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29 January 2010
The following article by attorney Bill Butler is longish, and not always and easy read, but well worth the time. It deals with an issue I've been involved in more closely than I'd have liked for a number of years now, and there's really no end in sight.
As to whether the U.S. government is capable of such a colossal swindle, to think they are not one would have to believe that one little lie cannot lead to another bigger one, and another, and another. Governments are not only capable of this kind of mendacity, they thrive on . . . → Read More: Heading Down the Income Tax Rabbit Hole
9 March 2007
I didn’t have time for a new column this week. In keeping with my tax terror season theme, however, here’s an essay I did after a tax trial like the Browns’, that of Larken Rose, in the summer of 2005. The Browns of NH are still awaiting their opportunity to face a hail of lead.
I was in Philadelphia. I had just watched the Federal Government crush a citizen who dared oppose it. A half-dozen grey-suited federal lawyers and another in robes, federal employees all, convinced a jury that the defendant, a . . . → Read More: Fighting the Feds Then and Now
26 April 2006
Shortly after I turned 50 I had a medical checkup in Key West. I remember only one specific piece of information the doctor gave me during that exam. He said, “There is no reason anyone should ever die of colon cancer.” An annual preventive colonoscopy would detect most potentially dangerous tumors before they became serious. The doctor planned to have an endoscopic exam himself every year.
His remark impressed me because genetically I’m in a group whose members too often draw the short straw for cancer. My father’s uncle died of colon cancer at age 43. Two more of . . . → Read More: Preventive Medicine
11 April 2006
It’s probably because I’m living in a foreign land, but I’ve noticed fewer scary stories than usual this year about the dangers surrounding income taxes. The Service is still plenty scary. It still issues lots of carefully worded, thinly veiled threats.
And there’s still nothing like that little thrill of fear you get when you hear: “Hello, Mr. Taxpayer, I’m calling from the IRS.” We may have a system of “voluntary compliance” but fear of prison and financial ruin plays a major part in finding volunteers.
Living . . . → Read More: Beginning of the End for Tax Terrorism
31 March 2006
I think it was Voltaire who noted that paper money always returns to its intrinsic value. Money created out of thin air, as every dollar, euro, yen, franc and mark in the world are now created, must eventually return to the value of thin air. This graph shows the Consumer Price Index since 1800. Any technical analyst will tell you that when graphps approach the vertical, as this one is doing, they tend to reverse in a symetrical pattern.
Recent years have seen falling prices for everything that the government . . . → Read More: Unrecognized Evidence of Deflation
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