Just 101 years ago the United States of America was utterly defrauded by its President, Woodrow Wilson, and politicians who established the Federal Reserve and the income tax.
I just spent half a day preparing and filing this year’s required tax forms for Federal and State income tax. Since I file only a “standard deduction,” the time involved is wasteful and uncalled for.
The income tax, the so-called Sixteenth Amendment, was never properly ratified. I have researched this subject in some detail and saved it on this computer. Many states, when they submitted their ratification documents, made changes to the wording of the Sixteenth Amendment, which by law nullified their submission. An individual went to each state involved in “ratifying” the documents and examined them first-hand. He proved that the Sixteenth Amendment was never properly ratified by the required number of states at the time. Therefore, as a consequence, the Federal Income Tax is illegal, and unconstitutional. But as you might have noticed of late, the laws of this nation are selectively enforced. Our current President says he has a pen and the power of his own executive orders to get around a Congress that will not bend to his wishes. Our own government on the Federal level is therefore lawless, and in some matters has been so for a long time. This is not the country our Founding Fathers had in mind. They made every attempt to provide us a limited Federal Government. You will notice that our current Federal Government keeps expanding its authority. Just lately, the misnamed “Affordable Care Act,” popularly called “Obamacare,” has gone beyond perhaps all previous efforts of the Federal Government to expand its role. And notice, please, that the powers that be put the IRS, the Internal Revenue Service, in charge of enforcement.
In the long run, the pen is mightier than the sword. The way to get rid of or overcome bad ideas is to present better ideas. The mind, once presented with a better idea, never returns to its former state.
Today is about the next-to-last date to submit comments about the IRS Proposed Rule: Guidance for Tax-Exempt Social Welfare Organizations on Candidate-Related Political Activities.
Here is the comment I just submitted:
This “rule” is a direct attack on my First Amendment rights of political speech–the right to use political speech, and my right to receive the political speech from others.
My right to stay informed is a necessary requirement for me to make informed choices in the voting booth. Staying informed is a necessary part of properly exercising my rights as a citizen.
The IRS is attempting to interfere with that right.
Any individual, whether politician or government employee, who engages in obstructing my God-given rights as listed in the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution needs to leave this country and live somewhere else compatible with their mistaken views. They most certainly have no business living here!
These proposed regulations are a scam designed to defraud the American people of their right to affect the outcome of future elections by “keeping them in the dark” by not permitting important “grass-roots” organizations such as the American Family Association, the ACLJ, the Campaign for Liberty, and many others from sharing what they know with me at my request.
They are a scam designed to keep information about what my own representatives in Congress, House and Senate, are supporting, out of my hands.
These proposed regulations are motivated by certain elected officials and members of Congress who fear being held accountable to and by the voters.
The IRS has already been caught red-handed, censoring conservative and Christian groups right before an election. These rules are meant to give the IRS authority to act with impunity in this matter of political censorship despite the widespread outcry against this ongoing IRS scandal.
Therefore, the IRS must not be permitted to institute such a regulation or rule as is being proposed.
Just what does this have to do with “The Bible and Politics” or “Justice and the Bible”?
Here is a Bible verse I lately came across that sparked my interest. I greatly expanded the cross references for this verse to make possible a much deeper study of the Bible issues involved. The verse is Proverbs 28:5.
Pro 28:5 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely. (ESV)
Pro 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment; but they that seek Jehovah understand everything. (Darby)
Pro 28:5 Criminals don’t know what justice means, but all who respect the LORD understand it completely. (CEV, Contemporary English Version)
Pro 28:5 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek LORD understand all things. (ACV, A Conservative Version)
Pro 28:5 Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the LORD understand all things. (KJV)
For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:
(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 684 for Proverbs 28:5.
(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 782 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Proverbs 28:5.
(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:
Proverbs 28:5. Evil men. Pr 15:24. 24:1. *Jn 3:19. understand not. +*Pr 14:6. *Pr 24:7. Nu 16:41. 1 K 18:17. *Ps 10:4. *Ps 25:14. 82:5. 92:6. *Jb 21:14. Ps 49:20. 92:6. Is 5:20. *Is 44:18. 56:11. *Je 4:22. Ho 4:14. Mt 13:12. 25:29. Mk 4:10-13. Lk 11:42. 16:14. 18:9-14. *Jn 3:19. 5:44, 47. **Jn 7:17. +*Jn 8:43. *Jn 10:6. **1 Cor 2:14, 15. Ep 4:18. *2 Th 2:10-12. *Ja 1:5. +*1 P 2:8. 2 P 3:5. *1 J 2:20, 27. judgment. or, justice. +Pr 21:3. +*Le 19:15. +*Hab 1:4. +*1 C 2:15. but they. Ps 119:100. that seek. Pr 17:9mg. *Pr 29:26. 2 Ch 14:7. +**Ps 9:10. 97:11. 105:4. +*Ps 119:4, 5, 8, *Ps 119:10, 32, 173. Is 26:9. 55:6. *Je 29:13. Mt 13:12. 25:29. *Jn 6:37. Phil 2:12, 13. *He 11:6. understand all. Pr 1:23. 2:5. +Pr 8:9. +*Pr 14:6. 17:24. Dt 29:29. Jb 32:7-9. *Ps 25:9, 12, 14. +*Ps 51:6. 73:17. 97:11. +**Ps 119:98-100, 104, *Ps 119:130. Je 33:3. Mt 11:25. Lk 7:35. 10:21. 1 Cor 6:2. 2 Cor 4:6. 2 Tim 2:7. +**2 Tim 3:15-17. **1 J 2:20, 27.
Consider the elements of a proper solution:
(1) Enforce with unremitting rigor the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and related laws against all businesses and corporations that have vitiated the law by buying special favors from Congress. What the pharmaceutical companies get away with, and the medical industry (hospitals and everything related to medical care) gets away with is what is bankrupting this country. Put a stop to their raping of our economy immediately, and immediately our debt problems will disappear. Medical costs would drop to where everyone could afford to pay for all but the most extreme medical emergencies out-of-pocket. Medical costs would be what we pay in deductibles now. We would no longer need an “Affordable Care Act” because medical care would truly be affordable once again.
(2) As much as I favor education, and college education, the cost of education has gone up far faster than the rate of inflation, just like medical costs have, because the education business has so much money thrown its direction that it can raise costs far above what they should be. Students who enroll in college now, if they pay for college using so-called student loans, are being damaged permanently. With loans that can not be forgiven by bankruptcy, student debt remains with them practically for most of their adult life. College graduates will be unable to afford a new house because the amount normally required for a monthly mortgage payment will be taken up instead by payment on student debt. If a student is late on paying the debt owed, the interest rate on the debt is raised significantly, further aggravating the problem.
(3) No other country in the world has open borders like we do here in the United States. When states such as Arizona wisely decided to pass their own state laws designed to confront the illegal and criminal immigrant issue, the Federal Government objected. When the Federal Government will not enforce the law, surely the states affected have the right to pass and enforce their own laws. Anyone who arrived here illegally has no right to be here, and no right to stay. We need to enforce a reciprocity rule: if the country you came from will not allow citizens of the United States to enter your country of origin the way you entered our country, then you must go back to your country and arrange to come here legally. Notice it is largely the Democratic Party and the US Chamber of Commerce and local affiliates that favor amnesty for illegal immigrants. The Democrats want the votes, and businesses and corporations want the cheap labor. All this needs to come to an immediate halt. All workers must demonstrate they belong here to get a job. Any employer who hires illegal immigrants must be fined, jailed, and put out of business. Any politician who supports illegal immigration and amnesty in any form must be voted out of office at the next election and never returned to any kind of public office.
(4) Eliminate all free trade agreements. Cancel them all. No agreement should ever be authorized which is unbalanced in its costs and benefits. As it is, we bear the costs, they get the benefits. Take China. We import their products, but they will not give the same privilege to our companies to export to them. This results in (1) a trade imbalance, which adversely affects our economy; (2) exporting our manufacturing jobs where corporations benefit from cheap, actually slave labor; (3) corporations avoid the strict anti-pollution laws we have here and pollute other countries instead. These policies must stop. Bring the manufacturing jobs back to the United States of America, and stop avoiding the Biblical mandate to pay a living wage to your workers (Jeremiah 22:13).
There is much more. But a good first step would be to get rid of the IRS for real. Get rid of the income tax completely. Perhaps a point-of-sale sales tax could be instituted, with a tax rate permanently capped at a workable figure, 20% or less, on all non-food items. Food should not be taxed. Back 101 years ago it was proposed to limit future income tax to 10%. The politicians back then thought such an idea was outrageous, saying the income tax would never get that high. They should have set that limit in stone back then! Look what has happened since. A good second step would be to get rid of the Federal Reserve. President Andrew Jackson was right when he objected to such a system in his day. We need to undo the fraud foisted on this country just 101 years ago in the form of the income tax and the Federal Reserve, which is neither federal nor has it a reserve: it is an unconstitutional banking cartel.