Let me take a swag and see if I can answer onlyrp and his cheering section:
Ron Paul supporters are made to look like complete idiots - if you buy the Hollywood created image AND look at a minority of kooks that would get the spotlight shown on them. Still, Ron Paul supporters keep plugging away for the cause. Ditto for those who are protesting taxes.
So, instead of condemning their efforts, you might be well advised to study the issue and then become a defender of the cause, even when you disagree with the people bold enough to act on their convictions. onlyrp has kept this incessant pissing match alive while avoiding discussing the actual legal and historical issues involved.
Let me explain something to onlyrp:
Where I live at, a sufficiently large enough contingent of people have protested taxes. As I told you, the courts won't even entertain the legal issues involved. The courts have basically said that laws illegally passed are okay and that's the end of the story. We lost and that's the way it is. onlyrp agrees and is basically saying to us 'throw in the towel."
But wait... the former U.S. Congressman in my district championed the cause and proposed a law to eliminate the income tax and get rid of the IRS. Books were written about that law that got on the New York Times Bestseller List. Rallies producing thousands of participants per rally, all across the country have been held. When my congressman retired, the guy that took his spot, reintroduced that bill and is fighting to do away with the income tax. Don't try to tell me the efforts don't work.
Where I live, it took people not paying taxes and then running for public office with that as their main theme. People have gone to jail. People have been murdered for refusing to pay the income tax. Congressmen have been put in prison on trumped up charges for their efforts to expose the income tax (Congressman George Hanson is an example.)
Just like the civil rights era and the victims that it claimed, we will not win without a demand; we will not win without controversy; we will not win without a fight.
This country can do well and good without an income tax. The only thing the income tax does is to redistribute the wealth. The American people have allowed the government to pass unconstitutional laws and to uphold them. Then, those brave enough to fight them have to face the scorn and ridicule of cowardly people that hide within our ranks. If the fight is a little nasty or someone pays a price, they have some smart ass comment to make about it.
Early in my life, I was inspired by stories of heroes like Nathan Hale. Hale was arrested for being an enemy combatant and hanged for "spying" at the ripe old age of 21. It was sacrifices like that which made our Freedom and Liberty possible today. Thomas Jefferson knew the risks as well when he was quoted as having stated:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Lastly along these lines, the primary reason that people are "winning" their cases is because the government cannot make the case that they had willful intent to break the law. It's a very simple equation. IRS agents, historians, lawyers, citizens, etc. all read the laws and cannot come to the conclusion, after reading the law, that they are supposed to pay an income tax. The courts will not entertain the legal arguments. So, in reality, the income tax is on the ropes. Ron Paul has benefited off of this fight... and that is what helped build the case against the Federal Reserve.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." (from the Declaration of Independence)
Ron Paul supporters are made to look like complete idiots - if you buy the Hollywood created image AND look at a minority of kooks that would get the spotlight shown on them. Still, Ron Paul supporters keep plugging away for the cause. Ditto for those who are protesting taxes.
So, instead of condemning their efforts, you might be well advised to study the issue and then become a defender of the cause, even when you disagree with the people bold enough to act on their convictions. onlyrp has kept this incessant pissing match alive while avoiding discussing the actual legal and historical issues involved.
Let me explain something to onlyrp:
Where I live at, a sufficiently large enough contingent of people have protested taxes. As I told you, the courts won't even entertain the legal issues involved. The courts have basically said that laws illegally passed are okay and that's the end of the story. We lost and that's the way it is. onlyrp agrees and is basically saying to us 'throw in the towel."
But wait... the former U.S. Congressman in my district championed the cause and proposed a law to eliminate the income tax and get rid of the IRS. Books were written about that law that got on the New York Times Bestseller List. Rallies producing thousands of participants per rally, all across the country have been held. When my congressman retired, the guy that took his spot, reintroduced that bill and is fighting to do away with the income tax. Don't try to tell me the efforts don't work.
Where I live, it took people not paying taxes and then running for public office with that as their main theme. People have gone to jail. People have been murdered for refusing to pay the income tax. Congressmen have been put in prison on trumped up charges for their efforts to expose the income tax (Congressman George Hanson is an example.)
Just like the civil rights era and the victims that it claimed, we will not win without a demand; we will not win without controversy; we will not win without a fight.
This country can do well and good without an income tax. The only thing the income tax does is to redistribute the wealth. The American people have allowed the government to pass unconstitutional laws and to uphold them. Then, those brave enough to fight them have to face the scorn and ridicule of cowardly people that hide within our ranks. If the fight is a little nasty or someone pays a price, they have some smart ass comment to make about it.
Early in my life, I was inspired by stories of heroes like Nathan Hale. Hale was arrested for being an enemy combatant and hanged for "spying" at the ripe old age of 21. It was sacrifices like that which made our Freedom and Liberty possible today. Thomas Jefferson knew the risks as well when he was quoted as having stated:
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Lastly along these lines, the primary reason that people are "winning" their cases is because the government cannot make the case that they had willful intent to break the law. It's a very simple equation. IRS agents, historians, lawyers, citizens, etc. all read the laws and cannot come to the conclusion, after reading the law, that they are supposed to pay an income tax. The courts will not entertain the legal arguments. So, in reality, the income tax is on the ropes. Ron Paul has benefited off of this fight... and that is what helped build the case against the Federal Reserve.
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security." (from the Declaration of Independence)
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