Tommy Cryer wins

I told you last month about the Browns and mentioned Tommy Cryer’s case. As a refresher, there is no law that demands payment of a tax on the average man’s wage and these people are fighting the system to prove it.

I was called everything from stupid c*nt to tin foil hat nutjob, but it appears that the last laugh is the tin foil hatters’. Tommy Cryer won his case. From the linked article:

The Internal Revenue Service has lost a lawyer’s challenge in front of a jury to prove a constitutional foundation for the nation’s income tax, and the victorious attorney now is setting his sights higher.

“I think now people are beginning to realize that this has got to be the largest fraud, backed up by intimidation and extortion and by the sheer force of taking peoples property and hard-earned money without any lawful authorization whatsoever,” lawyer Tom Cryer told WND just days after a jury in Louisiana acquitted him of two criminal tax counts.

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He said multiple Supreme Court opinions have affirmed an individual’s ownership of his or her own labor, and “exercising your fundamental rights” is not taxable. “It is definitely a trade. What most people receive in the form of wages, salaries or in my case fees that they personally earned for their labor is not received in exchange for nothing.”

He said there might be a profit that should be taxable, but there might not.

“The IRS lets Wal-Mart sell a trillion dollars worth of goods, but they can back out their cost of goods [before being taxed,]” he said. “The IRS considers, in the case of a Wal-Mart wage earner, 100 percent of what he takes in is profit.”

“But he’s using his life, energy and work lifespan, and depleting it as he goes,” Cryer told WND. “[Working] is a God-given fundamental right that is protected under the Constitution and can’t be taxed any more than exercising freedom of speech.”

Damn, wearing a tin foil hat has never felt so freaking fashionable.

~ by Miche on July 26, 2007.

11 Responses to “Tommy Cryer wins”

  1. cryers winns? I havent won anything

    http://sofiawinterborn.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/sofiawhen-it-comes-to-gossip-do-you-carry-and-bring/

  2. This sounds interesting. Was this story featured anywhere else except for the World Net Daily?

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  4. Awesome, I heard something about this. I’m so glad he made that point about it not being profit. I’m so glad they won. Great blog, thank you.

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    http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007707130321

  6. Wow, it’s encouraging that 12 jurors agreed that we shouldn’t have to pay income tax for individual labor. I find it hard to believe this is going to result in a mass revolt against the income tax, but one can hope.

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  8. Tommy Crier was acquitted of failure to file based upon his honestly held belief that he is not required to file a tax return. While that is certainly good news it isn’t as exciting as it would first appear.

    For some inexplicable reason the feds dismissed some of the more serious charges that could have resulted in jail time for Tommy.

    The taxes he owes have not been waived or dismissed and they will be collected by the same civil procedures that IRS uses to collect from everybody else.

    These are the same methods that they are using to garnish Vernice Kuglin’a FedEx salary for back taxes. She was also acquitted of failure to file and tax evasion. Don’t matter a bit, IRS is collecting the taxes she should have paid and it’s legal. The up side is that she isn’t in prison.

    For the record, I am in favor of abolishing income tax, but hanging your hat on obscure technicalities simply isn’t going to accomplish very much. The federales are not going to relinquish a trillion dollar revenue stream because Irwin Schiff says that we don’t really have to pay income tax on wages. There’s almost 90 years of legal precedent that says otherwise.

    And, let’s assume for the sake of argument that the Supers strike down income tax as illegal on those very grounds. How long do you think it will take CONgress to amend the code to make income tax legal? I’d say, a voice vote would take about an hour.

    In as far as taxes are not voluntary, they are immoral. However, our American legal system says that income tax is completely legal.

  9. Tax Deception Video here

  10. I’d say it’s theft without deception. :-)

    As I tell my kids, legal doesn’t always translate to moral and moral isn’t always legal.

    Whether or not this particular tax is legal doesn’t bear on it’s morality.

    If, and I agree that it is, income tax is immoral then so is any other tax that isn’t voluntary and the thing I disagree with is when the tax protest folks make the claim that if only income tax was actually legal they would gladly pay it. That is not a particularly principled stand although it is gutsy. If income tax is immoral, it is immoral whether or not it is legal and they should be no more glad to pay it if legal than if it isn’t legal.

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