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From: dee@cca.UUCP (Donald Eastlake)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: Things IRS Won't Tell You #4
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Date: Mon, 12-Nov-84 14:45:57 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 12 14:45:57 1984
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This mostly sounds like garbage to me.  It is not clear that the
regulartions of any government body that are as voluminous as the IRS
regulations would be found to be totally consistent on microscopic
examination.  Although I suppose such regulations are technically not
laws, the enabling statues typically give then "the force of law".  Of
course they can't violate the Constitution but the Constitution is a
document of non-trivial complexity that is also subject to
interpretation.  You would be amazed at the things that the Customs and
Immigrations people can do in terms of seizure and arrest and these were
authorized by very eary Congresses, typically contemporaneous with the
adoption of the Bill of Rights, so it is assumed that they knew what the
Constitutional amendments were supposed to mean.

I could cite a number of particular things in this message that
strike me as silly but I don't want to generate a message just as
long as it was.
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	+	Donald E. Eastlake, III
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