Re: Freeloader Farnsworth up next - Trial starts 12/12/05

"VRWC6" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 01:03:28 GMT, "Archmedes" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Philadelphia Inquirer
>> December 2, 2004
>>
>> Evading tax - and honesty
>>
>> A movement contends that paying federal income tax is not really
>> required.

> The movement in question contends that it's not LEGALLY required --
> which a bit like saying that in Nazi Germany of 1939 it was not
> LEGALLY required for all Jews to register with the government.
>
> The REAL issue, and one that is FAR more important over the long term,
> is that while paying income taxes MIGHT be legally required, it most
> definitely is not MORALLY required.


Spoken like a true freeloader.


>> By Bob Martin
>>
>> Would anyone contend that Al Capone, Leona Helmsley and Spiro Agnew
>> were political prisoners?
>>
>> Tax cheats would be a more appropriate name for these celebrity tax
>> evaders of yesteryear.
>>
>> But what about those among us who pay no federal income taxes
>> because they contend the law does not require us to do so?
>>
>> Tax cheats? No, they call themselves "the tax honesty movement."
>>
>> Their local darling now is Arthur Farnsworth. Days after losing his
>> bid for a $158,100-a-year seat in the U.S. House of Representatives,
>> Libertarian Farnsworth was indicted on charges of federal tax
>> evasion, a felony. The resident of West Rockhill Township in Bucks
>> County is now free on 10 percent of $100,000 bond pending trial on
>> Jan. 10 in federal court.
>>
>> And the Pennsylvania Libertarian Party is rallying around its man as
>> if he were a political prisoner.
>>
>> "Mr. Farnsworth, in his act of defiance, acts in the spirit of many
>> great Americans. The Founding Fathers we celebrate in Philadelphia
>> acted against unjust taxes; so did the participants in the Boston
>> Tea Party," said a news release from Bucks County Libertarian Chair
>> Maurice Reeves. It also calls Farnsworth "our brother in ideology."
>>
>> Let's get it right: Farnsworth is not railing against unjust taxes.
>> He's flat out stating that we don't have to pay them. He's charged
>> with evading income taxes for 1998, 1999 and 2000, during which he
>> earned about $221,000 total as a developmental engineer.
>>
>> He and his cohorts spread their theories across the Internet,
>> equating the law-abiding among us with those who blindly accepted
>> centuries ago that the world was flat.
>>
>> For the record, the law is clear enough for me and the millions of
>> others who recognize our obligation to pay federal income taxes,
>> even if we don't always support what's going on in Washington or
>> enjoy depleting our paychecks or checkbooks. Section 6012 of the
>> Internal Revenue Code says that income tax returns shall be made by
>> "every individual having for the taxable year gross income which
>> equals or exceeds the exemption amount," with clearly defined
>> exceptions.
>>
>> Reinforcing that is a record of vigorous prosecutions by U.S.
>> attorneys across the country. From fiscal 1999 through fiscal 2003,
>> they handled 5,370 criminal tax-evasion cases and won 5,065
>> convictions.
>>
>> That ought to be convincing evidence for anyone who doubts the law
>> requires us to file federal income taxes. It doesn't satisfy the
>> Libertarians, however.
>>
>> Farnsworth says on his Web site that the convictions stem from a
>> federal judiciary that is "necessarily biased" because it is
>> appointed by the same government hierarchy that is responsible for
>> the tax code.
>>
>> His Libertarian brothers - Reeves and David Jahn, the state party
>> chairman - say they do file federal income taxes but won't
>> acknowledge that Americans are obligated to pay.
>>
>> "I don't know whether it is the law," said Reeves, a Perkasie
>> resident. "My payment [of the tax] doesn't come from the fact that I
>> believe it is the law. My belief is that if I don't pay it,
>> somebody's going to come after me."
>>
>> Jahn, of Glenolden, said, "The position we've taken so far is that
>> we felt there were valid questions [about the tax code] that need to
>> be answered. Whether people choose to pay the tax is their own
>> choice; everyone's got to make their own decision."
>>
>> But Jahn makes it clear that the choice for him is only slightly more
>> palatable than cyanide.
>>
>> "The problem with income taxes is that they're intrusive. I have to
>> open my books every year to the government. It deprives me of my
>> individuality. I'm being subjected to a search, you're being frisked
>> for your income, expenses, deductions. I find it repulsive."
>>
>> Come on, Libertarians. Either tell the American public that we are
>> obligated to pay federal income taxes or acknowledge that you are
>> the political arm of the so-called "tax honesty" movement.
>>
>> You may make the distinction that the movement's activists are
>> standing on principle and a thorough study of the law; I say their
>> offense is no different from that of Capone, Helmsley and Agnew.
>>
>> Yes, there are few things that Americans hate more than taxes, but
>> one of them is freeloaders.


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