My title today was the headline in The Palm Beach Post on December 6, 1986. The story began with, “Joseph W. Smith Jr. (me) is convinced he’ll never have any peace as long as he’s a taxpayer and the Internal Revenue Service exists.”
In the article, Holger Euringer, IRS public relations officer: “We did make numerous mistakes in the collection procedure. We are very sorry and we apologize.”
The article goes on to detail the “mistakes,” including the violation of a Tax Court order and the violation of a U.S. District Court order. The IRS was sorry for obstruction of justice? The article tells of the IRS going to my bank and seizing every cent in my checking account. All it took was a piece of paper, which did not even include a signature, to rob my wife and I of our rent and grocery money. The P.B.P. article ends with this admission: “Euringer said the Nov. 5 bank account levy was a mistake.” This kind of government mistake is what puts people on the street. And what kind of people? Working people struggling to exist.
Well, we're not perfect. Sometimes these "mistakes" happen. But think of the overall good your government is doing. Said Senator Bob Graham in a letter to me:The IRS is allowed to use "draconian" means in the collection procedure. Do say? I was a trouble maker--a "tax protester" trying to get out of paying my "fair" share of the tax burden, said Senator Graham and other liberal Democrats--the kind that would push grandma over a cliff.
Aside from the fact that I was a political conservative making waves, my wife and I were two average citizens struggling to exist. I was age 69, with a heart condition. My doctor told me I'd probably be having open-heart surgery within five years. My wife was 59, a medical secretary, was just diagnosed with cancer when the IRS letter arrived. But never mind this, I was a racist white man. Latino women make better judges. Obama put a Latino woman on the Supreme Court to judge me.
The Tea Party complains about being singled out. Here this: The Democrats had me red tagged as a tax protester. In 1994, the IRS went on a witch hunt to find tax protesters. I was retired, so the IRS, with nothing to go on, informed my wife’s employer that it was going to garnish her wages for unpaid income tax. She received a letter from the IRS telling her that unless she immediately paid $35,000 in unpaid income tax, penalty and interest, the IRS was authorized to seize our home, and anything else we owned in payment of the tax. This is actually what they do to individuals who make waves.
The Fifth Amendment, besides giving the IRS the right to say nothing in a congressional hearing, gives us due process of law. The U.S. District Court refused to hear the case. Think of this. The IRS had already violated two court orders. Taxpayers going to court under the due process clause of the Fifth amendment is a joke. As far as average Americans are concerned, the IRS can do no wrong. There is nothing you can do about it, right?
With nothing to go on, my wife, the victim of an IRS fraud--without even being allowed to be heard, I guess that aught to tell you what liberal Democrats are about. My Republican Congressman intervened. It was an IRS mistake.
Think of the stress this typical Democrat stunt needlessly causes. Obama is literally killing us. Which is the bigger of the two threats to your freedom, the United States or international terrorism? The United States, for security reasons, is secretly taking actions that threaten your freedom—such as the IRS' out-and-out robbery of the working people of America; such as gathering information on everything you do; such as attempting to take your guns; such as lying about everything. And you depend on your government to correct these wrongs? Just cool it and let them get to the bottom of this? Are you kidding? The majority of the voters love what the your government is doing. To them, "There but for the grace of God go I."
I believe God helps those who help themselves. The proof is in the pudding. My dreams have come true, thanks to the generosity of the American people, and no thanks to government. The least I can do is tell you the truth about government entitlement.
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