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UPDATES:
* New Addition to the Tax Freedom 101 Home-Study Program
* Fellowship Web Broadcast
* CAFR News and W.J. Burien Interview
* The Constitutional Quiz Question of the Week!

NEWS:
* Dear Taxpayer, We Have No Record of Your e-Privacy
* Squealing to the Bears

INFORMATION:
* Ron Paul - A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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* New Addition to the Tax Freedom 101 Home-Study Program
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* Fellowship Web Broadcast
If you would like to view the March 10th web broadcast class, click here. John Kotmair, founder and fiduciary of the fellowship picked up where he left off from the February 24th class as he continues to dissect the Internal Revenue Code. This web broadcast class from Save-A-Patriot Fellowship Headquarters is approximately 2 hours in length.

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* CAFR News and W.J. Burien Interview

Recently Walter J. Burien was interviewed by Alex Jones on our Liberty Works Radio Network. If you are unfamiliar with Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports you have not been a subscriber long to The Tax Freedom 101 Report. If you are familiar to the CAFR coverup then you may just want to learn the latest in the governments attempt to hide what they have left in plain view for so long.

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* Test Your Knowledge with: The Constitutional Quiz Question of the Week!

This week's question: Many Americans say that they are protected from "self incrimination" by the 5th amendment to the Constitution. Is this true?

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Privacy, Protection and Prosperity - How the Other Half Lives
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NEWS:
* Dear Taxpayer, We Have No Record of Your e-Privacy
So you think your privacy is secure even in government databases? Think again. Those Taxpayers who e-file returns may be surprised to learn that sensitive information such as addresses, SSN's and earnings were wide open for scrutiny by more than just government. Yes even your neighbor could have looked up your tax return and altered it if they so desired.

Study: IRS Data Open to Hackers
Thursday March 15

WASHINGTON (AP) -Government investigators were able to hack into the Internal Revenue Service computer system last year and access Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from electronically filed tax returns, a congressional report said Thursday.

``We demonstrated that unauthorized individuals, both internal and external to IRS, could have gained access to IRS' electronic filing systems and viewed and modified taxpayer data contained in those systems during the 2000 tax filing season,'' the General Accounting Office report stated.

The investigators said they were able to gain access to taxpayer information because the IRS had not securely configured its operating systems, implemented adequate password management practices or used encryption technology.

The IRS said it had no evidence that real intrusions actually occurred, but the GAO concluded the agency did not have ``adequate procedures to detect such intrusions.''

The IRS also said in its response that it had taken steps to better protect taxpayer privacy this year.

Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., chairman of the Governmental Affairs Committee, asked for the investigation.

Related story: e-file or e-gad? - DCN - Digital Chains Now, click here.

* Squealing to the Bears
The sheeple are beginning to squeal like stuck pigs to their money masters for relief. Today Alan Greenspan is likely to cut interest rates 3/4 of a percent. Will it really make a difference? Not when you can inflate and deflate the money supply at will. Interest rates are being portrayed to the sheeple as a panacea. When will the sheeple realize that interest rates are just another tool used by of the Federal Reserve to manipulate the markets?

Greenspan with envy
Commentary by Bill O'Reilly - WorldNetDaily.com

Excuse me, have you seen the soft landing? Anyone know where the bull market went? In January we were OK, coming back, getting up off the carpet. In March there is madness as the U.S. economy is sinking faster than Leonardo Di Caprio's career.

So what in God's name happened? Technology guru George Gilder is blaming Fed Chief Alan Greenspan. Gilder writes, "Six interest rates in the face of falling prices and a strong dollar were the cause of the tech explosion." Simply put, Gilder believes Greenspan strangled the tech expansion with a vengeance the Boston Strangler would have envied.

Is that true? Well, Greenspan will never tell. In fact the most powerful man in the world doesn't answer questions from the media. Occasionally he trots up to Congress and bores everybody silly, but he would never sit down and explain in plain English why he failed to cut interest rates last fall when even Pamela Anderson knew the economy was shaky.

Alan Greenspan is out of control. Take that to the bank. The guy messed up big time and now will not explain himself. The last time Greenspan was seen in public was at the ultra-expensive "Le Cirque" restaurant in New York City. Have you ever been to "Le Cirque"? It's good, but you won't get out of there for under a hundred bucks and that's with a glass of wine not a bottle. While millions of Americans are watching in horror as their mutual funds wither, Greenspan is living large. Let 'em eat cake.

For the rest of the commentary click here.

Mainstream salvo tonight about the Fed on Fox?

We will be very surprised if journalist Anne Williamson will be interviewed this evening on the O'Reilly Factor tonight regarding the Federal Reserve and their role in America's monetary system. She is expected to answer, "Is the Federal Reserve a fraud?"

"The O'Reilly Factor" airs Monday through Friday on Fox at 8 p.m. Eastern and is repeated at 11 p.m. Eastern and 4 a.m. Eastern. All guests are subject to change.

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INFORMATION:
* Ron Paul - A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
You may have heard or read the following speech by Ron Paul of Texas regarding HR 220 in the past. Perhaps you have not. Either way it is worth a review. Many of you who subscribe to this newsletter are concerned with privacy and liberty. Yet rarely do you have what skeptical friends and family would consider credible third party information on the importance of privacy. Especially from a representative who understands the issues with respect to individual liberties. Well now you do! This small speech before the House of Representatives is jam-packed with good and thought provoking statements, warnings and truth!

We have provided hyperlinks within this information section of the Tax Freedom 101 Report to other pertinent areas of information on this subject. Pass it along to friends and family today!

Statement of Ron Paul on the Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act (HR 220)
Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology
of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee
Government Reform and Oversight Committee: May 18, 2000

Statement of HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS

Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing on my legislation, HR 220, the Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act. I greatly appreciate your commitment to the issue of personal privacy. Protecting privacy is of increasing importance to the American people. Since I have introduced this bill, my office has received countless calls of support from Americans all across the country who are opposed to the use of uniform identifiers. I have also worked with a bipartisan coalition of members on various efforts to protect Americans from the surveillance state, such as the banking regulators "know your customer" scheme, and the attempt by the Post Office to violate the privacy of all Americans who use Commercial Mail Receiving Agencies (CMRAs).

The Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act represents a comprehensive attempt to protect the privacy of individual citizens from government surveillance via the use of standard identifiers. Among the provisions of the legislation is one repealing those sections of the 1996 Immigration Act that established federal standards for state drivers' licenses and those sections of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 that require the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a uniform standard health identifier. As I am sure my colleagues know, the language authorizing a national ID card was repealed in last years Transportation Appropriations bill and language prohibiting the expenditure of funds to develop a personal medical identifier has been included in the past two Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bills. These victories where made possible by the thousands of Americans who let their elected representatives know that they were opposed to federally-mandated identifiers.

Perhaps the most significant portion of HR 220 prohibits the use of the Social Security number for purposes not related to Social Security. For all intents and purposes, the Social Security number is already a national identification number. Today, in the majority of states, no American can get a job, open a bank account, get a drivers' license, receive a birth certificate for one's child without presenting their Social Security number. So widespread has the use of the Social Security number become that a member of my staff had to produce a Social Security number in order to get a fishing license! As a test of citizen resistance, the Census bureau asked 21,000 households to report their Social Security number on their census form. One of the reasons the Census bureau is interested in the Social Security number is as a key to unlock information held by other government agencies.

Since the creation of the Social Security number in 1935, there have been almost 40 congressionally-authorized uses of the Social Security number as an identification number for non-Social Security programs. Many of these uses, such as the requirement that employers report the Social Security number of new employees to the "new hires data base," have been enacted in the past few years.

Such Congressional actions do not reflect the intent of the Congress that created the Social Security system as that Congress in no way intended to create a national identifier. In fact, Congress never directly authorized the creation of the Social Security number -- they simply authorized the creation of an "appropriate record keeping and identification scheme." The Social Security number was actually the creation of the Internal Revenue Service!

The Social Security number did not become a popular identifier until the 1960s. In response to concerns about the use of the Social Security number, Congress passed the Privacy Act of 1974, because, as stated within the act itself, "The Congress finds the opportunities for an individual to secure employment, insurance and credit and his right to due process and other legal protections are endangered by the misuse of certain information systems."

The Privacy Act of 1974 states that "It shall be unlawful for any Federal, State or local government agency to deny any individual any right, benefit or privilege provided by law because of such individual's refusal to disclose his Social Security number." This is a good and necessary step toward protecting individual liberty.

Unfortunately, the language of the Privacy Act allows Congress to require the use of the Social Security number at will. In fact, just two years after the passage of the Privacy Act, Congress explicitly allowed state governments to use the Social Security number as an identifier for tax collection, motor vehicle registration and drivers license identification. When one considers the trend toward the use of the Social Security number as an identifier, the need for HR 220 becomes clear.

The Freedom and Privacy Restoration Act also contains a blanket prohibition on the use of identifiers to "investigate, monitor, oversee, or otherwise regulate" American citizens. Mr. chairman, prohibiting the Federal Government from using standard identifiers will ensure that American liberty is protected from the "surveillance state." Allowing the federal government to use standard identifiers to oversee private transactions present tremendous potential for abuse of civil liberties by unscrupulous government officials.

I am sure I need not remind the members of this Committee of the sad history of government officials of both parties using personal information contained in IRS or FBI files against their political enemies. Imagine the potential for abuse if an unscrupulous government official is able to access ones complete medical, credit, and employment history by simply typing the citizens "uniform identifier" into a database.

This history of abuse of personal information by government officials demonstrates that the only effective means of guaranteeing Americans privacy is to limit the ability of the government to collect and store information regarding a citizens personal matters. The only way to prevent the government from knowing this information is preventing them from using standard identifiers.

In addition to forbidding the federal government from creating national identifiers, this legislation forbids the federal government from blackmailing states into adopting uniform standard identifiers by withholding federal funds. One of the most onerous practices of Congress is the use of federal funds illegitimately taken from the American people to bribe states into obeying federal dictates.

Certain members of Congress are focusing on the use of the Social Security number and other identifiers by private businesses. However, this ignores the fact that the private sector was only following the lead of the federal government in using the Social Security number as an ID. In many cases, the use of the Social Security number by private business is directly mandated by the government, for example, banks use Social Security numbers as an identifier for their customers because the federal government required them to use the Social Security number for tax reporting purposes. Once the federal government stops using the Social Security number as an identifier, the majority of private businesses, whose livelihood depends on pleasing consumers, will respond to their customers demands and stop using the Social Security number and other standard identifiers in dealing with them.

I hope that we in Congress would not once again allow a problem Congress created to become an excuse for disregarding the constitutional limitations of federal police powers or imposing new mandates on businesses in the name of "protecting privacy." Federal mandates on private businesses may harm consumers by preventing business from offering improved services such as the ability to bring new products that consumers would be interested in immediately to the consumers' attention. These mandates will also further interfere with matters that should be resolved by private contracts.

Furthermore, as we have seen with the administrations so-called "medical privacy protection" proposal, federal "privacy protection laws" can actually undermine privacy by granting certain state-favored interests access to ones personal information.

Some may claim that the federal government needs expanded surveillance powers to protect against fraud or some other criminal activities. However, monitoring the transactions of every American in order to catch those few who are involved in some sort of illegal activity turns one of the great bulwarks of our liberty, the presumption of innocence, on its head. The federal government has no right to treat all Americans as criminals by spying on their relationship with their doctors, employers, or bankers. In fact, criminal law enforcement is reserved to the state and local governments by the Constitution's tenth amendment.

Others may claim that the federal government needs the power to monitor Americans in order to allow the government to operate more efficiently. However, in a constitutional republic the people are never asked to sacrifice their liberties to make the job of government officials a little bit easier. We are here to protect the freedom of the American people, not to make privacy invasion more efficient. The main reason Congress should take action to stop the use of standard identifiers is because the federal government lacks constitutional authority to force citizens to adopt a universal identifier for health care, employment, or any other reason. Any federal action that oversteps constitutional limitations violates liberty because it ratifies the principle that the federal government, not the Constitution, is the ultimate judge of its own jurisdiction over the people. The only effective protection of the rights of citizens is for Congress to follow Thomas Jefferson's advice and "bind (the federal government) down with the chains of the Constitution."

I once again extend my sincere appreciation to Chairman Horn and the other members of the Subcommittee for holding this hearing and express my hope that this hearing begins the process of protecting the rights of all citizens to conduct their lives free from government intrusion.

Related: The Police State Cometh - The Congressional Record (House) June 25th, 1997.

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The Tax Freedom 101 Staff

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