Stay Informed
July 19, 2001
A SALUTE TO BOB SCHULZ
OF "WE THE PEOPLE" FROM endtheirs.org
On July 1, 2001, Bob Schulz, Chairman of
the We
The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, began
a hunger fast which will continue until he dies or until IRS
Commissioner Charles O. Rossotti delivers to him a list of the
government's experts who will meet in a public forum on
September 18, 2001, at the National Press Club in Washington
D.C., with tax law researchers from the tax honest movement,
to argue against the conclusions of those researchers.
Bob's main request of the IRS is
"Show Us The Law" that requires most Americans to
file a tax return, pay the federal income tax or have the tax
withheld from their earnings. It takes one hell of a person,
American, to offer his life in defense of every other
Americans' Constitutional rights. No one person could
demonstrate their love for their country and their countrymen
than to offer up their life in protection of both. To me, Bob
Schulz is an American Hero and hopefully he doesn't have to
give his life to get the extortionist of the IRS to meet with
him and simply show him the law that requires most Americans
to pay the federal income tax.
The question that jumps in my mind is
when did anyone have to offer up his or her life to get a
government agency to answer a question? As much as I believe
that local, county, and state government is an apprenticeship
program for the federal government, I think that if you
questioned any of their tax laws, they would be more than
happy to show you the law that requires you to pay their tax.
But not the IRS, they're responsible to no one and they answer
to no one. How did we ever allow an agency of government to
get this far out of control?
I am not just speaking from my own
experience with the extortionist of the IRS, which was a 15
year nightmare that cost me my marriage, family, and 2
businesses. Even though I was found not guilty and had the IRS
assessments overturned by the Senate Finance Committee
investigating IRS abuse, the IRS was ordered and made a
repayment agreement with me that they reneged on and still
refuse to pay.
If that's not enough, I'm constantly
reading articles about how mismanaged and incompetent the IRS
is. July 18, 2001, the headline in the Toledo Blade newspaper
read, "Notices From IRS Might Not Be True Regarding The
Tax Cut Refund Checks." July 15, 2001 Scripps Howard News
Service reported that a Treasury Department sampling of
services at IRS walk-in centers this year found agents gave
taxpayers incorrect or insufficient advice on their tax
questions 73 percent of the time, a slight improvement over
last year's 81 percent error rate, which only proves IRS
employees don't know what their doing. June 17, 2001, the
headline in the Blade newspaper read, "Government Workers
Owe $2.5 Billion In Taxes." IRS records show that 340,000
federal government employees or retirees receiving government
pensions last year owe a total of $2.5 billion in unpaid
taxes.
Let's not forget that the IRS can not
account for over 60 percent of the money they receive and that
their investment in a $4 billion dollar computer system does
not work. The Blade newspaper headline on May 9, 2001 was
"IRS Review Finds Employees Surfing the Web for Sex,
Personal Gain." A sampling of Internal Revenue Service
employees found that they used about half their online time at
work to visit sex sites, gamble, trade stocks, participate in
chat rooms, and do other non-work related activity.
At what point do we say "enough is
enough?" Now even though Bob and I do not agree on how to
get rid of the IRS, we certainly agree that there is no place
in the United States of America for an agency like the IRS. I
wish Bob the best of success.
Donald
E. Iiams, Jr.
endtheirs.org
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