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From: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: Abuses of the IRS -- #1
Message-ID: <137@epimass.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 14:57:29 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 14:57:29 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 7-Feb-86 20:52:05 EST
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Reply-To: jbuck@epimass.UUCP (Joe Buck)
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Summary: Documentation, please

In article <921@decwrl.DEC.COM> alpert@chovax.DEC writes:
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>There are basically two distinct (but related) issues addressed by
>the tax movement.  Number one is the legality and constitutionality
>of the income tax itself.

The income tax is specifically authorized in an amendment to the Constitution.
It's foolish to say the tax itself is unconstitutional.  If you want to
say that some IRS methods may be unconstitutional, that's another matter.

>			  Number two regards the illegal methods 
>used by the government, particularly the IRS, during the course of
>enforcing this tax.  In this article we will take a look at the
>way the IRS conducts its business.
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>The examples herein are *NOT* isolated instances, these are typical
>of all too many cases documented by organisations that keep track of
>IRS activites.  Also be forwarned that this is a long article -- more
>than 350 lines.
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>The following is excerpted from the book "To Harass Our People",
>(c) 1984 by Congressman George Hansen.

You mean FORMER congressman George Hansen, who left Congress in disgrace
after a number of shady financial deals, and who is now connected with
several extreme right-wing organizations.  I don't believe a word the
man says.

> [ IRS beats up citizens with billy clubs, threatens them with M-16's ]

Please post references to legitimate media coverage of any of these
incidents: regular daily newspapers, news magazines, or wire services,
documentation from groups opposed to the income tax will not do.
-- 
- Joe Buck
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