♣ Tax Honesty Hall of Fame

Wikipedia and government publications and officials call them “tax protesters.”

I call them heroes.

“What?” you say? “Heroes? These guys are deadbeats, losers, unpatriotic, tax cheats, they don't pay their “fair share;” evaders, dishonest, lawbreakers. I pay my taxes, why shouldn't they? How's the country going to run without taxes, anyhow?”

Ron Paul has made it abundantly clear to anyone willing to listen: our country need not run on taxes. The IRS can be completely eliminated merely by cutting back federal spending to the level of about a decade ago. Why then do we still have an income tax? It is a means of control, of keeping the population “in line” and in unreasoning fear of government.

“Confiscating the fruits of our labor through the income tax is crucial to the health of the state.” – Ron Paul, Who are the Patriots?

We allow the IRS leviathan to continue on its merry way, destroying countless lives, rattling its saber brazenly, and intentionally terrorizing the average working Joe. A few of countless instances are documented in America, Freedom to Fascism, one of filmmaker Aaron Russo's last gifts to his fellow countrymen. Yet a voice in the wilderness, Ron Paul, continues to tell us the truth about the destructive, wasteful, and completely unnecessary nature of the income tax.

“Abolishing the IRS altogether would trigger an avalanche of real growth in the economy.” – Ron Paul, The Double Trouble of Taxation

In the same way that the mass media ridicules Ron Paul and his ideas, the IRS, echoed sycophantically by its media shills and parroted by the brainwashed and brain-dead, marginalizes and demonizes some of the finest patriots and heroes of the modern-day American revolution.

What is your reaction to Wesley Snipes, after being acquitted of all felony charges, sentenced to three years in prison for misdemeanors? It's a good thing that the IRS isn't empowered to enforce jay-walking statutes, isn't it? I've heard of rapists and murderers being treated with more compassion, but we can't allow the frightening facade of the IRS, the world's largest organized crime syndicate and terrorist organization, to be tarnished, can we?

“Prosecutors said Snipes' case was important to send a message to would-be tax protesters not to test the government.” – Yahoo Movies

Yes, and what sort of message is that? The same un-American — no, inhuman — message echoed in comments responding to previous articles [linked below.] It is the perennial message of the bully and his entourage, the message that says “Bow your knee to the Almighty State, the federal government owns you and will have no other gods before it.”

Meanwhile, unheralded, underreported, and unappreciated, a growing list of men and women can be found to have nobly stood against the tide of tax tyranny. While some observers think the tax honesty movement is dead, others insist that it is just now reaching critical mass. Thanks to the patriots listed here, and many others perhaps less prominent but honorable nonetheless, the Tax Honesty movement presses on. You would do well to Google these heroes of the movement and learn from them. Presented in no particular order:

Irwin Schiff

Joe Bannister

Sherry Peel Jackson

Lindsey Springer

Tommy Cryer

Larken and Tessa Rose

Dr. Tom Clayton

Milton William Cooper

Vernice Kuglin

Eddie Kahn

Edware and Elaine Brown

Gordon Kahl

Lynne Meredith

Wesley Snipes

Bill Benson

Richard Simkanin

What could possibly make them believe strongly enough in their cause to be willing to suffer, to have their lives destroyed by the deceitful, unchecked, and inhumanly oppressive power of the IRS?

I urge you to learn not only from their successes but from their failures, their strategies and their mistakes. These are patriots, tried and true. They have stood firm against federal tyranny in America. Many of them have paid a heavy toll for their efforts, some have paid with their lives. Many are still paying the price, and deserve our financial support, our encouragement, and our undying gratitude.

Will you bow the knee to the IRS and condemn your fellow citizens, or will you honor them along with the other great American heroes in whose tradition they walk?

© 2008 Dann McCreary (aka creator)

– Permission to copy with attribution granted.