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Strategies & Market Trends : Income Taxes and Record Keeping ( tax ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tracker4x4 who wrote (3883)	8/1/2001 11:06:16 PM
From: CuriousGeorge	Respond to of 5810

Do not underestimate the ability of an individual to cause a change Bob Schulz Ends 24 Day Hunger Strike Washington D.C. - We The People Foundation For Constitutional Education, Inc. announce that at a meeting on July 20,2001 a top official at the Department of Justice and Congressman Roscoe Bartlett committed, in writing, to arrange a recorded, public meeting at which representatives of the Justice Department will officially answer to charges challenging the legal jurisdiction of the IRS and the enforcement of U.S. income tax laws against U.S. citizens. Separately, Congressman Bartlett said that appropriate representatives of the IRS will participate. Department of Justice U.S. Assistant Attorney General Dan Bryant and Congressmen Roscoe Bartlett (MD) signed a written agreement July 20, 2001, following negotiations with Foundation Chairman Robert Schulz. Also attending the meeting was Foundation member Roland Croteau and Foundation Board member Burr Deitz. (more ...) givemeliberty.org (The 861 argument ... Tax researchers assert that the evidence presented in this message is proof that the income tax does not apply to most U.S. citizens. Has it raised doubt in your mind? Here is what the Supreme Court has said about doubt. "In the interpretation of statutes levying taxes it is the established rule not to...enlarge their operations so as to embrace matters not specifically pointed out. In case of doubt they are construed most strongly against the government, and in favor of the citizen." (Gould v. Gould, 245 U.S. 151 (1917)). "[S]ettled rules of statutory construction...teach...that if doubt exists as to the construction of a taxing statute, the doubt shall be resolved in favor of the taxpayer" (Hassett v. Welch, 303, U.S. (1938)). Shouldn't these court rulings be applied to the income tax? givemeliberty.org