It's the happiest time of year again for those in the US: time to break out the checkbook and pay the bill for all of the wonderful things that Your Government has done for you in the last 365 days.
According to the IRS itself, the number of no-file, under- and no-pay, outright fraudulent and sometimes frivolous tax filings has
increased exponentially in the last few years. Congress has introduced scheme after scheme in an attempt to extort as much as possible out of the American public, and the IRS has increased it's number of audits and "super audits" dramatically as well.
As reported in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, many Americans just don't
care and are neither afraid nor even impressed.
I don't tend to go on about my own tax strategy, as giving out tax advice wholesale to strangers online is about as smart as setting up shop as a part-time heart surgeon at a local flea market. But no matter what your stance on the philosophical issue of income tax, there can hardly be any argument that the federal government of the US is nothing if not wasteful. One of my favourite editorials on
this issue was published over two years ago by James Ostrokowski, entitled "A $ 21 Trillion Tax Cut."
Some interesting facts can be gleaned from the numbers there, such as the fact that the IRS has a bigger budget than the Department of
Commerce, The Corps of Engineers, FEMA, the EPA, the SBA, the ATF, Customs, and the COMBINED expenditures of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches of our government (the only ones actually authorised by the Constitution btw.) It's big business chasing down Americans' money.
If you are an American, you have a legally-protected ability to secure the absolute lowest amount of tax bill you can, even to the point of zero liability, so long as you do so by legal means. I encourage everyone to do so, so as to starve the Leviathan State from it's ongoing campaign to finance it's operations via Ponzi schemes and looting operations. And, lest you fall prey to such nonsensical
arguments as are advocated by "tax protesters" please visit this site, which lists most of them and cites specific instances where they have been debunked, sometimes several times, sometimes with the protester ending up bankrupt, in jail, or both.
Think about it when you write that check. If you took your car to a shop which charged substantially more than any competitor, kept your car far longer than promised, then gave it back to you worse than you left it, why would you keep sending it back?
Phaedrus
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable."
--H. L. Mencken
According to the IRS itself, the number of no-file, under- and no-pay, outright fraudulent and sometimes frivolous tax filings has
increased exponentially in the last few years. Congress has introduced scheme after scheme in an attempt to extort as much as possible out of the American public, and the IRS has increased it's number of audits and "super audits" dramatically as well.
As reported in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, many Americans just don't
care and are neither afraid nor even impressed.
I don't tend to go on about my own tax strategy, as giving out tax advice wholesale to strangers online is about as smart as setting up shop as a part-time heart surgeon at a local flea market. But no matter what your stance on the philosophical issue of income tax, there can hardly be any argument that the federal government of the US is nothing if not wasteful. One of my favourite editorials on
this issue was published over two years ago by James Ostrokowski, entitled "A $ 21 Trillion Tax Cut."
Some interesting facts can be gleaned from the numbers there, such as the fact that the IRS has a bigger budget than the Department of
Commerce, The Corps of Engineers, FEMA, the EPA, the SBA, the ATF, Customs, and the COMBINED expenditures of the Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches of our government (the only ones actually authorised by the Constitution btw.) It's big business chasing down Americans' money.
If you are an American, you have a legally-protected ability to secure the absolute lowest amount of tax bill you can, even to the point of zero liability, so long as you do so by legal means. I encourage everyone to do so, so as to starve the Leviathan State from it's ongoing campaign to finance it's operations via Ponzi schemes and looting operations. And, lest you fall prey to such nonsensical
arguments as are advocated by "tax protesters" please visit this site, which lists most of them and cites specific instances where they have been debunked, sometimes several times, sometimes with the protester ending up bankrupt, in jail, or both.
Think about it when you write that check. If you took your car to a shop which charged substantially more than any competitor, kept your car far longer than promised, then gave it back to you worse than you left it, why would you keep sending it back?
Phaedrus
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable."
--H. L. Mencken
