Posted at 02:40 PM in agriculture, Current Affairs, Government, Law, NWO, Police, Population Control, Regulation | Permalink | Comments (0)
"Vertical" Inequality. Although equality under the law is a bedrock American principle, the income tax treats citizens unequally. "Vertical" inequality is created by hugely different tax burdens on citizens at different income levels. Besides violating the spirit of equal protection guarantees of the Constitution, such unequal burdens distort perceptions about the costs and benefits of government because programs appear to be free of cost to many.
"Horizontal" Inequality. Even people with similar incomes are treated unequally by the many exemptions, deductions, credits, and other intricacies of the income tax. For example, there are 59 income tax provisions that vary depending on marital status. Likewise, the tax differences between homeowners and renters with the same incomes can be thousands of dollars because of itemized deductions for property taxes and mortgage interest.
Complexity, Ambiguity, and Uncertainty. The current IRS commissioner concedes that the income tax has become too complex for accurate administration, which is evident in the 28 percent IRS error rate on phone inquiries and 60 percent error rate on audits. Business tax rules are so ambiguous that many disputes drag on for years and are valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Huge Size and Instability of Tax Law. Tax laws, regulations, and related documentation span 45,662 pages. There were 441 changes to tax rules in last year's tax-cut law alone. Pension tax laws have been substantially changed nearly every year since the early 1980s, creating regulatory backlogs and leaving employers unsure about how to comply.
Denial of Due Process. The IRS engages in many summary judgments, and enforces them prior to any judicial determinations. Moreover, the very complexity and ambiguity of the income tax seems to violate due process. In 1926, the Supreme Court noted that a statute that is "so vague that men of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application, violates that first essential of due process of law."
Shifting of the Burden of Proof. For non-criminal tax cases -- the vast majority of cases -- the tax code reverses the centuries-old common law principle that the burden of proof rests with the accuser. Except in some narrow circumstances, the IRS does not have to prove the correctness of its determinations. When the IRS makes erroneous assessments, as it often does, citizens carry the burden to prove that they are wrong.
Unreasonable Searches and Seizures. The IRS's summons authority under tax code section 7602 allows it to obtain records of every description from any person without showing probable cause and without a court order.
Forced Self-Incrimination. The requirement to file tax returns sworn to under penalty of perjury operates to invalidate the Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Citizens face a legal dilemma. On the one hand, refusing to file a return would expose a citizen to prosecution for failure to file. On the other hand, disclosing information sought in tax returns constitutes a waiver of Fifth Amendment protections. The IRS can and does release that information to federal, state, and local agencies for both tax and non-tax law enforcement purposes.
Posted at 09:31 AM in Current Affairs, Government, Law, NWO, Taxes | Permalink | Comments (0)
Under construction by contractors with top-secret clearances, the blandly named Utah Data Center is being built for the National Security Agency. Its purpose: to intercept, decipher, analyze, and store vast swaths of the world’s communications as they zap down from satellites and zip through the underground and undersea cables of international, foreign, and domestic networks. The heavily fortified $2 billion center should be up and running in September 2013. Flowing through its servers and routers and stored in near-bottomless databases will be all forms of communication, including the complete contents of private emails, cell phone calls, and Google searches, as well as all sorts of personal data trails—parking receipts, travel itineraries, bookstore purchases, and other digital “pocket litter.” It is, in some measure, the realization of the “total information awareness” program created during the first term of the Bush administration—an effort that was killed by Congress in 2003 after it caused an outcry over its potential for invading Americans’ privacy.
The NSA has turned its surveillance apparatus on the US and its citizens. It has established listening posts throughout the nation to collect and sift through billions of email messages and phone calls, whether they originate within the country or overseas. It has created a supercomputer of almost unimaginable speed to look for patterns and unscramble codes. Finally, the agency has begun building a place to store all the trillions of words and thoughts and whispers captured in its electronic net. And, of course, it’s all being done in secret.
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Contact this troll if her comments piss you off: EVIE HUDAK State Senator - District 19 Office Location: 200 East Colfax Denver, CO 80203 Capitol Phone: 303-866-4840 E-Mail: senatorhudak@gmail.com
Posted at 10:50 PM in Current Affairs, Government, Gun Control, Law, NWO, Police, Regulation | Permalink | Comments (0)
Does dialing 911 actually protect crime victims? Researchers found that less than 5 percent of all calls dispatched to police are made quickly enough for officers to stop a crime or arrest a suspect. The 911 bottom line: “cases in which 911 technology makes a substantial difference in the outcome of criminal events are extraordinarily rare.”
It’s not just that the police cannot protect you. They don’t even have to come when you call. In most states the government and police owe no legal duty to protect individual citizens from criminal attack. The District of Columbia’s highest court spelled out plainly the “fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen.”
The law is similar in most states. A Kansas statute precludes citizens from suing the government or the police for negligently failing to enforce the law or for failing to provide police or fire protection. A California law states that “neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for failure to establish a police department or otherwise provide police protection service.”[6] As one California appellate court wrote, “police officers have no affirmative statutory duty to do anything.”
The state legislatures and courts protect government entities and police departments from civil liability for failing to provide adequate police protection. Some states invoke the “sovereign immunity” defense, a throwback to the days when the subjects were forbidden to sue the king. Other states have statutes that prevent legal challenges to police “discretionary” functions. Courts preclude lawsuits in those states by holding that answering emergency calls or providing police protection are “discretionary” functions.Many states evade liability by relying on the ironically named “public duty” doctrine. Like a George Orwell slogan, that doctrine says: police owe a duty to protect the public in general, but not to protect any particular individual.
Posted at 08:32 PM in 911, Current Affairs, Gun Control, Law, NWO, Police | Permalink | Comments (0)
The crackdown is the latest controversial public heath push by Bloomberg, who in recent years has also banned restaurants from serving large, sugary sodas, forced hospitals to sell healthy foods and banned smoking in bars and restaurants.
In clear violation of HIPPA rules, officials also announced the creation of NYC RxStat, a centralized database that will track data on drug overdoses, prescriptions and emergency room visits.
Posted at 06:30 PM in Current Affairs, Drugs, Government, Health, Law, NWO, Population Control, Regulation | Permalink | Comments (0)
In direct violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act!
Supervalu, which runs groceries such as Cub Foods and Shop 'n Save, nearly doubled its store count by buying most of Albertson's, which included stores under that name as well as Jewel-Osco, Shaw's and Star Market. It now trails only Kroger Co. (KR) and Safeway Inc. (SWY) among the top U.S. grocery chains.
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HEALTH INSURANCE (The study used the Department of Justice (DOJ) system called the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, which measures antitrust concerns. A score above 1,000 on the index shows "moderate" market concentration and a score above 1,800 shows "high" market concentration.)
According to researchers:
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Nelson and many other family ranchers in the Midwest and West are hoping Congress can help them fight the gradual consolidation of the meat industry, which they say is hurting their business. A handful of large meatpacking companies slaughtered 80 percent of steers and heifers in 2005, up 30 percent from 20 years ago. The big 3 are ADM, Farmland Industries, and Tyson Foods
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OIL =>>> Exxon Mobil, Chevron Texaco, BP Amoco, Royal Dutch Shell, and Unocal
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RAILROADS =>>> Union Pacific, Burlington Northern, Santa Fe, CSX, and Norfolk Southern
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MAIL AND PACKAGE DELIVERY =>>> US Post Office, Federal Express, UPS, DHL
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PAPER PRODUCTS =>>> International Paper, Georgia Pacific, Weyerhaeuser, Kimberly Clark
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BEVERAGES =>>> Pepsi, Coca Cola, Inbev, SAB
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TOBACCO =>>> Phillip Morris (Altria), RJR Reynolds (Brown and Williamson), Universal
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AIRLINE MAKERS =>>> Boeing, Airbus
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MASS MEDIA =>>>90% of newspapers are owned by five companies, and four companies own 95% of the TV networks!
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PUBLISHING =>>> Thompson, McGraw Hill, Pearson, Wiley, Houghton Mifflin
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New York Times Op Ed by Louis Michael Seidman (a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University)
As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken. But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.
This is not to say that we should disobey all constitutional commands. Freedom of speech and religion, equal protection of the laws and protections against governmental deprivation of life, liberty or property are important, whether or not they are in the Constitution. We should continue to follow those requirements out of respect, not obligation.
But before abandoning our heritage of self-government, we ought to try extricating ourselves from constitutional bondage so that we can give real freedom a chance
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Here is the link
How come my high school counselor didn't help me with handouts?
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