[USMA '71]

We need to have a tax revolt.......quit paying taxes

Nice idea, but the only folks who can quit paying taxes are those who are self-employed. Anyone who works for any type of company has no choice since they never see their tax money in the first place. It is automatically withheld by the employer. The FEDS wiped out the option of NOT paying taxes years ago for times like now.

[Liz]

Unions should be held responsible for their actions---it's time to nail fiduciaries of union pension funds. Pension fund fiduciaries could be held liable for acccepting falsified documents and then failing to do the due diligence. Approving humongous pensions based on falsified illegal information is questionable fiduciary service, and could be prosecutable.

ANALYSIS Can union pension agencies and retirees produce documents that show how they calculated million dollar pensions? Did the union pension agents and pensioneers file all the proper IRS documents? (Stolen money is taxable.)

Oh, never mind the FBI, SEC, IRS, DOJ can find out (/snix).

Filing and accepting false documents and falsified official information for fraudulent purposes incurs felony charges for 1st-degree tampering with public records, 1st-degree offering of a false instrument for filing, 4th-degree grand larceny, and 1st-degree falsifying of official records.

POSSIBLE CHARGES: Official acts prohibited, misuse of govt funds, abuse of public office; misuse of government position; abuse of government power; conflict of interest; influence buying; conspiracy to deceive; misuse of office, collusion, conspiracy to collude; extortion; govt fraud.

Possible federal offenses could include, but are not limited to:

Title 18 U.S.C. §1341, Mail Fraud, Electronic Fraud

18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Government,

18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by the 1974 ERISA

Possible ERISA offenses including civiland/or criminal RICO violations,

18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act),

18 U.S.C. §241 (Conspiracy Against Civil Rights).

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(1) All of the union pension documents need to be scrutinized.

(2) Banks holding monies for the union pension fund need to be examined by outside auditors to determine if the bank was used for fraud.

(3) Politicians' FEC documents need to be exposed to determine whether union pension agents AND pensioneers exchanged campaign contributions in return for pensions benefits.