Saturday, January 31, 2009

I bet you a day's pay,

such as it is, that this man is a tax cheat too.

Republican Sen. Judd Gregg (N.H.) emerged yesterday as a serious contender to fill the remaining post in President Obama's Cabinet, saying he is under consideration by the White House to become commerce secretary, which opens the possibility of a filibuster-proof Democratic majority in the Senate.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/30/AR2009013003433.html?hpid=topnews

How many of you criminals over at United States have fudged your taxes?

That means that you are tax cheats. That is a crime. It's no wonder that United States can't bring itself to prosecute torturers, eavesdroppers, and other criminals, because you're all criminals. Everyone's got something on everyone else, don't they? So you all make a good show of it by prosecuting those who lack the ability to defend themselves. The little people, the ones with nothing on you.

...Well I got somethin' on ya. And I am going to clean your clocks once and for all.

The IRS has known about me for fifteen years because I sent letters to them by certified mail detailing my good faith belief that the income tax was being misapplied to me. I informed them that if they could not correct my understanding of the statutes, that I would not be filing ever again.

And I have not. And I have no intention of ever doing so. ...because I never heard back from them.

This country is a fraud from A to Z, isn't it?

P.S. Back when Alberto Gonzales was Attorney General, back when all the stops were being pulled out to get the goods on me, they must have come across my name on some "tax protester" list and figured that they had hit pay dirt. So a couple years ago some IRS guys come by the gas station looking for me. They never found me, so they settled for speaking with my boss. Nothing came of it because I never heard from them again.

So over here we've got a ten-dollar-an-hour gas station attendant who had PLAINLY INFORMED THE IRS MORE THAN A DECADE EARLIER that he had a good-faith intention never to pay another nickel in income tax, and over here we've got MILLIONAIRES who are cheating on their taxes, hoping that no one ever finds out.

See that you never, ever look me in the eye again, much less embarrass me by sending your substance-eater agents around to my place of work. It gives my business associates the impression that I am in trouble with the law.

You don't get it yet, do you? Every last thing I have ever done in my life has been in accordance with some good-faith effort to follow the law. I do not cheat. I never cheated on my taxes and I never, ever cheated on a test in school.

When that Massachusetts state trooper stopped me, one of the things he asked me was if I had any outstanding warrants or if I had ever been in trouble with the law. I replied, "Nope. I am the most law-abiding person you will ever meet."

And I am, aren't I?

I have been investigated up one side and down the next. I am the most highly vetted person in this room.

You will never, ever get me. ...because there is nothing on me.