Well, once again tax time has come and gone. Each year we get our W-2s in the mail and, like good peasant merchants, we handed some of our hard-earned income over to the syndicate racketeers. . . er, sorry, I mean our government.
After doing my taxes, I was to receive $546 from the Feds, while I owed the State $847. Once I “took from Peter to pay Paul,” as they say, I would be in the red, owing the difference of $301.
I’ve been reading a lot about the IRS and the income tax laws. I figured I would try to outsmart the State Tax Department with the $847 I owed them. I only had about $500 in my account at the time, and I needed some time to get the rest of the cash together. I had read somewhere on the Internet, that a good way to stall for time when paying your taxes, is to conveniently forget to sign the check when you mail it in along with your tax forms. Damn, what a good idea! ( I would later regret this. Don’t believe everything on the internet.) Hell, it’s better than not paying it at all, I thought. I’ve learned about a couple from New Hampshire who have done just that, refused to pay income tax. In fact, as I write this the Feds and local law enforcement agencies are surrounding their home. I just watched the latest interview of Mr. Ed Brown on Youtube. He was wearing a Revolutionary Minuteman hat and explaining his patriotic views.
Mr. Ed Brown and his wife, Elaine, claim that there is no tax law that requires U.S. citizens to pay income tax to the Federal government. They’ve even posted a million dollar reward and say that they will gladly pay the income tax once someone shows them the written law. I’ve researched the tax law on Google and Wikipedia. I can’t find a damn thing. The jargon and double talk is so outrageous, it’s like reading your credit card terms-of-service pamphlet. It gives me a headache. No wonder people just pay it. They don’t want a headache, and they especially don’t want to go to jail.
In fact, many popular icons of American culture have been audited and threatened with jail time by the IRS: Willie Nelson, Evel Knievel, and Redd Foxx ,just to name a few. Oh yeah, don’t forget Mr. Las Vegas himself, Wayne Newton. Hey, he’s an icon of America too! (Well, to some people.) I’ve been thinking, didn’t we fight the American Revolution so we could tell King George to go fuck himself? What happened to the old adage, “No taxation without representation?” Remember the time we dressed up like Indians and threw all the tea in Boston Harbor? (We were already engaging in Black Ops. and False Flag propaganda, blaming the Indians for things and screwing them over from early on, but that’s another story.) My point is, that as Americans we were, and are, a sovereign and separate nation. The U.S. of A. was not founded to be a “Taxable Society.”
Anyhow, I even looked in the U.S. Constitution about taxes. It says something about a tax being levied on foreigners doing business with America. Only things being imported and exported with a foreign land are supposed to be taxed. U.S. citizens are not supposed to pay taxes. We are a sovereign nation. (Ask Bush what that means, better yet have him spell it, LOL) I have to say, I admire the Browns for their steadfastness, for sticking to their guns and standing their ground. My hat’s off to them, that takes some big balls to do what they’re doing.
I decided that I would be clever and not sign my check when I mailed it in to the State Tax Department. I figured they couldn’t cash it, and I went along with my daily life. Like I said, I had about $500 in the bank. I went on Ebay and bought a bunch of books from my favorite writers: Bukowski, Thompson, and Burroughs. The cost of the books was a few hundred dollars. I used Paypal and had the funds deducted from my bank account. While my book orders were being filled, the State Tax Dept. went ahead and cashed my $847 unsigned check. Of course, I had no idea that all of this was transpiring.
A few days later, I go to the mailbox and find nine overdrawn bank statements in my name. Now, the bank went ahead and cashed my unsigned check made out to the Tax Department, but I only had $500 in my account, so the bank paid the difference of $347 and charged me a $25 fee for covering the rest of the payment since I was short on funds. The other eight overdrawn statements were for Paypal and the books I ordered. The bank went ahead and made those payments too. I ended up paying a total of $225 in overdrawn fees!
So much for my cleverness. What the fuck was I thinking? I should have known better. The government owns the banks; it’s easy for them to get a check cashed. They own everything, they run the system. You or I could never get an unsigned check cashed. Sometimes I think Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should wear military uniforms like Hitler, Mussolini, Noriega, and Hussein did. After all, they run the Military Industrial Complex. They’re also war mongers, and close to being fascist dictators in this day and age. I guess they like the “Mafia” look. A suit and tie to hide their deceptions.
I guess I learned a lesson from my mistake. “You can’t con a con man, and you can’t bullshit a bullshitter.”. . . but you can try, until next April 17.
Peace and love, brothers and sisters,
kamuela vance