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Congress Must Feel the Heat
Hi Dale,
You bring out a paradox: How can we peacefully resolve our current situation?
Yes, the Christian generally supports peaceful resolution of difficulties. However, Jesus himself warned that he did not bring peace, but the sword.
We’re dealing with human nature, so must acknowledge two maxims: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; and those who have power rarely if ever voluntarily surrender it.
Ronald Reagan hosted a breakfast for Evangelical leaders after there was some kind of victory on a “Moral Majority” issue. One of the preachers in attendance supposedly asked, “Mr. President, do you think Congress is beginning to see the light?”
Reagan’s response was reportedly, “Sir, I don’t believe it is nearly as important for Congress to see the light as to feel the heat.”
Whether we view the situation from the Christian perspective, which is the one I have, or from the more universal Age of Aquarius “cosmic consciousness” perspective, we see a need for transformation of humanity, whether individual or collective. In either, we embrace the notion, “The truth will set you free!”
However, history and experience have sobering effects. Man is chiefly motivated by his carnal appetites, and by mortal fear. In fact, most of his reasoning effort is directed to rationalizing his action or inaction.
Let’s consider the Internal Revenue Service for a moment by asking the question, “Is income tax necessary?” If the answer is negative, we will ask a second question: Is it necessary to have a substitute for income tax?
If the former chairman of the New York Federal Reserve Bank is to be believed, both answers are negative. Once the currency was allowed to “float” (not backed by anything), there was no need for tax. Government could cover expense by printing more money. The scheme since 1913 has been to launder “credit” of the United States through Federal Reserve banks. The effect of increasing money supply relative to goods and services is inflation, which imposes a hidden tax on all working and production classes.
Given this fact, which resulted in 400% inflation on essential goods and services in the 1973-90 period, it is obvious that there is no need for income tax or a national sales tax. And it should be just as obvious that the Internal Revenue Service serves some purpose other than replenishing government coffers.
Thurston Bell frames the situation nicely: Federalism relies on mass propaganda and terrorization, reinforced by random victimization, to accomplish its objectives.
A friend objects to my use of the term “propaganda”, but common contemporary understanding of the word conveys intended meaning. At any rate, we are dealing with a carefully crafted scheme designed to undermine sovereignty and solvency of the American people. It serves purposes of a political and wealth nobless oblige, i.e., a privileged ruling class, that has garnered the power of government for self-serving ends.
If we turn to scripture for enlightenment, we find that, “That which is crooked cannot be made straight...” (Ecclesiastes 1: 15)
And if we consider the law of nations (Oswald Spengler in “Decline of the West”), we find that no nation or society has ever voluntarily changed unless or until it suffered economic collapse severe enough that its social institutions failed, or it was defeated at war on home ground. Through 1935, 19 of the 21 known empires were destroyed from within.
Obviously, we have a choice: We can endure corruption until we are destroyed by it, or we can intentionally carve it out. So long as the system is tainted by the Federalism scheme, we’re doomed.
The Internal Revenue Service, and the bogus income tax scheme, must be viewed in the context of larger causes and forces. IRS, as such, is incidental. The tax system, as such, is incidental. Both serve as vehicles to accomplish sinister objectives. Those who devised the scheme are fully aware of the fraud, its effects, and its vulnerabilities.
My perspective of IRS and the income tax system is simply that they are what they are. We don’t need either, so both should be abolished. But the dilemma for entrenched powers is the probable consequence for admitting that neither is necessary.
In the meantime, IRS is eroding from the inside as well as the outside. The patriot community has learned enough about mandatory procedure and the like that people are better able to defend against IRS incursion, and Congressional hearings and General Accounting Office investigations have exposed widespread agency corruption. Administrative seizures are way down, criminal and civil prosecution is way down, and IRS is currently having a devil of a time hiring sufficient numbers of people. We have the example of Joe Banister and other former IRS personnel going public to expose agency corruption, and there are other incidents such as revenue officer training manuals that mysteriously made their way to me.
In a manner of speaking, each of us has a choice: You must choose this day whom you serve.
IRS personnel are increasingly choosing to get out of Dodge. As initiatives such as Pat Patton’s effort to criminally prosecute IRS personnel in the Arkansas-Oklahoma district increase, even more will leave, and those who remain will be increasingly cautious.
Had I been Mr. Reagan, I might have qualified the response by saying, “A few may see the light, but most need to feel the heat.”
Plato divided mankind into three classes: Those suited to rule should be subjected to strenuous academic rigors until they are devoid of self-interest. He called the few who have that potential philosopher kings. Whether we agree with Plato or not, it was his estimation of mankind. Then there is a somewhat larger class he described as “men of spirit.” Ideally, men of spirit have fidelity to truth. Then we have the masses, motivated chiefly by carnal appetites.
The example raises a question: What percentage of the population is morally motivated? Or in other terms, what percentage will seek and embrace truth at the expense of convenience of the moment?
Immanuel Kant restated approximately the same thing from a different perspective in his “Preface to the Metaphysics of Morals”. Those who actually shape cultural events and history are divided into two relatively small groups, the truly moral, and the truly immoral. The first is a social positive, the second is a social negative. The masses occupy space between the antipodes. However, those who might commonly be viewed as “good people” are still social negatives when they are not truly moral and willing to defend truth.
The Apostle James put it another way: “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” (James 1: 6-8)
As we consider IRS and the Federal income tax system, we need to keep an antecedent fact in mind: Federalism, as European Communism and Socialism, incorporates a mathematically impossible economic scheme. That which is impossible is impossible. It is certain to fail. And if we don’t have adequate relief mechanisms in place, the nation will be reduced to anarchy and chaos.
To restore national vitality, we must implement systemic change that goes beyond IRS. However, IRS and the fraudulent Federal income tax system are metaphorically the gates of modern Babylon. While it is impossible for us to segregate IRS personnel from the system, they can extricate themselves. As you and I are, they are free to choose different pursuits.
David Bosset recently transmitted a preliminary announcement relating to two corporations that have employed the Bosset Marketing gross income source procedure either to secure refunds or notice of pending refunds. The businesses are in revenue districts other than the one Bosset Marketing is in.
To me, at least, the Bosset announcement is significant in that IRS intra-agency communications are probably better than patriot communications. I would like to be a mouse in the corner at IRS management-level meetings. You can bet Patton’s criminal complaint initiative via the office of the Treasury Inspector General of Tax Administration, Thurston Bell initiatives via the Taxpayer Advocate (Ombudsman), et al, are subjects of concern. And effect must be demoralizing to IRS field agents who have front line exposure.
Given what we know about the Federalism scheme, it is difficult to rationalize compromise that substitutes one fraud for another while leaving the major culprit in place. I don’t view the functionary such as the IRS officer or agent as more than incidental. The object is the system itself.
Dan Meador
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