Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-06-10 Jun 10, 2013Only the IRS can attach 100% of a tax debtor's wages and/or property. Only the IRS can invade the privacy of a citizen without court process of any kind. Only the IRS can seize property without a court order. Only the IRS can force a citizen to try his case in a special court governed by the IRS. Only the IRS can compel the production of documents, records, and other materials without a court case being in existence. Only the IRS can with impunity publish the details of a citizens debt. Only the IRS can legally, without a court order, subject citizens to electronic surveillance. Only the IRS can force waiver of statute of limitations and other citizen's rights through the threat of Arbitrary assesment. Only the IRS uses extralegal coercion. Threats to witnesses to examine their taxes regularly produces whatever evidence the IRS dictates. Only the IRS is free to violate a written agreement with a citizen. Only the IRS uses reprisals against citizen and public officials alike. Only the IRS can take property on the basis of conjecture. Only the IRS is free to maintain lists of citizen guilty of no crime for the purpose of harassing and monitoring them. Only the IRS envelops all citizens. Only the IRS publicly admits that it's purpose is to instill fear in the citizenry as a technique of performing it's function.~ George V. Hansen Jun 7, 2013The agency that is so strict on the way Americans keep their books cannot even pass a financial audit.~ Ted StevensThe Internal Revenue Service is everything the so-called tax protesters said it was; nonresponsive, unable to withstand scrutiny, tyrannical, and oblivious to the rule of law and the U.S. Constitution.~ Joseph BanisterAt what exact point, then should one resist the communists? ... How we burned in the prison camps later thinking: what would things have been like if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if during periods of mass arrests people had simply not sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. ... The Organs [police] would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers ... and notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt.~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Jun 6, 2013Our tax system is based upon voluntary assessment and payment, not upon distraint.~ United States Supreme CourtIf no information or return is filed, [the] Internal Revenue Service cannot assess you.~ Gary Makovski... the key question is: can we define 'income' in a fair and reasonably straightforward manner? Unfortunately we have not yet succeeded in doing so.~ Shirley Peterson Jun 5, 2013Considering that senior officials at the Internal Revenue Service are fully aware of the fact that there is no law currently in existence making a U.S. citizen liable for or required to pay either the income tax or the social security employment tax, only a truly generous citizen would, upon discovering this, continue to voluntarily donate these taxes to the government by allowing them to be withheld from his paycheck on a 100% voluntary W-4 withholding agreement. But, then again, the IRS would be dead in the water without the "voluntary (and docile) compliance" of employers and employees and has said so all along.~ William CashYou can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, and that's good enough.~ Dr. Edwin Vieira Jun 4, 2013After the 16th Amendment was ratified, an income tax was imposed starting in 1913 with rates ranging from 1 percent to 7 percent with the top rate applying only to incomes in excess of $500,000. By 1916 that top rate had risen to 15 percent, on income in excess of $2,000,000. The top rate exceeded 90 percent at its peak in the early 1950s. The first 1040 form -- instructions and all -- took up only four pages. Today there are some 4,000 pages of tax forms and instructions. American workers and business are forced to spend more than 5.4 billion man-hours every year figuring out their taxes. Since those hours could be put to a more productive use, and almost surely would be in the absence of today’s incomprehensible tax code, the result is a large dead-weight output loss of some $200 billion each year. ... The IRS now has more enforcement personnel than the EPA, BATF, OSHA, FDA, and DEA combined. With its 115,000-man workforce, it has the power to search the property and financial documents of American citizens without a search warrant and to seize property from American citizens without a trial. It routinely does both. Economist James L. Payne has written a most revealing analysis of the IRS, a 1993 book entitled Costly Returns. He arrives at a stunning conclusion, the total cost to collect our federal taxes, including the effects on the economy as a whole adds up to an amazing 65 percent of all the tax dollars received annually. The U.S. tax system, says Payne, has produced hundreds of thousands of victims of erroneous IRS penalties, liens, levies, and tax advice. In answering taxpayer questions, for example, the IRS telephone information service has in previous years given about one-third of all callers -- as many as 8.5 million Americans -- the wrong answers to their questions. A 1987 General Accounting Office study found that 47 percent of a random sample of IRS correspondence -- including demands for payments -- contained errors. Incredibly a GAO audit of the IRS in 1993 found widespread evidence of financial malfeasance and gross negligence at the agency. The IRS could not account for 64 percent of its congressional appropriation!~ Dr. Lawrence W. Reed Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print