by Runaway Slave | Jan 18, 2006 | I.R.S., Libertarian Curmudgeon, Taxes
Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practise to deceive! — Sir Walter Scott No one would claim that the language of the law is simple. Never the less, the language of most tax laws is pretty clear about what is being taxed and who pays. Nobody goes to jail...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 24, 2005 | Essays & Articles, History, Human Interest, I.R.S., Libertarian Curmudgeon
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 naïve, amateur legal scholar who quoted...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 19, 2005 | Essays & Articles, I.R.S., Income Tax, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Liberty, Politics, Taxes
The venue for the jury trial was auspicious, right in the heart of downtown Philly, the City of Brotherly Love, the Cradle of Liberty. You couldn’t toss an empty out of your pickup without hitting something that celebrated our Constitutional freedoms. If the courtroom...
by Runaway Slave | Jul 19, 2005 | Essays & Articles, I.R.S., Income Tax, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Taxes
It’s been a hard year for jackbooted thugs. In the last six months the IRS has lost a string of, what are for them, high profile cases. The losses have generally been jury trials. Jury decisions do not set precedent for other cases. But if you lose enough of them...
by Runaway Slave | Apr 21, 2005 | Debt, Essays & Articles, I.R.S., Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Social Security, Taxes
In case a recent suggestion that most Americans are exempt from income tax failed to solidify this writer’s reputation as one of the world’s great Liberty Lunatics, I will now moveon to the voluntary nature of the national Ponzi Scheme, Social Security, in an effort...
by Runaway Slave | Apr 15, 2005 | Essays & Articles, I.R.S., Income Tax, Law, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Taxes
"Just how far down the rabbit hole do you want to go? — Morpheus to Neo in The Matrix It’s April 15th. That’s the deadline for Americans, under threat of financial ruin, armed raids and imprisonment to reveal the intimate details of our fiscal affairs to the...
