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Add Images to Your Articles!! Clarkston Businesses Click Here! "City Issues" Read what your neighbors are saying about growth and development, traffic and crime. Then post your thoughts and concerns-- anything that you believe is worth talking about! "DeKalb and Beyond" Talk about county, state and national political issues here! Local Business Services Services offered by Clarkston businesses; yard sales, stuff for sale, and more! Sherry Peel Jackson – Breaking the Invisible Shackles of the IRS. Sherry Jackson; a former whistle blower IRS agent from Stone Mountain, Georgia, is now serving time in federal prison for willful failure to file. April 15th - “The other April Fools Day” By Chris Busing Supposedly there has been a $50,000 cash offer, put out by the We the People Foundation, to anyone who can prove the existence of a law that requires the average American to pay income taxes. And supposedly, no one has ever collected on this $50,000 offer. The idea is; that the IRS has been operating on a bluff, for one hundred years since the inception of the 16th Amendment in 1913, because this income tax amendment never actually granted powers to government, to levy an income tax on the people. But see, even if it were to be proven to many Americans that there is no law; that it is all bluff on the part of the IRS; these Americans will still insist, that we must pay an income tax in order for the country’s infrastructure, to function. We just have to “pay our fair share”, is how the standard line goes. People forget that there have been very effective and proven alternatives to the income tax, for funding government, that include the original constitutional tariffs on imported goods (which we could use to save any industry this country has left) tax by apportionment, and now there is discussion of a national sales tax, such as the Fair Tax. (This political movement is flawed because it does not even acknowledge tariffs as the highly effective original form of constitutional taxation, and it refuses to acknowledge or even denounce the growing political movement that says there is no law in the first place.) Regardless, of whether or not the income tax is lawful, the tax code is so disgustingly complicated; with thousands of pages of print; the quantity of several telephone books. What citizenry in their right mind would go along with a tax code containing that much fine print, which is in turn used to ensnare all kinds of law abiding citizens? The tax code also contains the loopholes for the super rich, who never pay, as we all know. There are many discussions of what type of tax we should have and I would not get into it here. The best kind of tax is a simple tax; be it sales tax or tariff; that every homeowner can calculate, that every Tom Dick and Harry knows the ins and outs of. The importance for the people of the tax being simple, is that there is no fine print for government to use to target people; to set them up for big tax stings. When the family down the street loses everything in a tax audit/levy, none of the neighbors understand what happened, because it is all so complicated. The IRS then puts the burden of proof on the victim, who is now stigmatized in the community, with people assuming for some reason that the IRS did everything right. The income tax is a tool that agents of government use, to literally rob people of their wealth. In a typical case, (and I have witnessed this many times) the tax auditor will falsify the amount of expenses in a small business, as much lower than actual and also falsify revenues as much higher than actual. This leaves a tax liability that can be astronomically higher than it should be. Some suggest a simple, flat income tax, but the problem with this is, that income must then be verified, and with more government snooping. It is good that Americans develop a healthy philosophy of what they think the ideal tax should be, because ultimately this big think tank, that is the US citizenry, can bring congress to adopt an idea. I would not advocate that you break the (supposed) law and get yourself or myself in trouble for suggesting that you do. Only that you look into the possibility that there is no law; that it could all be just a bluff. In fact I offer to the city attorney of Clarkston that he show the people of Clarkston the law that says the average Clarkstonian has to file an income tax form. And when he does, I have a $100 bill ready for him. That should not take him more than a few minutes to do; just find the USC citing, right? There is a chance that this April 15th could be the very last time that Americans will pay an income tax en masse. By the IRS’ own estimates there are already 60 million non-filing Americans, who the IRS says are required to file. This is no small number. And with every American that drops out of the system, a message is sent to Congress of the disaffection Americans have with this present system; that it must be replaced with something else, before everyone drops out of the system and there is no revenue for government to operate. Imagine how many American family bread winners are going to be burning that midnight oil on the night of April 14th, trying to figure out where to fudge on their tax form (if they are self employed and think that can keep from paying some of the tax they think they owe.) They have lost their jobs, and they are about to lose their houses. They have no money to pay and they think about the Maddoff’s of this world and high government officials who are not paying income taxes, as reported in the mainstream media. And now, what a convenient time to believe this rumor they have been hearing, that there is no law. Then all of a sudden, there goes that 1040 form, balled up and chucked into the circular file. If the US economy is still continuing its decline by 15 April 2010, this dropping out of the system will be the reality for exponentially greater numbers of American taxpayers. From Freedom to Fascism, by Aaron Russo, same director/producer of such Hollywood movies such as The Rose with Bette Midler and Trading Places with Eddie Murphy. Russo shows the history of and tragedy that is the income tax.

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