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The Tax Freedom 101 Report
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UPDATES:
* May Day - The Real Labor Day
* What Happened at the IRS Walkaround?

NEWS:
* Suppressing the Gold Market
* IMF Suggests Tax Policy for Global Good

INFORMATION:
* Together We Must Stand - or - Separately You Will Be Stood On!

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MAY DAY - The Real Labor Day
May 1st, International Workers' Day, is recognized in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa. This despite the fact that the holiday began in the 1880s in the United States, with the fight for an eight-hour work day. In 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions passed a resolution stating that eight hours would constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886. The resolution called for a general strike to achieve the goal, since legislative methods had already failed. With workers being forced to work ten, twelve, and fourteen hours a day, rank-and-file support for the eight-hour movement grew rapidly, despite the indifference and hostility of many union leaders. By April 1886, 250,000 workers were involved in the May Day movement.

The United States Labor Day is the world's May Day.

* What Happened at the IRS Walkaround?

Battalion of Tyranny Responders Circles IRS Headquarters shouting: "SHOW ME THE LAW!"
Commissioner Rossotti refuses to answer the questions and allegations raised by tax researchers.

A small army of tax honesty advocates from almost every state marched from the Jefferson Memorial to IRS headquarters in Washington, DC on Monday morning, April 9, 2001, to begin what history may come to view as the Boston Tea Party of the 21st century.

The crowd was attired in blue windbreakers of the style worn by federal officers, but instead of "FBI/ATF" on the back, these jackets were emblazoned with the words "Tyranny Response Team" in large gold letters. Under a perfect spring sky, they enthusiastically welcomed opening remarks by Bob Schulz,chairman of We The People Foundation. Schulz introduced Ex-IRS agents Joe Bannister, Sherry Jackson and John Turner and also introduced Bill Benson as the key researcher exposing the 16th amendment fraud. Also introduced were several employers who have stopped all employer withholding, including Nick Jesson and James Molen.

Under Jefferson's great marble columns, Schulz explained to marchers and onlookers that this march was to publicly challenge the IRS because they have failed to prove their legal authority to force most Americans to pay the federal income tax or to have it withheld from their pay.

As history records, Jefferson was gravely concerned about the unchecked power of a large federal bureaucracy and set out to insure that the structures and taxing limitations imposed by the constitution would prevent that from happening. Schulz noted several key quotes
from Jefferson:

Shortly after 10 a.m., the masses formed into a long serpentine column of marchers that stretched completely around the eastern portion of the tidal basin and started the march toward the IRS.

Holding high the Constitution and their banners, flags, and hand-held signs, the blue-clad battalion wove across the pathways and sidewalks of the monument grounds where thousands of onlookers were enjoying the blossoming cherry trees. They greeted and encouraged the marchers, who distributed copies of the USA Today ads previously run by We The People.

Hundreds of vehicles honked in support as police halted traffic for minutes at a time as the march crossed intersections including Independence Avenue and Constitution Avenue.

As the blocks-long parade neared IRS headquarters, numerous suited IRS employees and security personnel waited outside and peered out from building entrances and windows.

For the first time in history a large group of citizens defiantly circled the IRS complex several times chanting "Show me the law!"

Media coverage included Fox News, CNN, NBC as well as various print and radio reporters. Schulz and other leaders of the march gave a number of interviews to the reporters expressing outrage that the government of a free people would steadfastly refuse to disclose its legal authority to force most citizens to pay the income tax or to address the issue of fraud in the ratification of the 16th amendment.

At 11:30 Bob Schulz directly addressed the marchers and onlookers and again invited a representative of the IRS or the Commissioner, himself, to answer the allegations. After waiting respectfully for ten minutes outside the main entrance it was obvious that Rossotti would not appear. An additional written invitation was issued from the podium and hand delivered to a guard who passed it to IRS officials huddling in the hallway. During this wait the marchers forcefully repeated "Show us the law!" and "Show us Rossotti!"

After several minutes and a flurry of phone calls and confusion inside the building, Lt. E. Roberts Jr. of the Federal Protective Service appeared and was quoted, "There is nobody here that wants to talk to you. If you have a grievance there are procedures available". Predictably, this comment resulted in loud chuckling from the crowd.

After the Commissioner refused to address the gathering, Schulz again took the podium and announced that after six formal and failed attempts over two years to get answers to these critical legal grievances, the American public is now justified in taking escalated steps to oppose the unlawful operations of the IRS.

Schulz proclaimed that the government and the People are "on a collision course" and the next logical action is to actively encourage non-filing and non-withholding to force the government to address these claims. "After the continued refusal of the government to directly rebut these well-researched legal claims and explain where they are in error, one must conclude that they are TRUE and proceed to act accordingly. The People will not long tolerate a government that will not answer questions concerning the most basic claims of its legal authority. We The People have a long and well-anchored heritage of fighting tyranny and directly repelling the oppressive forces of the police state. Indeed it was Thomas Jefferson himself who openly suggested that a revolution every 20 to 30 years was necessary to maintain the proper balance of power between The People and the government."

After concluding remarks by Schulz, the march proceeded away from the IRS headquarters down Constitution Avenue toward the Washington mall area where a portable stage had been set up by We The People. Schulz invited several key tax movement leaders to address the march participants. Among those sharing their thoughts with the crowd were Joe Banister, Bill Benson, Sherry Jackson, John Turner, Leonard Roberto and Nick Jesson. Schulz concluded the day with his personal thanks and an admonition that this movement is growing quickly and will continue to strongly execute actions designed to return the order of law and liberty to the People.

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NEWS:
* Suppressing the Gold Market
Central banks around the world do not like the wild card of gold making it into the world economies. There has been speculation that central banks have been holding down the true value of gold to maintain the perceived *value* of paper currencies. This story and many other related stories have begun to creep into the news.

Proof of Fed's gold-market intervention?
Analyst claims central bank's meeting minutes belie denials
By Jon Dougherty - WorldNetDaily.com

A gold market analyst who has long suggested the federal government was involved in manipulating the price of gold says he discovered proof of his allegations in six-year-old Federal Reserve Board meeting minutes.

The charges, first made by the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee in 1999, are allegedly borne out in Federal Reserve Board meeting minutes dated Jan. 31, 1995, which were discovered by GATA analyst Reginald Howe, who has filed a lawsuit against the Fed, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Bank for International Settlements and "various investment houses."

The suit alleges that the Treasury Department's Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF) has been, as GATA long has alleged and as the Treasury Department has denied, surreptitiously intervening in the gold market by lending gold, Howe wrote in a statement.

"The Treasury Department's denials of involvement in the gold market have been made in the last two years not only to GATA but also to members of Congress and in response to inquiries from the public," Howe said.

The minutes feature a question by then-Federal Reserve Board Governor Lawrence Lindsey, who asked J. Virgil Mattingly, the Fed's general counsel, about the ESF's legal authority to engage in a financial rescue package for Mexico. (Editor's Note: Document is in Adobe Acrobat®, or .pdf, format. You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader® to open this file.)

"It's pretty clear that these ESF operations are authorized. I don't think there is a legal problem in terms of the authority. The statute [31 U.S.C. s. 5302] is very broadly worded in terms of words like 'credit' -- it has covered things like the gold swaps -- and it confers broad authority. Counsel at the White House called the Treasury's general counsel today and asked, 'Are you sure?' And the Treasury's general counsel said, 'I am sure.' Everyone is satisfied that a legal issue is not involved, if that helps," the minutes say.

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* IMF Suggests Tax Policy for Global Good.
The International Monetary Fund is forecasting economic difficulties for some countries unless U.S. tax cuts are made soon. Across the board tax cuts, and rate lowering should be the signal for some time to come. What should we expect when the dollar is the reserve currency of the world?

U.S. Must Speed Tax Cuts to Avoid Slump, IMF Says
By Mark Drajem - from Bloomberg.com

Washington, April 24 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. needs to speed up its tax cuts, the European Union should lower interest rates and Japan must overhaul its banks to head off a global economic slump, the International Monetary Fund's top official said.

``Worldwide, there is a self-reinforcing,'' downward tug, said Horst Koehler, the IMF's managing director. ``There is no region of the world that takes up the slack.''

The U.S. should make a tax cut retroactive to spur growth, and be ready to reduce interest rates again, Koehler said at a breakfast with reporters before the global lender's spring meetings in Washington this week.

Japan must dispose of bad loans in its banks and push poor-performing companies into bankruptcy, and the European Central Bank should reduce interest rates, he said.

Without those policy changes and renewed global economic growth, economies such as Argentina, Turkey and Indonesia will find it hard to escape a debt crunch and economic slowdown, he said.

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INFORMATION:
* Together We Must Stand - or - Separately You Will Be Stood On!
by Bryan Rusch - Independent Representative for the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship

As an independent representative for the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship I understand why the fellowship's motto is: "Together We Must Stand - or - Separately You Will Be Stood On". Monitoring the news daily in the tax honesty/education/revolt movement, call it what you will, I hear of casulties often - but they're not occurring often in our camp, although we are not immune from tyranny either. More on this later. I sometimes wonder why more people do not join up and lock arms together with the fellowship rather than go it alone when attempting to tackle the challenges of being a non-taxpayer. There seems to be a few reasons that I have encountered during the past five exhilarating and fulfilling years as an IR for the fellowship. See if you relate to any of them.

The first reason why someone investigating the tax movement might not discover the fellowship is because a person may simply have not heard of us. I find this amazing still seeing as the fellowship has been around for just over seventeen years, peppering alternative media with ads, utilizing a large IR and member base to spread the word about the fellowship - we're the longest running tax oriented educational association in the country by the way. Many other groups have come and gone, but we are still here.

Or perhaps a person has heard of the fellowship, but they don't understand what a fellowship is or does exactly, and how a fellowship is of importance in such a movement as this. Some terms to help define the word fellowship are: companionship, community of interest, the state of being an associate, a member or the quality or state of being comradely.

The court held that we are an unincorporated association in 1997, four years after our suit against the IRS raid on fellowship HQ. The gist of the ruling was that the government cannot regulate free associations such as ours, and that we were not obligated to have an employer identification number, nor withhold taxes from our staffers. Interestingly there is no reason why many small businesses cannot operate the same way as the fellowship. We will explain why in an upcoming edition of the Tax Freedom 101 Report.

The next reason a person may not investigate the fellowship is because they may have already found out what they believe to be the law about the nature of the tax situation on their own, and have maybe even taken the necessary steps to revert back to free citizen from taxpaying subject - crossing their fingers that their research is correct. However, in some of these instances a person has found what we like to call a well versed "guru" promising invincibility with a "tried and true" silver bullet. After firing this silver bullet, which actually turns out to be a blank, the smoke clears and the IRS is still standing, and ready to fire the next shot after taking careful aim. It is easy for people to latch on to the quick fix or "expert" with all the answers since it requires no effort on their part to become an instant "tax-free" citizen, except to follow the advice of a guru. As a side note here you should know that the fellowship, its staffers, and IR's never provide advice, we merely share what the law says. The gurus and authors of these silver bullets rarely require or encourage their customers to do their own due diligence in ascertaining the facts behind seemingly plausible and undeniable positions of actual tax liability or non-liability. When the battles begin with government it is not unusual for these self-styled guru's to take the next train leaving the station in order to get the hell outta dodge. Worse still these gurus can end up in a position where they can't help their customers if they wanted, since they find themselves on the other side of the government gun. So the case usually ends up with the guru long gone or impossible to reach when the proverbial excrement hits the fan. Caveat emptor people.

Then of course there are some who have heard of the fellowship. Some have heard praise, and some have heard perfunctitude. Some have heard conflicting statements, and some have heard concrete statements. Some have heard good reports, and some have heard bad reports. Some have heard just the facts and some have heard misrepresentations of the facts. Some have heard that the fellowship can make the IRS "go-away", and others have heard the fellowship invites trouble. And some have just heard it all. Rumors and innuendo is what keeps most away from our ranks. Making a decision to join the fellowship should not be a difficult one, especially since there really is no other organization who can put strength behind a motto such as ours, and then can actually back it up by putting their money where their mouth is, which is what the fellowship does when a member is damaged due to illegal IRS actions. We come together, and support each other, emotionally, spiritually, and always financially!

So for the fence sitters, the ones who have decided to sit back to "see what happens" to those who have learned what the law actually says, how the government is grossly misapplying the law, and yet have decided to draw a line in the sand, and in effect say to government: "I'm not going to continue to pay what amounts to nothing more than protection money to earn a living", you will only be able to sit on the fence for so long. We wish to remind the fence sitters that if they know the truth behind the income tax, but are unwilling to take a stand with or without us, then they're partly responsible for the continued tyranny against fellow citizens who are attempting to stand up for their own personal rights, and quite surprisingly the fence sitters rights as well. Fence sitters only maintain the status quo of ill trained government bureaucrats who continue their existence in part by the funding of the indifferent. This quote from the fellowship's main program agreement sums it up well.

"The Save-A-Patriot Fellowship Program is a brilliantly simple defensive weapon whose success has been phenomenal. How much more now with the new "Victory Express." You can take one pencil in your hands and snap it in half with very little effort; but try if with a fistful! In any battle, the allied participants must support one another or the enemy will "divide and conquer". Over the years, it has become evident that the socialists in government are unified in support of one another and worship only themselves, the money they control, and the power they wield. Their god is a god of materialism, and their goal is a one-world government where their authority can no longer be challenged. Any payment to the government that is not actually required by law, is no different than a tithe or free will offering to a church - except that in this case, it furthers the agenda of those socialists who are usurping the Constitution. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and therefore it is the "authority" that God has placed over us. By the application of a little logic, one can see that voluntary payments to a government that is in rebellion against the established authority, is no less than rebellion against God. If we are to contend for the faith, then we must stand unified in the support of our King when He orders us to: "Stand fast therefore in the liberty where-with Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage" Galatians-5:1.

Now for those fence sitters who have an inkling of what could possibly be the truth, but are unwilling to educate themselves, and verify the truth behind the income tax, we ask them, when will it be important? After your own ox gets gored? Sad to say this why many people start to look for answers, after some calamity or rape by government. The reality does not manifest itself until the trauma happens to them personally. Our best members who come to the fellowship are the ones who interestingly are not having any challenges from government, have taken the time to properly educate themselves, and then are eager to support the cause of liberty, now, before it is too late. The day is coming when it will be too late unless those who have a conscious act now.

Slander, slang, and sarcasm

The fellowship routinely takes some licks from other tax education particpants in the Constitutional Revival Movement. Terms such as "Sacrifice-A-Patriot" and the "followship" are among some of the invective used. Since we have a large membership we have large exposure - a large target for the IRS to shoot at in other words. When a member makes the news or is convicted for willful failure to file (a misdemeanor) or even evasion (a felony), as rare as that is, it is usually because the member came to us at the last hour after they did something to allow the IRS an easy prosecution. Since we don't turn anyone away who needs help, the fellowship takes unwarranted black eyes from others within the "patriot" community when a member is damaged. The perception created is that the fellowship is not worth the effort, presuming that this is the fate of all members. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fellowship is the best, if not only thing going that has a chance to restore honest government, or at least hold the current criminals in office at bay.

Then there is the term "pay-triots for profit" used by those who have been conditioned to believe everything should be for free. Although we are not labeled often as "pay-triots" we do charge for our services, and actually many have said we charge too little for the services we do provide. I tend to agree, but we want to help as many as possible, and do not want to preclude anyone from possible membership and education. The fact is we do have expenses. The fellowship staff, and IR's also have families, and need to eat. We also have the normal overhead and operating expenses of any other business in America. So yes, we have to make enough to exist and continue to bring you the finest education available. Please be assured that what we do make is rolled back into expanding our efforts. We are not in this fight for profit. Otherwise we would have taken a tax exemption from government like the plethora of liberty-lite conservative organizations that whine and ring their hands pleading for money while providing no solutions. The solution is together we must stand - or - separately we will be stood on.

Now let's remember what the fellowship has accomplished.

The fellowship in its 17 years as the largest Constitutionally founded and oriented association has managed to educate tens of thousands of Americans about lawful taxation, protected and defended the rights of thousands of Americans, consistently published the members' only newsletter Reasonable Action since 1984, produced the most comprehensive multi-media tax education course, a full computer access bbs CD-ROM legal research library for members, maintained an extensive staff to service its members, launched their own all digital radio network, and provided live streaming on-line educational classes for the public just to name a few things. There is still much more that can be done.

Where do you stand? Why not join today, and stand together with us?

Wishing you a tax-free day,
The Tax Freedom 101 Staff

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