Lew Rockwell ran my article on going to jail for not filing your tax returns.
I was besieged by the victims of jailhouse lawyers who use word magic to beat the IRS. How dare I say such a thing! The IRS can be beaten by saying the magic words!
One of them said these gurus are courageous. I replied: "They are fools." He then sent my reply -- no confidentiality -- to his IRS-beating guru, an ex-con.
I got back a letter from the guru.
None of the people whose checks and filed forms in the loooonnnnng stack of links below -- who actually know the tax and how it works, and have used their knowledge year after year to secure complete refunds of EVERYTHING withheld from them (or paid in by them), including Social Security and Medicare taxes-- are in jail, nor are the tens of thousands of others of which these are a mere sampler. Study my work, as they did.P. S. "Charlatan" means someone who claims knowledge he does not actually have. I would use that term carefully if I were you.
THE LONG STACK OF LINKS BELOW connect to more than a thousand examples of the tens of thousands of complete income tax refunds being continuously secured from the federal and 38 state and local governments since 2003 by readers of [his book].
As you'll see in the documentation at the bottom of this page, all of these refunds have been thoroughly vetted by the government before being issued, and all have issued even while the government has striven mightily to suppress the knowledge of the law by which these claims are made.
CLICK ON ANY LINK to visit the page on which you'll find the announced victory of the liberating truth over state-encouraged misunderstanding. There are typically twenty or more posted on each page, so you may have to scroll to find the one you're looking for.
Watch for links in any text associated with a check or notice-- many of these victors have provided their complete filing for posting, as well. About halfway down this list you will find audio and video testimonials from a few of these good folks, as well.
I replied as follows:
If you are this man, may I have permission to quote your letter by name in my next published report?
I sent him a link to a web page that is basically his rap sheet, documenting how many times he has gone to prison. In one case, his wife was sent to prison, too. He also declared bankruptcy.
I asked his permission to use his name because I do not expose by name private emails sent to me.
All I asked was the right to publish his list of people he says beat the IRS and got refunds.
No, no, no!
Seeing that I may have lost track of the history of a few folks over the last twelve very busy years (and it IS only a few out of a huge field), and thus may have inadvertently spoken a little more broadly than perhaps I should have, I will agree under this condition-- that you agree, on your honor, to first carefully and thoroughly read through everything posted at [some tax protest site], following links and studying the documentation provided. Further, you must include this reply if your purpose in quoting my first email is to indicate that what I said was not strictly accurate.Each of these pages specifically addresses and debunks a great deal of the heavily spun and usually deeply-misrepresented content of the "tpgurus" page you cite. I would like to believe that you are not so naïve as to rely on the disapprobation of the state or adverse outcomes contrived in its all-too-frequently corrupt courts as the measure of what is right and what is wrong, or of what is true and what is false, but I've seen you rely on this page before as though it was scripture, so you need to read these pages to learn just how much spin you are getting.
This was the first of a series of replies.
This is a jailhouse lawyer -- literally.
If you want to share this guy's experience, be my guest.
I hope your wife does not wind up behind bars, the way his did.
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Update: April 6, 2018. The man is Pete Hendrickson. He is a convicted bomber. His story is here: https://www.garynorth.com/public/17925.cfm
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