Greetings. I have a very good American friend who comes to stay every few months with me here on Samui. A retired ex career military man that has been around. not one of those you find in bars around Thailand bragging but he has seen a lot. he put me onto American talk radio. I now subscribe to Coast to coast AM so I can download there broadcasts. It doesn't cost much and it gives me something to listen to when the wife has her Thai soaps on
I was listening to one the other night that I had downloaded about an IRS whistleblower. This man was a certified accountant and then joined the IRS special investigation branch. A most eye opening interview indeed even though as a Brit it doesn't affect me in any way.
He tells of during the early part of his training of being reprimanded by his boss for reading the IRS law book. Something he says you would think would be necessary considering his job.
Anyway after some time there he found that what the IRS was doing had no mandate to do and was technically illegal. He said for a person to pay any tax they had to be legally liable for paying this tax and nowhere in the tax laws was there a liability for the average American citizen to do so.
He wrote up a 95 page report on this fact which he sent to his superiors and even went to meet the President and heads of congress.
All he actually got was told to resign and then charged with tax fraud.
He faced over 14 years in prison for whistleblowing but was found not guilty.
To this day they still refuse to answer any of the many questions put to them by this man and other members of the public and simply use the power of the Government to silence these people.
Unbelieveable
The podcast is on Piratebay if people want to listen just search for coast to coast 15 june 2013
I remember in the film Freedom to Fascism another ex IRS officer saying she looked for the law that said you had to pay tax and she couldn't find it so just how do they get away with it ?
isn't it supposed to be the Land of the free and the Home of the brave ?
The guy mentioned blog is here
Joseph R. "Joe" Banister