A prominent presidential candidate said, in a recent speech, that the American tax system is “21st Century slavery…the IRS has become the overseer of the American people.” Many called this statement outrageous and absurd. Is this an outrageous statement or and accurate statement?

Find out by reading 21st Century Slavery and learn what the founders thought.

Think calling tax hikes, revenue increases is something new? Think again.

Think taxing our land is a good idea? Our founders didn’t think so. See just how relevant our history is today. 21st Century Slavery equips you with more ammunition to fight against the liberal LIE that the Constitution is a “Living Breathing Document” and proves that we don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Get armed to cast off, as Patrick Henry said, THE BONDS AND CHAINS OF SLAVERY!

• Barak Obama’s answer to our economic woes is – RAISE TAXES!

• Barak Obama’s answer for our alleged health care problems is – RAISE TAXES!

• Barak Obama’s answer for our broken Education system is – RAISE TAXES!

The truth is it’s not about “raising revenue” there are proven ways to do that and the answer is not RAISE TAXES! The TRUTH is – it’s about CONTROL.

Yet a portion of Americans, our neighbors, just accept our tax system as something that’s normal and natural. We need a complete paradigm shift in this nation. We need to wake people up to the reality of our modern tax system. One of the greatest problems in the national psyche today is that we have no frame of reference to fight the current battles. Our history has been stolen!

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Former State Attorney fired for teaching the Constitution to TEA Parties; KrisAnne now travels the country teaching the Constitution and its 700-year historical foundation.

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Solicitation Number: TIRWR-10-Q-00023 Agency: Department of the Treasury
Office: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Location: Field Operations Branch Western (OS:A:P:B:W)

Quotes are solicited under Request For Quotation (RFQ) number TIRWR-10-Q-00023. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; a written RFQ will not be issued. If your company can provide the product listed in the RFQ and comply with all of the RFQ instructions, please respond to this notice.

This requirement is a Small Business Set-Aside and only qualified sellers may submit quotes. NACIS code for this requirement is 332994. The RFQ opens on the date this announcement is posted and closes Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 2:00:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. Response should be emailed or mailed by the closing date to Marc.Feinberg@irs.gov or IRS, 1301 Clay Street, Oakland, CA 94612. FOB Destination shall be Washington DC.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts.

Submit quotes including 11% Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET) and shipping to Washington DC.

The following provisions and clauses in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) apply to this acquisition and include any addenda to the provisions. This solicitation incorporates one or more provisions and clauses by reference with the same force and effect as if they were given in full text: Provisions FAR 52.212-1 Instructions to Offerors—Commercial Items (June 2008); 52.212-3 Offeror Representations and Certifications—Commercial Items (August 2009); Clauses 52.212-4; Contract Terms and Conditions—Commercial Items (March 2009); and 52.212-5 Contract Terms and Conditions Required to Implement Statutes or Executive Orders—Commercial Items (December 2009). The full text of a FAR clause may be accessed electronically at http://www.acqnet.gov.

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This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Items. The government will award a commercial item purchase order to the offeror with the most advantageous offer to the government. All offerors must submit their best price and delivery capabilities.

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By Pamela Gorman
Majority Whip, Arizona State Senate

Early in my career, a friend warned me about entering battle alongside a colleague, describing him as a “chocolate soldier.”  “Chocolate soldiers say all the right things and look formidable entering the battlefield,” he explained.  “Problem is that they melt in the heat.”  As we confront the nation’s largest budget deficit in Arizona, I understand what he meant.

Today, as we find ourselves in the worst economic downturn in state history, people are worried.  I’m worried too.  We’re faced with the reality that government has created a dependent class of people.

Conservatives who want to see government spending cut –- rather than taxes increased –- must do more than speak up, they must stand strong.

That growing class has become accustomed to receiving ever increasing amounts of taxpayer dollars, regardless of the taxpayers’ ability to pay.  The entitlement class is scared, motivated, and loud.  And, they have a lot of time on their hands while most of us are at work.

Like families across the state, government has to live within its means.  It should be simple for those of us who believe that government has grown too big and spends too much of other people’s money.  Still, it’s not easy to deliver the bad news to those who are dependent upon taxpayers.  It’s like telling Fat Albert he’s got to go on a diet.  No one wants to deliver the message, but deep down you know it might save Fat Albert’s life.  We are making difficult, but responsible choices – choices that honestly can some days break your heart.  But, that’s what we were elected to do.

Many of us have been very open about our conservative beliefs and we’ve made statements about them in public forums, on candidate questionnaires, in editorial board meetings and in our campaign brochures.  We campaigned on reducing the size of government and cutting taxes.  And we lamented the irresponsible expansion of government spending under Governor Janet Napolitano that has now come home to roost.  Many of us took it further.  We promised –- in writing –- to the people of Arizona that we would oppose any and all efforts to raise taxes.

Governor Jan Brewer, who succeeded Napolitano after she was appointed Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security earlier this year, made that same written anti-tax promise on June 10, 2006.  She promised the taxpayers and all the people of the state that she would “oppose any and all efforts to increase taxes.”  Yet, a few weeks after being exposed to “the heat” of our budget crisis, Governor Brewer was “melting” like so many chocolate soldiers before her. She threatened to veto any budget plan that didn’t include her $3 billion tax increase in her very first speech to the legislature.

A wise man once said that adversity doesn’t build character, it reveals it.  I believe that Governor Brewer is a person of character.  Unfortunately, she may be the victim of bad counsel.  Frankly, if I had advisers that would suggest I a) break my promise to the people, b) abandon my stellar record of supporting lower taxes, and 3) crush the already floundering economy with the largest tax increase in Arizona history, I’d find new advisers.

When government cuts taxes, jobs are created –- jobs that help the single mom go from unemployed to employed, jobs that help the working poor step up into the middle-class, and jobs that help the middle class start to save for retirement and their children’s education.  When taxes are increased, we see the opposite effect.  This effect is magnified during an economic downturn, so raising taxes now is simply dangerous and misguided.  And make no mistake, this tax increase is to be applied directly on Arizona working families and employers, who are the very producers that we need to pull us out of this economic malaise.

I am worried that the heat being applied by the entitlement class is melting the chocolate resolve of self-identified conservatives who are forgetting the interests of this struggling producer class.  The producer class voted for an army of conservative soldiers to keep taxes down, limit the size of government and protect their individual liberty.  They are counting on our conservative soldiers now, when the heat is on.  Conservatives who want to see government spending cut –- rather than taxes increased –- must do more than speak up, they must stand strong.  Now is no  time to discover we elected an army of chocolate soldiers!

Senator Pamela Gorman represents Arizona’s 6th district and is currently serving as Majority Whip.  Comments can be sent to pgorman@azleg.gov. ]]> http://non-socialist.com/2009/05/pamela-gorman-the-tax-battle-in-arizona-%e2%80%94-a-report-from-the-frontlines/feed/ 0 http://non-socialist.com/2008/10/irs-undercover-operations-privacy-invasion/ http://non-socialist.com/2008/10/irs-undercover-operations-privacy-invasion/#comments Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:10:17 +0000 thor http://non-socialist.com/?p=46 The bailout bill also gives the Internal Revenue Service new authority to conduct undercover operations. It would immunize the IRS from a passel of federal laws, including permitting IRS agents to run businesses for an extended sting operation, to open their own personal bank accounts with U.S. tax dollars, and so on. (Think IRS agents posing as accountants or tax preparers and saying, “I’m not sure if that deduction is entirely legal, but it’ll save you $1,000. Want to take it?”) That section had expired as of January 1, 2008, and would now be renewed.

Starting with the so-called Anti-Drug Abuse Act in 1988, the IRS has possessed this authority temporarily, with occasional multiple-year lapses. A 1999 internal report said the IRS had 126 “trained undercover agents” working in field offices at the time. This is the first time that such undercover authority would be made permanent.

Sens. Max Baucus (D) and Chuck Grassley (R) have been pushing to make it permanent for a while, claiming (PDF) in April that: “Undercover operations are an integral part of IRS efforts to detect and prove noncompliance. The temporary status of this provision creates uncertainty, as the IRS plans its undercover efforts from year to year.”

There’s another section of the bailout bill worth noting. It lets the IRS give information from individual tax returns to any federal law enforcement agency investigating suspected “terrorist” activity, which can, in turn, share it with local and state police. Intelligence agencies such as the CIA and the National Security Agency can also receive that information.

The information that can be shared includes “a taxpayer’s identity, the nature, source, or amount of his income, payments, receipts, deductions, exemptions, credits, assets, liabilities, net worth, tax liability, tax withheld, deficiencies, overassessments, or tax payments, whether the taxpayer’s return was, is being, or will be examined or subject to other investigation or processing, or any other data received by, recorded by, prepared by, furnished to, or collected by the Secretary with respect to a return.”

That provision had already existed in federal law and automatically expired on January 1, 2008.

What’s a little odd is that there’s been little to no discussion of the IRS sections of the bailout bill, even though they raise privacy concerns. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said this week: “I will continue to work with congressional leaders to find a way forward to pass a comprehensive plan to stabilize our financial system and protect the American people by limiting the prospects of further deterioration in our economy.” He never mentioned the necessity of additional IRS undercover operations.