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By Dave Scotese at 2:56PM
Jul 25, 2011

Accurate Perceptions of the IRS

Here is an IRS publication which consists of 27 examples of the legal system protecting the government's right to your money.  The first mention of a jury is one that acquitted, but it is immediately followed by a similar case in which the jury convicted.
 
 All of the other seven mentions of jury decisions are convictions in favor of the IRS.  Nobody likes to admit their mistakes, but wouldn't it be wise to keep a healthy record of the mistakes that a government bureaucracy makes?  In fact, shouldn't that be one of the functions of the IRS?  The website, irs.gov, contains five documents with the words "jury acquitted" and 52 with the words "jury convicted."  The internet itself contains about 85,000 (according to Google) pages with IRS and "jury convicted" in them, and about 25,000 with IRS and "jury acquitted."
 
 So why is the ratio of convictions to acquittals on the Internet so much lower than it is on the IRS site?  Perhaps a clue can be found in the case of the Rutherfords, who may have suffered from a jury whose judgment was compromised by a fear of audits.  Bullies only retain their power as long as they continue being bullies.  If they wish to have power some other way, they must learn to cooperate instead of intimidate.


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By David Hoyt at 4:57PM
Aug 2, 2010

Want to buy half an ounce of gold?

Well, of course you'll need to report that to your "benign" government overlords...because of, uh, healthcare?

1099 gold

Originally published at "The New American."

ObamaCare Gotcha – Even Coin Dealers and Coin Collectors Are Adversely Affected

by Kurt Hyde   
Monday, 12 July 2010

The ink has barely dried on the ObamaCare 101 DVDs that are being produced by The John Birch Society. Already JBS CEO Arthur Thompson’s prophetic warnings that as time progressed we’d find even more concerns in the so-called Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are coming true.

Numismatic News, a highly respected publication read by many coin collectors, reported a shocking discovery in both their printed publication and on their


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By Sam Swedberg at 2:16PM
Mar 31, 2010

Tax Day Ideas

Friends of YAL,

If you have any activism ideas in regards to Tax Day, please share them on the blog or send them into activism@yaliberty.org. Don't be shy; the more ideas we receive the better.

Here's my first idea. Think you can do better?

IRS THUGZ

IRS THUGGIN'

The IRS THUGZ will "make it rain" with the tax payer's money:

  • Members dress up as IRS agents
  • Buy a lot of fake money at a dollar store or some kind of thrift store
  • "Make it rain" with the money whenever you have a high amount of student traffic walking by
  • Play the "make it rain" song or some other thuggin' music
  • Signs and handouts about Gov't/IRS going wild with YOUR money
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By Shaun Bowen at 7:06PM
Mar 23, 2010

The Taxman Cometh

One of the promises given by then-candidate Barack Obama was that households making less than $250,000 dollars a year would not see any tax increase. So when he first promoted TARP, passed the biggest budget in history, and begged for more stimulus spending, he claimed that all of these new spending adventures would not be saddled on the backs of the average American. Of course the impossibility of this is obvious. You can't triple spending and not increase taxes; all you do is shift the costs onto the next generation through either inflation or higher direct taxes to pay back foreign loans.

Apparently we are to believe the same about Obama's Bush I-like pledge of "No New Taxes"  with the passage of the new healthcare bill. However I have one question, if there is no new tax burden in this bill then why is the IRS the enforcer of the individual mandate? According to CNSNews [emphasis added]:

Under the law, every individual and most businesses are required to report to the IRS, on their tax returns, whether they have purchased or provided the required level of coverage and disclose to the IRS which months, if any, in which they failed to do so....


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By Brian Beyer at 6:54AM
Feb 26, 2010

Ignorantia Juris Non Excusat

The centuries old axiom, Latin for, "Ignorance of the law does not excuse," has been used to lock up people all over the world. No matter how complicated the legal code, how absurd the rules, or how discreetly published the laws are, little or no leniency is ever seen. That is, unless, you are the law. In that case, anything goes. Charles Rangel, "chief thief" aka writer of the US tax code, is apparently ignorant of the very laws that he himself writes. And that is completely permissible to him, only because it was the errors of his staff.

This is not an isolated incident, either. He evaded paying taxes on a cozy villa in the Dominican Republic (that was probably paid for by taxpayer money), used Congressional letterhead to "promote a $30 million academic center at the City College of New York... which will house his papers," and evaded paying taxes on properties of his in New Jersey. This list, with enough tax violations to send the average Joe to prison for years, is far from complete. His infidelity to the tax code that, again, he himself writes provides more than ample evidence to kick him out of the House Ways and Means Committee and Congress. 


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By Shaun Bowen at 10:59AM
Sep 28, 2009

Don't Want Insurance, Go to Jail

Obama has consistently stated that the $1,900 fine for violating his "mandate" by not having health insurance is in no way a tax. However in  recent posts on Politico's site here and here not only have they comfirmed that the $1,900 will be enforced by the IRS but,

...for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance. Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty...

Great, just what the American people want, the IRS to have more authority over their lives, becoming de facto insurence police. Gives a little more credibility to those marching in the streets a few weeks ago. Just remember Yes We Can, Hope, and Change while they are slapping the cuffs on you.

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By Jared Fuller at 12:41AM
Apr 12, 2009

WFU YAL Tax Day Video

The idea here is more than making a simple YouTube video just for the heck of it. Really, you can use your YouTube videos for much more than just sharing with your friends; you can even share it with your school as a whole.
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By Caleb Kinley at 2:57AM
Dec 23, 2008

Monster in the Marble House-pt 2

In 1913, the Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) were ‘suspiciously’ created. Both were granted powers to ‘legally steal’ from the American people. One creates money out of thin air and steals by inflation (hidden tax), and the other steals a portion of the created money from its citizenry through what is termed an income tax. Not only can your money be legally stolen, but your properties and assets; everything you own, can be legally seized by the IRS. You can even be imprisoned by the IRS for failing to pay your taxes.
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