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* Revisiting Gone in 60 Minutes * The Boston Tea Party Message Board
* The Constitutional Quiz Question of the Week! NEWS: * Ron Paul's Tax Withholding Bill
* Estate Taxes * A Fine Example of Socialism or Just Theft.
INFORMATION: * The "Death Tax" Shell Game
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UPDATES: * Taking a Rest
The Tax Freedom 101 Report staff will be taking a hiatus for the next couple of weeks to recoup after a long tax re-education season. We will be providing updates, news, and information on a periodic and as needed basis in the Tax Freedom 101 alert forum here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TAXFREEDOM101.
* Revisiting Gone in 60 Minutes
In last week's issue we notified our readers of the 60 Minutes II piece that was to be aired that Tuesday evening called, "Tax Revolt". We also forewarned you on what to expect. If you would like to read the transcript of the piece that aired click here. Please note that the two lynch pins Social Security, and the Federal Reserve which hold together this massive fraud was not mentioned once - no surprise there. It would be nice if those who had appeared on 60 Minutes II could get the full film unedited to see what the media left out (if anything) or edited out for obvious reasons.
* The Boston Tea Party Message Board
There is also a good place to make your views known on the tax issues. It is called "The Boston Tea Party Message Board". Share your thoughts with others involved in the movement and place your own comments on the various subjects and articles posted there. Dumpin' tea in Boston Harbor now a Federal offense--but share your tax information here. Let's start a teabag campaign. Tax resisters welcome! Click here.
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NEWS: * Ron Paul's Tax Withholding Bill
Bill would end tax withholding - Congressman calls current revenue system 'inherently deceptive'
By Julie Foster - WorldNetDaily.com
Every American taxpayer should be required to write the federal government a check to cover his or her tax liabilities, rather than have an employer withhold the tax amount from paychecks, asserts a Texas congressman.
Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, is prepared to introduce legislation to that effect this week. Modeled after the "Cost of Government Awareness Act" he drafted last year, the bill is designed to make taxpayers aware of how much they are paying the government and to eliminate the burden of tax collection from employers -- especially churches.
"Withholding taxes are presumptively taken, often resulting in an interest-free loan by the taxpayer to the Treasury which is not refunded until sometime the next year," Paul said. "Furthermore, employers face a tremendous burden complying with the withholding requirements. Private employers should not be required to determine and collect federal tax liabilities. The federal government ought to have the honesty to present the American people with a monthly tax bill."
Related story: WARNING - Conspiracy Theory Ahead... The Ron Paul Letters - He Knows the Score!from the August 22nd, 2000 issue of The Tax Freedom 101 Report - providing more insight into the proposal for this new bill.
"Last week we ran a press release from representative Ron Paul's office. Our commentary regarding his proposed "Cost of Government Awareness Act of 2000" was intended to do one thing. Show how even well intentioned legislation can be detrimental to uncovering the truth about the income tax when it only provides the public with a façade of relief. However a good strategist never reveals his ultimate ends until his victim is committed or over extended beyond the point of recovery. We are trying to discover who Ron Paul's victims might possibly be."
* Estate Taxes
Under the law who really will see the benefit of an estate tax repeal under Subtitle B of title 26 - the IRC? We have a very good idea who. If you want to know read the information piece "The Death Tax Shell Game" contained in this issue after reading the news article "House Votes to Repeal Estate Taxes."
House Votes to Repeal Estate Taxes
By Donna Smith
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a $192 billion bill repealing estate and gift taxes over 10 years, as part of a Republican effort to push George W. Bush's tax cut package quickly through Congress.
The House voted 274 to 154 to repeal estate and gift taxes by 2011, with 58 Democrats joining the Republican majority to pass the bill. Three Republicans broke party ranks to vote against it.
Repealing estate taxes has been a major priority for small business and farm owners, who argue heirs are often forced to sell family businesses because of the levy.
``We have brought here before the American people an effort to end the death tax,'' said House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a Texas Republican. ``We choose to do that because we think it is fundamentally wrong to tax a family's legacy.''
But during debate on the measure, opponents argued the bill slowly phases out repeal of the tax to hide the true cost and to make it fit into Bush's $1.6 trillion tax cut.
The estate tax bill was the third portion of Bush's $1.6 trillion 10-year tax package to pass the Republican-controlled House. The House in March approved a $958 billion bill lowering income tax rates across the board and a $400 billion tax cut for married couples that also doubles the child credit from $500 to $1,000.
* A Fine Example of Socialism or Just Theft.
The following news story is a good example of blatant Socialism running its course. The title of the plan says it all... "share-the-wealth".
Taxpayers challenge state's school finance law
DALLAS – Four taxpayers filed suit today to challenge the constitutionality of the state's school finance law known as "Robin Hood,'' in which property-rich districts send part of their tax revenue to the state for redistribution to poorer districts.
The lawsuit, filed in state district court in Dallas, seeks to prevent Dallas and Highland Park independent school districts from collecting the taxes. The plaintiffs claim the share-the-wealth plan is an unfair statewide property tax that has raised taxes for all while forcing some districts to cut programs.
"We are exporting money out of the wealthy districts. We are not exporting excellence,'' said plaintiff David Hopson, a Dallas homeowner whose son attends private school.
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INFORMATION: * The "Death Tax" Shell Game
A Tax Freedom 101 Commentary - by Bryan Rusch
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, it was planned that way" - Franklin D. Roosevelt
The gift and estate tax is now widely referred to as the "Death Tax". A morbid oxymoron suitable to describe this hideous tax. Death to any tax is good in my book, but is Congress' seemingly benevolent actions to possibly repeal the "death tax" actually a well-planned scheme to remove something beneficial to citizens which has been hidden in plain view all along? We believe so since Congress has shown itself to rarely act in accordance and servitude toward our Constitutional Republic. Rather they're on a continual journey to further the agenda of the Marxist Socialist State for the benefit of their foreign buddies and the money masters.
Congress' recent posturing to eliminate the death tax could be due to one or a combination of factors.
The first factor we can think of is a phenomenon currently taking place on a wide-scale in America. That is the perfectly legal avoidance of the death tax via statutory and non-statutory property management and asset protection. We will call this first factor avenue "A" - that is people giving it away before they pass on, and we are not talking about the typical "I'm your friend call me" attorney approach using wills and trusts that end up in probate anyway. The wealthy who are "in-the-know" about sheltering and segregating assets avoid probate like the plague. They protect their property from hungry government and a litigious society by making use of legal vehicles not utilized by much of the general public.
The second factor is the actual written statutory law and what it says about the gift and estate tax. We will call this route avenue "B", a path less traveled, however one with greater merit by far as people awaken to their Constitutional heritage. Here is the real deal on avenue "B", and the not-so-obvious truth about the death tax, and the little secret about the law which Congress hopes you never learn. The death tax does not now nor has ever applied to citizens. That's correct. However don't try telling that to the ignorant masses, and the IRS. Even your local "tax pro" wouldn't know as many have never actually read the law, but they're paid well for their expertise in pseudo estate tax planning.
Here is why the death tax does not apply to citizens. This "death tax" takes the form of a direct tax, and is without apportionment as required by law. (See Article 1, section 2, Clause 3 and Article 1, Section 9, Clause 4 of the US Constitution) The death tax rather applies only to the foreigner, who is outside the protection of our Constitution, and therefore is the "person" lawfully subject to the tax under subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code. This is yet another reason why the IR Code is perfectly fine and does not need to be abolished, but just enforced as written!
Here is how we provide for circumvention of the Constitution and lesser laws that apply to citizens.
The third plank of the Communist Manifesto, which is the abolition of all rights of inheritance was partially accomplished be enactment of various "estate tax" laws taxing the "privilege" of transferring property after death and gift before death. However citizens have rights, but they may apply to government for privileges if they so desire - privileges such as the application to participate in our "voluntary" Social Security system which is for all practical purposes the main avenue for collecting ALL inheritance taxes from citizens who participate in wealth redistribution. By participating in the "system" as so many like to call it, a citizen unwittingly exchanges their rights for privileges, or in other words sells their inheritance for a bowl of pottage.
Reality 101 is that asserting ones rights in court today to obtain an inheritance via avenue "B" (without the number as a citizen) is difficult and attempts to do so are routinely trampled upon by the IRS and the courts. This may be the reason why many resort to following avenue "A", to avoid the trouble associated with probate and the inheritance tax. Many find it too much of a hassle to duke-it-out with the IRS monster, and the federally pensioned judges over their Constitutionally "secured" protection under the Fifth Amendment which reads in part: "No person shall be...deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."
At this point you may ask, if the law does not require citizens to pay the "death tax", but they still do, why is Congress attempting to slowly over ten years phase out the estate and gift tax? It just does not make sense. It certainly is not to benefit Congress' largesse when citizens unwittingly pay the tax due to ignorance. Perhaps Congress is starting to feel guilty over the decades of wealth rape and wants to throw the serfs a bone. But that can't be, because Congress is merely a representation of what the people wish - that being more socialism.
If what FDR said was true - that nothing in politics happens by accident, and what we said about the law is true - that the gift and estate tax is to be paid only by foreigners according to the law, then who would benefit if the law were removed? It would solely benefit foreigners, since it never really did apply to citizens to begin with. Now ask yourself this question. Why now? Why is Congress moving to repeal a part of the code that has successfully, albeit non-applicably, sucked the very life blood from the veins of the American widower and allowed those in power a tremendous windfall of revenue that could only make Karl Marx beam with pride? Is it a preemptive strike? A conditioning if you will of the public to avoid controversy when it is discovered that they did not actually owe the tax? Is too much of the public catching on, asserting their rights, and/or properly protecting their property? If this is the case, it would mean that Congress would have no way of goading the IRS into retrieving the money "the old fashioned way" so in the the interim must at least appear to be champions of a majority of the people by removing this seemingly sinful branch of the Code. Removal of some of the language in subtitle B of the Code is certainly a possibility for a long term approach on stemming the hemorrhage of flight capital of citizens from the welfare state.
Perhaps the removal of the death tax is a friendly gesture by Congress to foreigners who wish to reside and shelter their assets here from their own country. Since foreigners are the actual people currently subject to the tax as it exists now, they would certainly benefit from its removal down the road. This could be one reason, and moreover a seriously realistic scenario consistent with history and the track record of Congress.
Don't call me a conspiratorialist yet.
If Congress' road with respect to repeal of the death tax was paved with good intentions for its citizenry, does that mean they have unwittingly shot themselves and the working class in the foot again? Will Congress leave the people with yet another more costly road to hoe if they are to support the welfare state alone? Consider what Goethe said, "There is nothing more terrifying than ignorance in action." Are a majority of our Congressmen just ignorant of the law, or just well groomed idiots dancing at the end of strings controlled by Internationalists? Rest assured that nothing in politics happens by accident. For example, do you think Bill Clinton's opposition to the measure to remove the death tax as reported is a truly righteous act with the citizen's well-being in mind? If so you would expect the President at some point to say I'm repealing the Death Tax bill because it only benefits foreigners, not our citizens. More likely the political opposition by our President is planned so as to push through what will appear to be a compromise later. A compromise on some other piece of legislation aimed at taking more from the pockets of citizens.
So have we reached the end? Have we discovered what the real reason is for the attempt to repeal the death tax? The answer certainly could be one, a combination, or all of the above factors as we have outlined. Just remember, if the repeal of the Death Tax does happen, it was planned that way!
To learn what compromise was offered in exchange for the elimination of the death tax read "House Passes Marriage Tax Cut... big deal" from the July 18th, 2000 issue of The Tax Freedom 101 Report, click here.
Wishing you a tax-free day,
The Tax Freedom 101 Staff
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