyone makes mistakes. Many pay for them. Some have to pay and pay and pay … forever. God forgives. The IRS does not.

The future looks to hold much of the same. Schumer is still trying to ram his pet (illegal) law through Congress. The IRS terrorizes millions. Do not look for help from either presidential candidate.

Trump has already announced an intention to use selective confiscation for his benefit. He wants to seize drug cartel funds and use them to construct his wall. Remember that such programs grow over time, usually to encompass more targets than originally stated. Remember too any wall that can keep Mexicans out can also keep Americans in.

God help you if Clinton is elected. She views all of you as servants and the government as a giant tool for her personal gain. IRS persecution of anyone deemed even slightly anti-Clinton is a given. Worse, she may use tax records (And she didn’t know they were classified! Honest.) to compile a hit list. You know, for more of those “suicides”.

Tomorrow is Labor Day – the day for celebrating productivity in the workforce. Ponder for just a moment, between the burgers, beer and football, that you have a silent partner at work. Whatever you do, your partner takes 20%, 40% (honestly much more – maybe 60-70% in totality) of every dollar you earn and produce while contributing absolutely nothing. Your silent partner uses taxes as a weapon to keep you in line or, at the least, to rob you.

Jim Bakker. Tammy Faye? The makeup??

In Government We Trust: The Shadow Lengthens

31 Wednesday Aug 2016

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America, Constitution, corruption, election, evil, false flag, government, Homeland Security, immigration, IRS, law, taxes, The People, voting

Just yesterday morning I followed up on the bumbling attempts by Washington to explain electoral system security breaches. I pondered whether the FBI actually found said breaches as part of an investigation or if they had created them as part of some false flag scheme for control. Today, we may have part of an answer.

I woke up (late) to this headline at Drudge:

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Hussein Obama elaborates on his golf handicap at NASA; Jeh Johnson looks on.

Drudge likes a little shock value. It should read: DHS to take charge of election security. That’s what they’re planning to do.

Even before the FBI identified new cyber attacks on two separate state election boards, the Department of Homeland Security began considering declaring the election a “critical infrastructure,” giving it the same control over security it has over Wall Street and and the electric power grid.

The latest admissions of attacks could speed up that effort possibly including the upcoming presidential election, according to officials.

“We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid,” Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.

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Johnson also said that the big issue at hand is that there isn’t a central election system since the states run elections. “There’s no one federal election system. There are some 9,000 jurisdictions involved in the election process,” Johnson said.

Or, there were 9,000. Decentralization of power is a long-standing paper theme in America. I say “paper” because though we cut ties to centralized authority (King George III) in 1776, we reinstituted them in 1787 with the federal Constitution. Still, with something like elections, it’s probably preferable to have 9,000 separate authorities rather than just one. That makes corruption 9,000 times harder. Or, it did.

A related topic was raised in a U.S. News article today:

“There’s nothing in the Constitution which requires a popular election for the electors serving in the Electoral College,” says John Nagle, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame, meaning the body that officially elects presidents could convene without the general public voting.

“It’s up to each state legislature to decide how they want to choose the state’s electors,” Nagle says. “It may be a situation in which the fact that we have an Electoral College, rather than direct voting for presidential candidates, may prove to be helpful.”

Both major parties do have rules for presidential ticket replacements, however, and Congress has the power to change the election date under Article II of the Constitution, which allows federal lawmakers to set dates for the selection of presidential electors and when those electors will vote.

But Congress would be up against a de facto December deadline, as the Constitution’s 20th Amendment requires that congressional terms expire Jan. 3 and presidential terms on Jan. 20. Though it’s conceivable to split legislative and presidential elections, they generally happen at the same time. And if the entire general election were to be moved after Jan. 3, Congress effectively would have voted themselves out of office.

While I would be happy as a clam if Congress voted itself out of office I suspect many others would not. “There’s nothing in the Constitution which requires a popular election…” – that doesn’t jive with all that “democracy” and “you’re vote counts” business so popular today. But, it’s true.

Your vote, your participation in the election is not needed. It is only an illusion. At best it provides the real state electoral system with suggestions. If someone wanted to tamper with your suggestion box, it would be better for them (worse for you) to do so from a singular point (as opposed to 9,000 little points all over the place). Thus, my suspicion of DHS’s power grab.

Oddly, DHS isn’t necessary either nor is it found in the Constitution. With the brief and partial interruption in the scheme from 1861-1865, the federal system operated without DHS from 1787 until 2002 (2003 really). It was a gift of the wooden, horse-like, Greek variety from our dear friend Jorge the Dimmer. (Miss him yet?) It was instituted after another false flag event. (Thanks for that recent admission, Rudy!)

I’m really close to 700 posts on this site and at least about 600 of them deal with the evil nature of government. You simply cannot underestimate the state’s capacity to do harm. Yesterday I mockingly rattled off but a few of the known recent depredations from D.C. Here’s a new one:

Those hard-working, just like us, only trying to better their lives while hiding “in the shadows” illegal aliens have stolen 1,000,000 of our social security numbers. What’s more, the IRS has known about this for about FIVE YEARS and has done nothing! They haven’t even notified the victims. A can of worms this is.

Social Security isn’t in the Constitution either, apart from just being another tax. The IRS is happy to collect taxes from any source it can. If illegals pay in, great. They care nothing about you and your identity theft claims.

As for the illegals, some say there is no such thing as an “illegal person”. This is where I part ways with the open borders libertarians. Is there now no such thing as an illegal identity thief?

We are not the world, nor are we children.

Even if the IRS cared (they don’t), they would have a very hard time sorting all this out. Likely they have no idea how to solve this problem. Their position is partly defensible mathematically: in just a few short score of years both the illegals and the identity victims, every last one, will be dead – thus, no problem in the long run to worry about.

Back to DHS, they have a short but growing history of doing a whole lot of nothing. Nothing except for taking control – of anything they can. That helps boost their budget numbers. A few of you may recall how DHS took control of the West Virginia situation in the novel Republic and the ensuing hilarity.

By the way, and on a concluding note, pursuant to the deficiencies discovered in Republic those you in WV might want to go ahead and stock up on AAA and SAMs.

Happy No Trust Day!

15 Friday Apr 2016

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April 15th, Tax Day. Well, I hear they moved the date to the 18th this year but the 15th, today, is the traditional deadline to file returns with the IRS. Yesterday in eerily timed oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle said, “It’s hard to find the IRS to be an agency we can trust.” The Case is True the Vote v. IRS, ___ F.3d ___, No. 14-5316 (D.C. Cir., April 14, 2016).

True and several other Tea Party groups sued the IRS for violating their civil rights. Throughout the proceedings the IRS has maintained the same disdain and arrogance they show to any ordinary taxpayer (maybe you have had the lovely experience). Except, this time, they unnerved two federal judges presiding over the arguments. At least the IRS is consistent.

The “masters of the universe” attitude, arrogance, and obstruction the IRS is famous for earned them the title of “untrustworthy”. The only word to describe them better is “evil”. Remember that next time your fill out their forms or meet with your CPA.

Now, go pay your taxes!

Google.

Fiddling While D.C. Burns

28 Wednesday Oct 2015

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Before he goes John “Boo-Hoo” Boehner has one last trick up his sleeve. It’s just in time for Halloween too. Speaker Dearest has been working hard with his best friend, President Obama (TWO parties, remember), to raise the debt ceiling.

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If only. Google.

The potential treat for this season is that the government is all but broke. Without more debt it will have to shut down at least temporarily. That would be a blessing for the masses but it will not happen. The monied interests need the government operational so they can continue to loot the carcus of our economy.

Congress has money, yes. This year has seen record tax collections from both individuals and corporations – over $3 Trillion. Such a number would seem enough to finance anything. Anything except our corrupt beyond hope political and financial elites, that is. Printing more paper money is their only hope. As they have slammed into the statutory cap on borrowing once again, they must vote to raise the cap. They will.

As usual a few dissenters give the pretense of debate over the matter. It’s an act well scripted. They say they will hold up next year’s budget over the debt. They won’t. This year they have side lies to entertain the people. Funding of Planned Parenthood is another holdup. Rest assured the rats of the Potomac care no more about children than they do fiscal responsibility. All just an act in the weary play of American Decline.

Little of this makes the news. Paul Craig Roberts just, again, explained why – the U.S. media is but a puppet of the state and its owners. They report the truth in nothing. Not our wars. Not our money. The World Series, yes. Anything of substance, no.

Your favorite candidate, whomever that might be, is silent too. They’re too busy talking about themselves and each other at present. Should the debt or budget come up they will only have platitudes. Their stated plans are a continuation of the status quo. Bernie Sanders Claus is the exception. He wants to give everything away for free. That means even more debt and spending. It makes no sense. Then again, the voters are not known for reasoning ability. A guy promising goodies from the sky just might be their man. No difference.

Whoever of this latest pathetic crop gets the job will do exactly as he’s told. The Banksters and the Treasury beaurocrats must have more money to keep the smoke and mirrors economy running just a little while longer.

Faced both with imminent collapse and the prospect of angry, hungry, zombie-like idiot voters at their doors they are out of magic tricks. Spending cannot slow for even a day. The Federal Reserve cannot raise interest rates. The slightest breeze could now topple their house of cards. And, don’t laugh. You and I live in that house.

Only more debt, ridiculous spending and more of the same will prop up the system – for a while. Eventually the bell shall toll.

Were an omnipotent and benevolent being with governing super powers to directly intervene, the solution would be so simple:

Rather than making a show, boasting to impeach its chief criminal, the IRS could just be abolished. Relieved of taxation the people could keep their money. By abolishing the Fed and its monopoly on funny money, the cash the people keep would have actual value.

Starved of funding the government would really close down – for good. This would free the newly enriched free people from war, regulation, taxation, jail threats, airport strip searches, bad medicine, toilet tank size restrictions, marriage mandates, travel and trade restrictions, gun laws, labor laws, electoral cycle bullshit and a host of other horrors.

Those other people, the ravaging zombies, could be placated by feeding them the newly unemployed and utterly worthless mass of politicians, beaurocrats and central bankers. A collective burp later and all memory of the past corruption would erased.

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Dawn shall come. Google.

Ah, for a quick and happy ending. No super being will show up. Things will go on. The end and the solution will not come quickly. But, come it will. Some day all the things I just hypothesised will come to pass in one way or another. Rome will burn and fall. Freedom and intelligence will return. Then, it will be happy.

Trump on Taxes

01 Thursday Oct 2015

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Donald Trump just started talking like an old school Republican.  He’s added a third plank to his Presidential platform – along with immigration reform and the Second Amendment – tax cuts.  The Wall Street Journal says Trump’s plan would cut taxes for millions of Americans.  I put the emphasis in the last sentence on “would” because The Donald’s plan, as great as it may sound, won’t happen even if he’s elected.

There are too many who will not stand for substantive changes to our draconian tax code, members of the huge tax benefit lobby at the bottom of which is the Federal Reserve, gaping and grasping like that sandpit monster from Return of the Jedi.  One must also consider the malicious might of those 535 clowns under the big top … er ….dome in D.C.

This plan, which looks far better than the insane mess we have now, is fated to fail like the Fairtax and various flat tax proposals before it.

Here’s a link to the Trump plan.

Trump has four “simple” tax goals:

Tax relief for middle class Americans: In order to achieve the American dream, let people keep more money in their pockets and increase after-tax wages.

Simplify the tax code to reduce the headaches Americans face in preparing their taxes and let everyone keep more of their money.

Grow the American economy by discouraging corporate inversions, adding a huge number of new jobs, and making America globally competitive again.

Doesn’t add to our debt and deficit, which are already too large.

Trump Plan.

All tax brackets would drop with the maximum being capped at 25%.  Those earning less than $25,000 per year would pay no tax.  Trump would eliminate the marriage penalty, the Alternative Minimum Tax and the Federal Death Tax. These are great points.  However, consider that the original maximum tax bracket was supposed to be 10% and that was supposedly reserved for the super rich. Government is like a hungry wolf; just because it doesn’t eat you today doesn’t mean it won’t try tomorrow.

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Always at the door.  Google Images.

I assume the other candidates have or will soon publish similar plans. Republicans will promise cuts, Libertarians deeper cuts, and Democrats increases here and there to make things fair.  What we will have in the end is the status quo.  It’s no coincidence the Sixteenth Amendment and the modern tax system came along on 1913 along with the Federal Reserve.  One is dependent on the other, both are weapons of the government against the free people.

The scheme we currently suffer is bad.  Trump’s plan is better.  It would also be better to return to the tax system originally built into the Republic – tariffs, etc. or into the Confederation – Congress begging the States for dough as needed. Best of all would be a 0% tax for everyone with no government to support.  For satirical consideration only is the solution I noted several years ago from a Doctor Who episode – tossing the tax collector off a high roof.  That would tend to work under any tax system.

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