Sent In My Taxes Today, Reposted from elsewhere

Sent off my taxes a few days ago, and my anger over the evil of it has been percolating in my bloodstream like Folgers coffee.

For those not familiar with the standard US employee pay setup, here's how it works. Your earnings are taxed at a certain rate by the federal and state governments, and a certain amount is assessed for the cost of Medicare, Social Security, whatever communistic Ponzi scheme they're using. I don't even care to know. All of this is deducted from your paycheck before you ever even see it. And lest one think they only hit the employees, your employer has to match your Medicare/SS/whatever deduction with their own money, money they could A)Be paying you or B)Be using to benefit their store. Every spring your employer sends you a statement, called a W-2, showing how much each parasite has sucked from your paycheck. It is then your obligation to fill out paperwork showing how much money you made, and how much of it is "taxable." Taxable means if you were a productive member of your company and were paid in an equal proportion to your productivity, you may owe the government more simply because you worked harder and got paid for it. (W-2 forms should be considered null and void under the 5th Amendment "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" protection, however comparing Constitutional behavior to 99.6% of any level of government is like comparing apples to...bobsleds) Now, if you got paid less than a certain amount, you still have to go through this whole dog and pony show, and they'll send you back everything except the SS money, that stuff you'll NEVER see. I was lucky. I'm getting all the money that was stolen from me back.

Why am I torqued off about this?

It's my ******* money. And it was stolen from me in the first place.

I worked for that money. That money is a measurement of the life and energy I gave to my employer. I TRADED valuable time out of my finite lifespan for that money. Anyone can tell you, I worked HARD. That money represents my life, and it was taken from me without my permission. Whether I receive it all back or not is irrelevant. It was stolen from me.

For society not to have a serious breakdown of the social order, thieves should still be punished for their theft even after they returned their misgotten goods. They shouldn't get a time with a duncecap on merely because they weren't good enough to avoid getting caught. Nor should theft be ignored as long as the thief assures us that he'll drop a few bucks from our stolen wallets in the Salvation Army bucket - charity is meaningless when you perform it with money other than yours. The argument that all the nice and wonderful (and by the way unconstitutional) services the government performs or offers would cease to exist without the IRS coercing us into funding them with the threat of death or jailtime is moot.

I guess that would explain, why, while filling out my tax forms, I kept seeing Nazis lined up against a wall, justice being delivered to them in excess of 2000 feet per second.

And the absolute most hilarious thing about this is: It's all illegal! By the rules of their own agency, the IRS has absolutely no claim on your money. If you can find a copy of the IRS rulebook and are willing to wade through the morass (emphasis on those last three letters please) of sickening legal-ese, you'll find this little gem: "The tax system is based on voluntary compliance"

Thus spake the Federal Tax Regulations, Section 601.602.

Is it voluntary? Of course not. But by filing your taxes to avoid all that unpleasantness involving courtdates, judges, and trolls with guns, you give the IRS permission to continue looting your paycheck. Don't see it that way? Go talk to our court system. They've repeatedly held that by requesting permission to exercise a right, you thereby give the government permission to deny that permission to you, turning a right into a privilege. Basically, they can make your life an unbearable hell in order to force you to give them the ability to loot your paycheck, after which you have no legal leg to stand on. And your employer is prohibited by law from hiring you until you've filled out a REQUEST for withholding, otherwise known as the W-4 form.

Further wading through the tax code turns up a few more beautiful nuggets of rage-inducing regulation. Check out form Paragraph A of form 668W (the one authorizing the IRS to seize your paycheck, home, bank account, and property for lack of tax payments)...oh wait...it starts at Paragraph B. Guess what? That's because Paragraph A authorizes the IRS sieze money NOT as taxes from...only government employees. Which completely defangs the IRS.

Yet another interesting piece of information is the fact that the tax regulations to enforce the aforementioned paycheck seizure statute, come under the heading 27 CFR in the Code of Federal Regulations, not 26 CFR (Internal Revenue Code). 27 CFR is otherwise known as *drumroll please* Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearm. Which again completely defangs the IRS since this means they can only levy penalties on government employees who've made income relating to those three areas. (That taxation is a form of infringment, and it is therefore illegal under the 2nd Amendment to apply it to firearms is another story)

And another funny little tidbit about withholding. Remember that other onerous deduction, taken from your paycheck and flushed down the soiled Porta-john of Social Security? Check out Title 26, Chapter 21, Subtitle C, Section 3121 of the United States Code. Social Security deductions can only be made from the paychecks of employees within the United States. Which sounds legal enough, until they define the United States - as being the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. Pretty much anywhere under US jurisdiction except the 50 states.

Real nice.

There's really no point in my posting this except to get it off my chest. The most infuriating thing about all of this is not the Constitutional and legal abuses, but the principle behind it. My money was taken from me, I want it back and the thieves punished. At the same time however, I don't really want to be a martyr for the tax movement, so I'll shuffle along and fill out all those self-incriminating forms like a good little serf. The pains of making a principled stand far outnumber the benefits. I can only hope, one day, every Na...I mean IRS agent gets their day in court. A real court, not the tax courts that they haul us off to for tax violations, the ones where the above facts are inadmissable as evidence. After which, hopefully, everyone who's been coerced into turning over their money (and especially those RUINED by the IRS) will have a chance to decide their fate.

Wow. That started off as what LawDog and Kim du Toit (google those names) would call a proper rant, and veered sharply off course for nearly 40 minutes into legal waters. Thanks to Vin Supryowicz for writing the most EXCELLENT book "The Ballad Of Carl Drega" without which I would know very little of this infuriating information.