In my tenure as an IRS agent, I personally saw marriages broken, families torn apart, homes confiscated and businesses destroyed - all while my colleagues and I were out making unjust demands on the American people - without the proper authority.

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You know, I, and most people, are aware that governments (it matters not which country) are huge bureaucracies that generate waste and paperwork for the SAKE of the paperwork. The IRS is one part of that entire system of greed and excess.

The question is, how can one person fight? oh sure, I can stage protests, refuse to pay taxes, become an activist... but then my family suffers, I lose my job, I go to jail (and get forgotten because I was inconveniently telling the truth) and, perhaps, one day ... 50-60 years..not be scrutinized in suspicion.

I can rail mentally against the unfairness of the universe, but unless you are willing to own nothing and have no family, there is very little you can do about it.

The governmental figure heads can change, but the clerks and paperpushers all stay the same.

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you and may posterity forget that ye were once our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams (1722-1793), American revolutionary

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I notice the 'IRS Agent' article is dated 2002. How has the legal/constitutional challenge to the obligation to pay taxes been coming along since then?

I guess the response to a 'write-your-congressman' campaign wasn't satisfactory:

’Not one congressmen has acknowledged the record of the Citizens'
Truth-In-Taxation Hearing, much less the Hearing's 537 statements of fact,
supporting evidence and conclusions of law.

This, despite the fact that every constituent letter that accompanied the
record read in part, "The formal record of the hearing removes any doubt
that this nation's income tax system is unconstitutional in its origin,
fraudulent and abusive in its operation, and ultimately repugnant to every
principle of equal justice, due process of law and personal liberty that we
cherish as Americans”…

…The letters the People have received from congressmen are marked by
triviality or inferior worth. They also show the MOC's complicity in the
Socialistic Agenda of most of the traitors in congress.’ www.apfn.net

Sherasi: You asked, "How can one person fight?" As a one-person whistleblower and activist, who has lost bigtime, I can tell you that I just keep on trucking. I have noticed good changes in the areas where I have fought and lost cases. However, I also keep up on the latest trends, laws, cases, etc. so that I can continue to fight and hopefully make up for past loses, which I regard as investments in learning the ropes. I am presently working on two new cases. Of course, I also always keep up my sleeve the option of writing books on some specific topics of interest and importance. In short, it takes a certain personality to go it alone; otherwise, one can write to one's political leaders or to newspapers or indulge in prayer.

Prayer might be the best shot at getting tax abolished.

When Sherry Jackson spoke of 'marriages broken, families torn apart, homes confiscated and businesses destroyed', she wasn't describing illegal or improper actions by the IRS - she was describing the kind of thing that can happen when anyone gets into financial difficulty. It's tragic, for sure, and you'd hope that tax authorities would handle things sensitively, but it's not just taxation that causes money troubles. You might as well blame marriage breakdown on high rents or property prices, low wages, lax credit regulation and so on.

The claim that the demands were 'unjust' springs from the cranky notion that federal income tax in the US is somehow illegal or unconstitutional. Following the lead of the ill-informed eccentrics who propose not paying tax is more likely to lead to the problems described, than is following your legal (even patriotic and moral) obligation to pay tax.