The Nattering Nabobs of Negativism are Taxing My Patience

A recent advisory has been put out over the Net by certain well-meaning people which urges people to cooperate with the tax system and 'pay their taxes' because all the legal arguments against the system -- no matter how justified -- have been shot down in court, and thus there is no reason for patriots to go to jail.  The fact, however, is that this is false, and not only false, but -- so it seems to me -- a bunch of lies being put forth by a Dad Gummit agent intended to sap the will of those who want to resist.

More specifically, there have been two notable successes in recent months -- the Joe Bannister case for one, and another case in which a woman presented arguments to the IRS that she had no obligation to pay, and, because the IRS did not answer her, the jury declared her innocent.  There have also, of course, been some important failures -- Irwin Schiff, and the Simkanin/Arrow Products tax withholding case, among others.  But in spite of the failures, the fact that there have been some big successes should dispel the notion that you can't fight the system.

But even if there had been no successes, there is still a reason for people to resist the system in whatever way they can.  This reason is simply to bog it down -- the longer it takes for the Dad Gummit to prosecute you, the less likely it is that they will ever do it, or if they do, the greater the likelihood that they will screw it up, or that a judge with a conscience will block the Dad Gummit from sticking its fangs into
your neck.  And the more people there are who resist, the more bogged down the Dad Gummit becomes, until prosecutions become effectively impossible and force the Dad Gummit to change the law.  In fact, if only a small but substantial percent of citizens refused to pay their taxes, then -- purely aside from the psychological effect of the Dad Gummit's having to let hordes of tax refusers walk free -- the revenue shortfall plus the fear that tax resistance would snowball into something much bigger would force the Dad Gummit to change the law and improve its fairness substantially -- maybe even junk income taxes altogether.

And there's another thing that the 'pay your taxes' crowd doesn't tell you, namely, that the end of the line for tax resistance cases is often a jury, and jurors are taxpayers who just may know something about the subject, and something about the abuses of taxpayers by the IRS and the big questions about the legitimacy of tax law which have been raised by We The People and other groups and individuals.  And what with the Internet informing people about these issues, I think the prospect of bringing fairness to the tax system is definitely looking up -- as long as we do not listen to frightened housewives, gutless defeatists, and Dad Gummit agents in patriotic plumage.

Now in conclusion there is one thing that all people of patriotic bent should keep in mind: Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely; and since money is power, it follows that the more money The Beast has at its disposal, the more we will have citizens being abused by their 'servants'.  Accordingly, the very best way to stop Dad Gummit abuse is not to whine about the Constitution being shredded, but simply to cut the rations of the Beast which is doing it.