IRS Taxes

ARTICLE 3:

by Scott Eric Rosenstiel
     In this article we'll examine what are commonly called IRS taxes.
     Most people in America today feel that the federal system of taxation
isn't working very well, from the collection techniques to how tax dollars
are spent, and even the president and many memebers of congress admit that
many items in the budget are there just to please various special-interest
groups.  It's also universally admitted that, despite the high levels of
taxation, both the deficit and the national debt and growing at an ever-
increasing rate.
     To reduce this problem, President Ronald Reagan created a commission
to study government waste entitled: The President's Private-Sector Survey
On Cost Control, popularly known as the "Grace Commission," named after its
chairman, J. Peter Grace.
     In his opening letter to the president in volume one of the report,
Chairman Grace revealed that "...all individual income tax revenues are
gone before one nickel is spent on the services which taxpayers expect from
their Government."
     This comes as a great shock to many, but the truth of the matter is
that IRS taxes as we known them today were never intended to pay for any
government services.
     The concept of the withholding tax was invented during the World War
II-era by Beardsley Ruml, who at the time was the chairman of the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York.
     To explain the new tax, and its purposes, Chairman Ruml wrote an
article which appeared in the January 1946 issue of "American Affairs."
Appropriately enough, the article was entitled, "Taxes For Revenue Are
Obsolete."
     In summarizing the points of his article, the editors of "American
Affairs" wrote, "...a sovereign national government is finally free of
money worries and need no longer levy taxes for the purpose of providing
itself with revenue."  Chairman Ruml himself does admit though that "...a
century and a half ago, the national government required revenues in order
to pay its bills."
     So taxes aren't needed for running the federal government anymore.
This leaves many asking, "Why does the government take so much of what I
earn?"
     Chairman Ruml, under the heading "What Taxes Are Really For," gave the
following answers:

          Federal taxes can be made to service four principle purposes of a
     social and economic character.  These purposes are:

         
  As an instrument of fiscal policy to help stabilize the
     purchasing power of the dollar;
           To express public policy in the distribution of wealth and of
     income, as in the case of the progressive income and estate taxes;
           To express public policy in subsidizing or in penalizing
     various industries and economic groups;
           To isolate and assess directly the costs of cretain national
     benefits, such as highways and social security.

          In the recent past, we have used our federal tax program
     consciously for each of these purposes.  In serving these purposes,
     the tax program is a means to an end.

     To summarize, here is what IRS taxes are and are not used for:


 They are used to help implement economic policies designed by the
federal government,
 They are used for social purposes (who should, and should not, in the
opinion of congress, have such-and-such amount of money), and
 They are used to subsidize various groups and interests, such as
private banks, but
 They are not used to pay for any government services.

     This means that if all IRS tax laws were repealed tomorrow, there
would be no effect on government services.  The only thing that would
change is that the federal government wouldn't be able to exert the social
and economic control that it currently does.
     There are more and more people saying that we'd be better off without
the regulated economy we currently have.  Certainly having the federal
government involved in every aspect of the economy was something never
contemplated by the framers of the federal constitution.
     Among those who've said that our federal tax system doesn't work is T.
Coleman Andrews, who actually served as the commissioner of Internal
Revenue back in the 1950's.
     After he left office, he began to speak out against what he perceived
as being "rapacious tax enactments."  In an article he wrote for the April
22, 1956 issue of "The American Weekly," he shared these reflections:

          As Commissioner of Internal Revenue I often thought how far we
     had gone toward coming ourselves "through excessive and unjust
     taxation."
          We have failed to realize, it seems to me, that through our tax
     system we have been playing right into the hands of the Marxists, who
     gleefully hail the income tax as the one sure instrument that will
     bring capitalism to its knees.

     On this point, it's interesting to note that a graduated income tax is
one of the planks of "The Communist Manifesto."  He also explained how
special-interest groups have exempted themselves fom taxation, and that the
true targets of IRS tax laws are the middle class:

          Whether you believe it or not, everybody is being overtaxed and
     the middle class is being taxed out of existence, and the nation,
     thereby, is being robbed of its surest guarantee of continued sound
     economic development and growth and its staunchest bulwark against the
     ascendancy of socialism.

     Almost every American, whether he's interested in current affairs or
not, believes that taxes are simply too high.  Some justify this to
themselves by saying that IRS taxes are absolutely necessary to pay for
needed government services, and that everyone is paying just as much as
they are.
     These arguments would undoubtedly disappear if more people knew that
IRS taxes are specifically targeted on the middle-class and don't pay for
any government services.
     This is where Sovereign Citizenship comes in.  As a Citizen, most IRS
tax laws simply won't apply to you.  You won't have to hope that congress
"gives you a break."  You won't have to change the tide of public opinion
to keep what you earn.  You'll simply use the law, as it's written, to your
advantage, instead of allowing it to be used advantageously against you.
     It's perfectly alright to do this.  Even the federal courts approve:

          Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low
     as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best
     pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's
     taxes.
          Helvering v. Gregory, Federal Reporter, 2nd series, Vol. 69, Page
     810 (1934)
     There's no patriotic duty to pay a lot in taxes.  But isn't there a
duty to yourself and your loved ones to reduce your costs, while justly
supporting your community with your increased purchasing power?

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