"A Monologue on Federal Fiscal Fraud"
by
Paul Andrew Mitchell, Founder
Account for Better Citizenship
Broadcast on Radio Station KSPT
Sandpoint, Idaho
September 11, 1992
Hello, Kevin. I wish I could have been there live last week, but
my schedule just didn't permit it. I am currently doing
extensive research into the U.S. Constitution and I have also
written an authoritative book. I am honored that station KSPT
has invited me to speak on federal income taxes and government
criminal activity. Let me begin by making this bold and
controversial statement: federal income taxation is the greatest
fiscal fraud that has ever been perpetrated upon any people at
any time in the history of the world. Our latest research has
uncovered a number of shocking but provable facts about this
fraud:
Point 1: The 16th Amendment, the income tax amendment, was never
ratified. The act of "declaring" it ratified was an act of
outright fraud by an administration bureaucrat in the year 1913.
This fraud is often cited as the federal authority to tax the
incomes of individuals and corporations. Congress has now been
formally notified and has fallen completely silent.
Point 2: The 14th Amendment was not lawfully ratified either.
Instead, Congress extorted the approval of 7 southern States by
imposing a military occupation on them until they succumbed.
This occurred more than 2 years after the Civil War and after
those States were counted to ratify the 13th Amendment banning
slavery. Even so, not enough States ratified the 14th Amendment.
The sordid history is well documented in 2 standing decisions of
the Utah Supreme Court.
The 14th Amendment is crucial because it tried to introduce into
Law for the first time the status of "citizen (small 'c') of the
United States". Without it, there is no such thing as a "citizen
of the United States". A standing decision of the California
Supreme Court fully supports this finding. This fact is
paramount because federal regulations impose income taxes on
fictional "citizens of the United States".
Point 3: Equally compelling is our finding that the term "United
States" has 3 different meanings in law. First, it can mean a
sovereign country, like others in the family of nations. Second,
it can also mean the limited territory over which the Congress
has exclusive authority. Third, it can mean the 50 States of the
Union, like the 50 stars on the American flag.
When the income tax law -- Title 26 -- uses the term "United
States", it is referring only to the second of these 3 meanings,
that is, the areas over which Congress has exclusive
jurisdiction. These areas include D.C., Puerto Rico, and the
Virgin Islands. They do not include the areas inside the 50
States. This one fact all by itself has the power to crack the
entire Code of Internal Revenue, because it is a code, like Morse
Code or encrypted codes, filled with intentional vagueness and
deliberate deception.
Therefore, any federal statutes that are vague, like Title 26,
can and should be nullified for violating the supreme law of the
land. The U.S. Constitution guarantees to State Citizens like us
a fundamental right to ignore vague and ambiguous laws because
they violate the 6th Amendment in the Bill of Rights -- the first
10 amendments -- which were lawfully ratified and are now part
of the U.S. Constitution.
Point 4: Compensation for labor is not "income". The U.S.
Supreme Court has ruled numerous times that income is a profit or
a gain, not pay for services and not everything that "comes in".
The lower federal courts are now in total chaos on this point.
But the Supreme Court has never wavered from its original
definitions of "income".
Point 5: The Federal Reserve is not federal government. It is a
private credit monopoly which former Congressman Louis McFadden
once called "one of the most corrupt institutions the world has
ever known". Its collection agency is the IRS, which is not a
federal agency either. The IRS is now encouraged to violate the
Constitution to keep money flowing into the FED's banks.
Point 6: The really shocking fact is that federal income taxes
do not pay for any government services, like schools, roads, or
air traffic control. They are used to pay interest on the
federal debt. For example, if the debt principal is now $4
trillion and Congress pays an average of 7.5 percent, the
interest alone is $300 billion per year. The Kansas City FED
earned $610 million last year. Why? Because the FED is exempted
from income taxes by an Act of Congress, that's why!
Point 7: Federal income taxes are voluntary, believe it or not.
In 1953, Treasury official Dwight Avis made the following
remarkable statement to the House of Representatives:
Your income tax is 100 percent voluntary tax, and your
liquor tax is 100 percent enforced tax. Now, the situation
is as different as day and night.
The local tax burden is certainly easier to shoulder without also
volunteering to pay federal income taxes on top of it all. At
the local level, you can at least see what your taxes have
bought.
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