John 8:32
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Good Saturday Morning Everyone.
I have a question for you to think about this morning. Imagine for a minute that you have been paying a bill for 3 years. This bill is equal to one half of your monthly paycheck. You have been faithful in paying this bill on time and for the exact amount that the bill states you owe. Now you find out that after 3 years you do not owe this bill. You have been deceived and have paid for something you did not owe. What would you do?
I am here to tell you that something on this order has happened to the American people. Now I could tell you what it is but I don't think you would believe me. However if it is possible that what I am saying is true, would you want to investigate the facts and determine truth for yourself? If so then I ask you to go to the
Theft by Deception website and order this video for $20.00. It was a year in the making and anyone can understand it.
I met the author of this video on Saturday. He is a wonderful young man who loves our country and has paid the price for standing for truth. Now is the time for Americans to cast off the blinders that have been in place for 70 plus years. Now is the time to learn the truth. Once you have the facts then you can judge for yourself whether what you have been hearing is real or not. Order
Theft by Deception today and hear the facts that you will never hear from Dan Rather or Fox News or even Rush Limbaugh. I promise you that you will never be the same. However you will know the "rest of the story"!
Along with this video, Let Freedom Ring hopes to teach and inform you about more truth in the news. So, here is the second part of the report by Devvy Kidd on the monetary system. I encourage you to copy all parts of her report for further study and reference.
A special thanks to Dan Benham of ROC Group for sending me a copy of the original Grace Commission report to President Reagan. I have downloaded it to use in later postings. Let me just say that this document verifies what Devvy Kidd states in her report.
God Bless and have a good weekend.
The Income Tax is Not Necessary to Fund the U.S. Government
Devvy Kidd
First published in June 2001
Part 2:
America became the greatest, debt free nation on earth by a resourceful, independent, self-reliant people. Sadly, today we have a large percentage of our population who can't get through the day without a government memo telling them how, step-by-step, with a redistribution of average, ordinary Americans assets into the hands of the unproductive. A very sad commentary to what made our nation great and prosperous.
But I heard the debt is being paid down?
What you heard and reality are two separate issues altogether. The politicians must continue to fool the American people lest they catch on to this chicanery. Let's have a look at the numbers so you can see that any utterance that the national debt has been paid down X billions of dollars, is nothing more than bombastic gas, passed from one administration to the next and the latest recycled Congress.
In the chart below, an R next to the amount indicates a Republican President; a D is for a Democrat in the Oval Office. The Democrats had control of Congress from 1954, until the illusion billed as the "Republican Revolution" in 1994. Both houses of Congress were Republican controlled until after the 2000 "election", but this ended when in May 2001 James Jeffords 'fessed up to his real political agenda.
Current Congressionally created debt:
08/08/2001 $5,720,324,946,092.23 (R)
04/30/2001 $5,661,347,798,002.65 (R)
02/28/2001 $5,735,859,380,573.98 (R)
01/31/2001 $5,716,070,587,057.36 (R)
12/29/2000 $5,662,216,013,697.37 (D)
09/30/1998 $5,526,193,008,897.62 (D)
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73 (D)
09/30/1994 $4,692,749,910,013.32 (D)
09/30/1992 $4,064,620,655,521.66 (R)
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25 (R)
09/30/1988 $2,602,337,712,041.16 (R)
09/30/1987 $2,350,276,890,953.00 (R)
Updated 7.9.03
09/28/1990 $3,233,313,451,777.25 (R)
0930/1993 $4,411,488,883,139.38 (D)
09/30/1996 $5,224,810,939,135.73 (D)
09/30/1999 $5,656,270,901,615.43 (D)
09/28/2001 $5,807,463,412,200.06 (R)
09/30/2002 $6,228,235,965,597.16 (R)
06/30/2003 $6,670,121,155,027.26 (R)
The statistics above were obtained from the Bureau of The Public Debt's web site:
http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpenny.htm
As you can see, it doesn't matter which party is in office, there is no surplus and the debt cannot be paid down, it can only grow exponentially as long as Congress and the President have the central bank at their fingertips.
A "balanced budget" is nothing more than good political rhetoric, but in reality, it's a pipe dream strictly for public consumption. How can you balance your budget if you have no money to spend and are trillions of dollars in the hole? You can't. It's just another well crafted illusion to keep the masses pacified.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but the American people have awakened to this monumental theft and are demanding the only real solution that can be implemented: Abolishing the central bank, and a return to a constitutional monetary system with no income tax.
No central bank, no need for a direct tax
Without the central bank [the privately owned Federal Reserve] siphoning off the wealth of our nation, there would be no need for a personal income tax. Don't be fooled by this chant around the country for a flat tax, a consumption tax, sales tax or any other kind of personal income tax. There is absolutely no authority in the U.S. Constitution to implement any of these forms of taxation without apportionment. It is for this reason and this reason alone, that when it became apparent that the 16th Amendment was not going to be ratified by the states, fraud was committed and it was simply "proclaimed" ratified by then Secretary of State Philander Knox.
We don't need any direct taxation and these popular mantras are just new lies to replace old lies. Any one of these forms of taxation will still feed the cancer: the central bank. Any one of these forms of taxation is just another way to fleece the American people to enrich the pockets of the international banking cartel. Please consider the words of Congressman Ron Paul:
"Strictly speaking, it probably is not necessary for the federal government to tax anyone directly; it could simply print the money it needs. However, that would be too bold a stroke, for it would then be obvious to all what kind of counterfeiting operation the government is running. The present system combining taxation and inflation is akin to watering the milk: too much water and the people catch on."
What we need to do is take away the magical money machine called the "Fed," which will force Congress to live within its means and fund only those activities specifically enumerated by the supreme law of the land in Art. 1, § 8 of the U.S. Constitution:
Lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States, but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States, borrow Money on the credit of the United States, regulate commerce (trade), naturalization, bankruptcy laws, coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign Coin, fix the Standard of Weights and Measures, punishment regarding counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States, establish Post Offices and post Roads, Promote [Editorial note: "promote" does not mean fund] the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries, constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court, define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;
declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water, Raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years, provide and maintain a Navy, make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions, provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress,
Exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings, make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof. **
There is absolutely no authority for the federal government to legislate in areas of the environment, education, the NEA, the FDA and many others. It may surprise you to find out that agencies such as FDA, DEA and the EPA all derive their jurisdiction from international treaties. When the powers that be wish to circumvent the U.S. Constitution, they do it either through an executive order or international treaties. We strongly encourage you to investigate this issue thoroughly
Prior to the Federal Department of Education, America had the finest schools in the world. Since this disastrous and unconstitutional grab for power, we can all see that a quadrillion dollars a year will not fix our schools, and they continue to decline faster than the feds or states can shovel money into them. Even if a direct tax were necessary, only by keeping it at it's lowest possible percentage would it ever benefit this nation:
"The point now emphasized is that the evil effects of high surtaxes fall not upon the individual whose income is seized and taken, but ultimately almost entirely upon the mass of the people who are thereby deprived of the benefits which would result from the free flow of commercial transactions and the use of the additional capital which would be available for productive enterprise.
"Freedom of business transactions essential.
"The revenues to be obtained by the Government from this class of taxes depends upon transactions in trade and commerce which bring about income available for payment of taxes. It is highly desirable, in the interest of the production of revenue, that the volume of business transactions giving rise to gain shall be as great as possible, and to this end it is essential that the natural laws of trade and commerce and the free flow of business shall not be interfered with or prevented.
The excerpt below is from pgs 19-20, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the State of Finances for 1921:
"But the direct effect of these very high taxes is to hinder and prevent business transactions which would otherwise take place. A man may have property which he has held for years and which has greatly increased in value, and he would like to sell it, but if he does a large part of the gain would have to be paid out in taxes. He would rather keep the property than sell it, pay the tax, and invest what is left in something else. At the same time the party desiring to buy this property, if he obtained it, would improve it with buildings.
What is the result? The transaction does not take place, and the community loses the advantage which would come in the stimulation that would arise from the transactions resulting from the buyer's improvement of the property, and it also loses the advantage of the seller's putting his money into some other form of investment, which in turn would give rise to business transactions. The same thing on a much greater scale is true in manufacturing and mercantile lines. Men have built up enterprises to the point where they are highly successful. They would like to take their profit and turn the business over to younger men to carry on.
These transactions are highly desirable not only for the parties but for the community, yet they are absolutely stopped, because if made the seller would have to pay in one year a tax on a gain which has been the result of perhaps the better part of a lifetime of effort. And in all such cases the Government gets no tax, whereas if the rates were reasonable the transactions would take place and the Government's revenues would benefit accordingly.
The free interchange of property in business transactions is essential to the normal prosperity of the country, and each such transaction has a direct tendency to bring about others of like character with the result of increasing the amount of gain or income available for taxation; but when the tax is so high as to act as a deterrent against usual and desirable business transactions, and the volume of such transactions is thereby lessened, the inevitable result is for the tax to become less and less productive.
It is for these reasons that, particularly in the higher brackets, a lower tax rate will produce more revenue in the long run than excessive rates. So long as the high rate stands in the way of accomplishing bargains and sales, the Government receives no tax; but at a lower rate the transactions proceed and the Government shares in the profits." (End of excerpt.)
Today Americans are being fleeced to the tune of approximately 52% of every dollar going for local, state and federal taxes. The day is rapidly approaching when making even $1,000 per hour will not be enough to survive. How much longer are the people of this nation going to put up with this state of affairs? We say enough is enough!
Comment from Me:
If what Devvy is saying is true and it is. You may ask the question, What can I do?
First I encourage you to visit.
http://www.givemeliberty.org and join us in educating America. From there, you can help us move forward and begin turn this country around! It can be done. It will be done if God is with us and you can be a part of saving our beloved country. Join us today.
Elaine
