http://batr.net/taxtyranny/ Truth in taxation means fairness by consumption levy and the downsizing the federal budget by half. Honest money and abolishing fractional reserve banking will restore the economy. 2006-05-30T11:30:25Z en-US http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/irs-targets-estate-planning-by-john.html Can you really, as you may have heard, avoid income taxes by placing your assets in a “pure trust,” “equity trust” or “constitutional trust”? Unfortunately, the answer is “no.” In recent years, the IRS has repeatedly fought these in court and won rulings SARTRE 2006-05-30T11:29:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/phantom-tax-bill-by-robert-novak.html Sen. Charles Grassley last Tuesday cavalierly rejected a summons to meet in the Oval Office with George W. Bush about tax legislation. Grassley, Senate Finance Committee chairman, said he could not make it because of visiting constituents from back home i SARTRE 2006-05-08T12:52:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/fcc-approves-net-wiretapping-taxes-by.html The Federal Communications Commission voted unanimously to levy what likely will amount to wiretapping taxes on companies, municipalities and universities, saying it would create an incentive for them to keep costs down and that it was necessary to fight SARTRE 2006-05-04T10:19:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/tax-breaks-and-governments-who-hate.html Governments and those who love them have an excellent talent for using language to disguise the true nature of taxes. Somewhere along the line, it became possible to refer to taxes and tax increases as "investments" without being mocked, and to refer quit SARTRE 2006-05-03T00:04:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/05/day-without-illegal-aliens-is-boon-to.html A day without illegal aliens would be a boon to U.S. taxpayers who wouldn’t pay for the tremendous social service costs of persons not legally in our country. On May 1, illegal alien activists are threatening to shut down major cities in what has been cal SARTRE 2006-05-01T16:09:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/federal-tax-on-gas-should-be-shelved.html Axing about 18 cents from the price of gas would provide some relief for Americans struggling to afford filling their tanks. The House and Senate should repeal the billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies it gave oil companies and other nonrenewab SARTRE 2006-04-28T16:18:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/taxpayers-lose-three-more-days-to-big.html Every April, the non-partisan Tax Foundation releases a report that calculates how many days of the year Americans must work to pay local, state and federal taxes. The day when Americans will have earned enough income to pay their total tax bill for the y SARTRE 2006-04-26T11:49:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/potential-tax-impact-at-gas-pump-by.html A provision attached to the Budget Reconciliation Bill (H.R. 4297) being debated in Congress would make it harder for U.S. oil producers to compete in the global marketplace. It's not the windfall profits tax -- a large bipartisan majority in both the Hou SARTRE 2006-04-24T17:52:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/anti-family-tax-by-terence-p-jeffrey.html The additional 16.7 million people that would be subjected to the AMT this year includes some couples with two or more children and incomes as low as $67,890. But families making low six figure incomes will be especially rocked by the tax. "In tax year 20 SARTRE 2006-04-20T11:47:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/your-tax-burden-is-bigger-than-tax-day.html Why should government cost us more than shelter? Political scientist James L. Payne examined the record of 14 congressional appropriations hearings and found that of 1,060 witnesses who testified, only seven spoke against spending money, while more than a SARTRE 2006-04-19T08:39:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/get-serious-about-tax-reform-by.html Tax bills enacted over the past five years have reduced the tax-bite for millions of Americans, but they’ve also make the tax code more mind-bogglingly complex than ever. A recent Cato Institute study found that the number of pages of federal tax rules le SARTRE 2006-04-18T11:14:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/at-tax-day-rally-conservatives-want.html “American people have consistently shown they don’t want their taxes raised,” said host Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform. But he added that “we have a less stupid government than many other people.” Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foun SARTRE 2006-04-18T11:12:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/its-time-to-scrap-tax-code-and-save.html The cost of the tax code essentially amounts to $125 billion in investment capital we do not have for the U.S. economy or for our education system (or for any other purpose you can think of). Unless Congress acts, over the next eight years, tax complexity SARTRE 2006-04-17T16:05:00Z http://batr.net/taxtyranny/2006/04/rocky-road-of-american-taxation-by.html No modern revolution was deeper rooted in taxation than the revolt of the Thirteen Colonies in British North America. British taxation not only caused the revolution, but perhaps most important, it acted as a unifying force in the colonies. 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