I hope you all read my message. It is very imortant. I’ve received the final proof of my book In Earth as It Is in Heaven2012. After carefully reading the first thirty pages, I decided I’ve taken too much for granted. My book doesn’t properly communicate the message intended.
When I got to the time in my book, when I went in business with my father, I realized that you people would not know enough in what I wrote to know my message. I wanted to be concise. People lose interest when one is too detailed. In being concise I didn’t make my point. This is generally the problem. Writers explain the details and miss the point. I’ve a lot of work to do to make the point by writing the details that count.
The following revision in my book is to make the point I missed when I went into business with my father.
After World War II, lumber was in great demand. My father was in the lumber business. He offered to put me in business. New family owned lumber mills not on a railroad were experiencing difficulty in getting their products to big markets, like our market in Dallas. The Texas Railroad Commission was in charge of issuing for-hire truck permits. It was the doing of bought and paid for Texas politicians,
My father offered to buy a truck and give me ownership. He knew me. He knew I wouldn’t work for him. I’m too independent. I could pay for the truck with the fees I earned for hauling lumber from mill to market.
We provded a needed service. Some call free enterprise greed. It’s a play on words politicians use to encourage votes from “the poor and needy.”
The competition didn’t like what we were doing. They informed the IRS that we were hauling for hire. The IRS examined our books and saw that we were making more money hauling than selling. We were not making any profit on the haul. The books showed that all the money we received for hauling went to expenses.
The IRS claimed we were operating a subterfuge and left an Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) ruling to substantiate the IRS position. Because we owed a lot of transportation tax we had not paid, plus penalty and interest, the IRS employed deceit to collect a tax we did not owe. I checked out the ICC ruling. It was based on the fact that company owned trucks were backhauling for hire. We were not.
I learned from the IRS that contract unloaders were paying transportation tax. Transportation tax was imposed during World War II. This was years after the war ended. Said contractors, poor uneducated blacks with a junk heap truck, were unloading boxcars of lumber a block or two from the final destination. Ninety-nine percent was labor. Transportation tax was imposed on full payment. This was not help for the poor and needy. This was government’s big foot crushing the life out of free enterprise—making the poor and needy dependent on government.
The magic words to the IRS: “I’ll see you in court.” The IRS disappeared and was not heard from again on this matter. But how many would dare to tell the IRS that they were going to be challenged in court? We accept authority as knowing more that we know. It dates back to cavemen.
“For the good of all,” the IRS dishonestly robs Peter to pay Paul. The IRS takes orders from the Secretary of Treasury. He takes orders from the President. Based on how much he can do for them, the voters elect the President. The resourceful, who risk their efforts and capital, are being cheated by self-serving politicians.
This unconstitutional element, government giving to the individual, is incorporated in New Deal law. My book is dedicated toward making the American people aware that group rights do not point the nation toward good will, peace of mind, or prosperity. The majority vote does not replace rights written into the Bill of Rights. This is especially important for America’s youth to know. You are now responsible for the six trillion dollar national debt preceding generations have left for you to pay, ostensibly, “for the good of all.”
We, the American people, have not taken responsibility for the politicians we elect. America’s original politicians knew this problem. That’s why we have the Bill of Rights.
By leaving politicians in control, we, the voters, have left our children with an unconscionable debt to pay. Do I make my point? Hopefully, you will take the time to read my revised message. I hope to have my longer version ready in a month or two.
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