TRUTH ATTACK CALLS FOR SUSPENSION OF PERSONAL INCOME TAX
Truth
Attack, a nation-wide organization
of Freedom Movement groups and patriots, whose stated mission is "putting
the government back in its box—one tentacle at a time", announced today
that it has called for Congress to put the water on the fire, not on the
arsonist, by suspending collection and withholding of the personal income tax.
According
to Truth Attack founder and spokesman, Tom Cryer, "Americans are
universally alarmed and angered by the nonchalant manner in which the federal
government has been shoveling out our money—even if it is phony money—to help
big business and the wealthy when it is the families, the real force that
drives our society and our economy, that are the ones who are truly in need of
relief."
Cryer
says that "The current bail-outs and so-called stimulus package are
classic Congressional stupidity. When a
tyrant is starving his people we send grain to the tyrant. Now, we're doing that all over again. What is wrong with that picture?"
Truth
Attack says that if Congress and the president really want to reverse the
melt-down of our economy, then they should get out of the way and let the real
strength of this nation, its people, take care of it. Truth Attack is demanding that Congress
suspend the withholding and collection of the income tax from working American
families, effective immediately.
Truth
Attack cites a number of advantages that would bring about an instant upswing
in the economy:
·
Put the
water on the fire, not on the arsonist.
·
The “cost”
would be interest free and only a small fraction of the hand-outs Congress
is making or proposing to businesses and state and local governments
·
No
additional
·
Stopping
the burdensome "federal rake" off the top of every State’s economy
would release the brakes and allow those economies to blossom as they should
·
Leaving
earnings in the families that earned them will, without any expenditure, inject
funds where they are most needed, permitting many to pay their house notes with
their own money and reducing the foreclosures that are resulting from bad
government policy on red zones and bad judgment on the part of lending firms
and industry
·
Local, state
and national economies would
·
Local and
state tax revenues would SOAR as a result of the economic boom, permitting the
States to operate without federal assistance ("Congressmen do want their
States to be independent, don’t they?" Cryer injects.)
·
Federal
revenues from the scores of other federal taxes would SOAR, recouping much if
not all revenue lost by suspending the imposition of the income tax on working
America
·
Americans
will be able to enjoy the standard of living they have earned and deserve by
exercising their God-given, Constitutionally protected, tax exempt right to
earn a living for themselves and their families
Cryer added that these are crucial times that require Congress to
reexamine the direction it has been leading the country, asking "Where are their priorities? With the people who elected them? With the States they represent? With the nation they are supposed to be
serving? Or somewhere (or worse,
someone) else?"
Truth Attack is a coalition of Freedom Movement organizations, including
tax honesty movement groups, Constitution-oriented groups and a number of
veterans' groups who share an interest in restoring a Constitutionally limited
federal republic. It is determined to
unify the freedom movement, focusing resources on one issue, "one
tentacle", at a time. The first
tentacle is what Truth Attack cites as the biggest fraud perpetrated in the
history of man-kind, what it claims is the illicit application of the income
tax to American citizens and families.
According to Truth Attack and many others, including the United States
Supreme Court, all Americans have a fundamental, Constitutionally protected
right to earn a living through their own labor.
The exercise of a fundamental right is, also according to Truth Attack
and the Supreme Court, Constitutionally exempt from taxation. Cryer points out that "The power to tax
is the power to destroy. If Congress can
tax our rights, it can destroy our rights.
What is next? A tax on going to
church? A tax on free speech?"
Truth Attack also has thousands of members, Truth Troopers, located in
all fifty states. In what Truth Attack
calls "Operation Stop Thief!" Truth Troopers, joined
by thousands from across the spectrum of the Freedom Movement, assembled in
front of more than 700 post offices on April 15 last year, handing out information
to over a half million last minute tax return filers. OST II is scheduled to be repeated this April
15 and Truth Attack hopes to double the number of post offices covered.
Cryer is quick to point out that the ripples, the ill effects of the
income tax, don't stop with the economic crippling of the American family and
the States, "It has been proven beyond any doubt that the burden of the
income tax is directly related to crime rates, divorce rates, frequency of
child abuse and even teen pregnancy rates." Cryer cites a comprehensive study, Income Tax Causes Crime, that
Cryer says "leaves no room for doubt that suspending the illicit application
of the income tax to working American families will relieve the stresses
causing and aggravating those social ills."
"President Obama
claims he wants to help what he calls the 'ordinary' people as well as the
'prominent' people. This is his chance
to prove that he serves both 'classes' of citizens, both the American
aristocracy like the owners of the Federal Reserve and big business and
peasants like the rest of us," Cryer concluded.
Source: Truth
Attack, www.truthattack.org, 4348 Youree Dr.,
Shreveport, LA 71105;