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BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Blade 4: The Shiv



Saturday, April 26, 2008  

Blade 4: The Shiv


I blogged a couple of months ago when Wesley Snipes' tax evasion trial began, and noted the curious defense he was attempting, and might actually succeed at. Essentially a "not guilty by reason of insanity" defense, since a curiosity of US tax law requires prosecutors to prove a person evaded paying taxes with bad intent. If you can convince the jury you sincerely believed you didn't have to pay, you can avoid prison. You'll still owe the money, but you won't go to jail.

Apparently Snipes' acting in court was as good as his acting in films, since the jury didn't buy it, and he was sentenced to the maximum term; 36 months in federal prison. (Which means he'll be out in 12-16, on good behavior.)

The prosecutors and judge made it fairly obvious that they were making an example of him, and hoping to use him as an object lesson and a deterrent to other people who might hope to use the same wacky arguments against paying taxes. For good measure, they really threw the book at the guys who were promulgating those arguments to Snipes and others:
Co-defendant Eddie Ray Kahn, a longtime tax protester who coached clients of his American Rights Litigators on how to beat the tax system, was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Co-Defendant Douglas Rosile, whom prosecutors called a "defrocked certified public accountant," was sentenced to 4-1/2 years for his part in the scheme. Both were convicted of conspiracy and tax fraud.

Prosecutors said Kahn and Rosile were "incorrigible tax offenders" whose anti-tax schemes caused "enormous damage to the administration of our tax system." They said at least nine other Kahn customers had been convicted of criminal tax violations and two had been indicted.
Silly wabbits; all they had to do was find a way to incorporate their tax evasion into a massive corporate structure and do it under a Republican administration.

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But do you know where you income taxes go that you pay?

Ronald Regan investigated it in 1984: Grace Commision Report and determined that the money paid in income tax goes to the Private Federal Reserve to pay interest on the money that is printed. Google Ronald Reagan Income Tax

Checkout Freedom to Facism by Aaron Russo about the tax issues at hand.

There is no Law required to pay taxes only a code that says it is voluntary, but they force it on you to make you pay, by wrongly putting you in jail.

Check out www.voluntarytax.info


 

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