Theft By Deception

MISREPRESENTATION -- MISAPPLICATION


The misrepresentation and misapplication of the United States federal income tax
constitutes the largest acquisition of wealth by way of deception in history.

A handful of government lawyers fabricated an intricate maze of legalese which
created a perfectly Constitutional tax (a tax on income derived from certain
types of international and foreign commerce), but which at the same time could
easily be misread to give the impression that the income of all Americans is
subject to the tax.

For decades the American people have been conditioned to believe that the income
tax applies to their income, and have been trained to pay "their" taxes. All the
while, however, hidden in the labyrinth of statutes and regulations, the law
itself showed that the federal income tax was never "their taxes" at all.

"Using clear language, well-produced graphics, and a simple step-by-step
approach, this video explains both how and why certain representatives of the
Federal Government long ago spun a statutory and regulatory web of deception
that created the myth of a compulsory federal income tax for the great majority
of United States citizens."

-T. Croghan, Attorney, former prosecutor for the U.S. Justice Department

THE DECEPTION !!!!

Insisting someone pay an "income tax" when that person receives no taxable
income is equivalent to insisting someone pay a whiskey-importing tax when the
person does not import whiskey.

This deception has been so successful for so long that now most people find it
difficult to even begin to doubt the "conventional wisdom" on the subject. When
one first reads this web page one may instinctively think "that can't possibly
be true."

The average citizen, though, will also admit that he surrenders his hard-earned
money to the IRS solely because of an assumption, not because he has ever seen
the law for himself.

[Ironically, the flawed "conventional wisdom" has been greatly strengthened by
the so-called "tax protestor" movement, which has for decades spread flawed and
often nonsensical arguments, usually arguing that there is something wrong with
the law, because they too were ignorant about what the law itself actually
says.]

In addition to misleading the public, the government lawyers who orchestrated
this scheme also misrepresented the law to their own subordinates in the IRS,
knowingly allowing them to misapply the law, and allowing Americans who never
owed the tax to be harassed, robbed, and even imprisoned.

The general public's false assumptions are shared by the vast majority of IRS
employees (who demand money from those who do not owe it), and by the tax
professionals (who incorrectly tell most Americans that they owe the tax). All
the while, the few inside the system who knew the truth allowed the American
people to make this trillion-dollar "mistake" year after year.