What makes you think you owe something to Congress?

When it comes to the idea that I owe something to the rest of society becuase I went out and earned some money, I've got to question that idea. Especially when someone says that my neighbors passed a law that says I am required to "share the wealth". I would have to doubt that such a law exists in the free country where I was born.

Even though I am just an ordinary person, I tend to believe that I am right when no one in government is willing to cite any lawful authority that would say that I am wrong. There is often a difference in what we may think or believe and actual reality. It seems such a shame to see so many millions of productive people coerced into such an unreal belief as federal income taxation in America. But, knowing actual reality will require your determination, you will have to challenge what you are told in order to know it as true or false.

If you should decide to make these filings, all that you are doing is returning to your original legal status and challenging the federal government to tax you lawfully, in that status. This is the quickest, simplest, and above all, most powerful way to regain and retain your Liberty.

This is only my opinion, but it seems to me that for as long as you are convinced that permission is needed from some great high authority, American Liberty will be in peril. Our foundation is that we are the authority, it seems that we need to re-learn that and explain it to our hired help in Washington D.C.

In my experience with this subject, it seems that there are two things that no one wants to do, regardless of their position. One is to give permission, and the other is to make a determination. It appears to me that if the Congress or IRS really had the great authority that they are credited with, they would not be so dependant on OUR determination.

It only demonstrates that we, are the authority. This is what it comes down to, each must make their own decision and determination, it is nothing different from what you are already doing. It's just that the determination you are already making is probably costing your future.

It makes me sick to hear a politician make a statement along the lines of "we can't let people provide for their own retirement". We elect a representative and all of a sudden we have an expert/daddy deciding what is best for us concerning our own lives. When did the role change?

It changed when "We the People" abdicated our responsibility for self governance. See, that is the way that it works, if you don't make the determinations for your own life, some self-interested politician will be glad to do it for you, or coerce you to yield your authority. And if you let it go on long enough, you then are hearing about what else they can't "let" you, in regard to your own life... because they know best.

But, our determination seems to be very much needed. You don't need to sign a form every time you buy a tank of gas and pay excise tax on each gallon. Could it be that you already authorized that tax via a properly executed law?

The USA has, from the very beginning, stood in defiance of a world that would withhold permission. It seems ironic that we, the children of rebellion, would now put so much into asking or seeking permission for what we should be able to determine on our own. Our forefathers held with what they determined to be right as individuals, and they collectively stayed the course to base our Republic on a foundation of self governance by law of the people.

Both their brilliance and humility are evidenced in the perfection that they left in our Constitution. The only thing that they could not fix would be our determination to keep it. Maybe that is as it should be.

The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated, that the time for fixing every essential right, on a legal basis, is while our rulers are honest, and ourselves united. From the conclusion of this war (revolution) we shall be going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of the war, will remain on us long, will be made heavier and heavier, till our rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion.

There are two subjects which I shall claim a right to further as long as I have breath: the public education and the subdivision of the counties into wards (townships). I consider the continuance of Republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks. Where every man is a sharer in the direction of his ward republic or of some of the higher ones, and feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year, but every day; when there shall not be a man in the State who shall not be a member of some one of its councils, great or small, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner then his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or Bonaparte.

Thomas Jefferson

If you are afraid, stop and feel the fear as much as you can. While it is with you, ask yourself if it could possibly be right that you are living in a country founded on the principles of freedom, Liberty, and the Sovereign rights of the people, yet you stand in fear of its government.

While so many gave their very lives to secure unalienable rights to this great nation, you have only to stand up to secure them to yourself and your posterity. If you will, you will learn that fear is a powerless jailer.

If you are still a little squeamish about the thought of actually applying this information, think about what is the worst that could happen. If you are already a federal income taxpayer, as far as you know, what's the harm in having the government prove it? If you had required them to prove it in the first place, you might not have been a federal income taxpayer for all of this time.

It is my hope that you will find this information useful. And, that you use it to your advantage and benefit. There is always some risk in setting aside fear to stand up for your right, take courage, for the benefit of having rights far outweigh that risk. Our rights have been won for us, it falls to us to retain them, in honor of those that have gone before.

Jon D. Luman