kinda like saying your credit card records are on a server so you have no expectation of privacy there either... can the states be far behind???
Posted on 03/29/2014 9:06:12 AM PDT by RicocheT
The Disturbing Truth Behind Your Next Income Tax Return By Jeffrey Tucker, Executive Editor, Laissez Faire Books
The least of the problems with income tax is that it takes your money. The really big problem is that the income tax takes your life. It gives the government direct access to the things you own and sets up the political-bureaucratic sector to be the final arbiter of what you can and cannot consider to be yours.
Illustrating this point is the bitter news that the IRS has considered it completely legal to demand access to your email archive whenever it wants. This news came about because of a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union.
The filing unearthed a 2009 memo that stated outright: "The Fourth Amendment does not protect communications held in electronic storage, such as email messages stored on a server, because Internet users do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications."
Forget search warrants and legal processes. In the interest of getting its share, the government can have it all on demand. This assertion was made again in 2010 by the IRS's chief counsel: The "Fourth Amendment does not protect emails stored on a server" and there is "no privacy expectation" on email.
(Excerpt) Read more at bonnerandpartners.com ...
In the coming days there will be encrypted decentralized email for everyone so this will never be a concern.
Sell anything in the internet?
Or buy anything and not pay sales tax to your state? If the feds can get the info, so can the state. FWIW, I always claim a non-taxed amount on my state return - just safer that way. Not worth giving “them” any reason to start nosing around.
kinda like saying your credit card records are on a server so you have no expectation of privacy there either... can the states be far behind???
And will the encryption algorithms all have an NSA mandated back door?
What about receipts for goods purchased without paying sales tax?
All the myriad of govt agencies can get all of our information by snapping their fingers but yet the IRS tells congress it will take “years” to pass on the e-mails of one IRS employee in an investigation into the corruption of the IRS. Something is wrong with this picture. We now have a government of the people for the government, and by the government.
Nope.
I doubt the IRS cares about that.
THE IRS HAS BECOME THE ENFORCEMENT ARM OF CORRUPT DEMOCRAT LIBERAL ELITES...
The IRS is being used to punish Obama's political opponents. That's wrong - and it's against the law.
Given the cookies and adware that build up seemingly innocuously and surely unwittingly over time, you would be surprised to see what is actually on your computer that any gov't hack wanting to set you up could crawl in there and get and use as evidence against you for their purposes -- and in their minds do so without a warrant.
You'll find yourself in the position of needing to prove that your didn't have what the say you have -- and every filing you make to them that says "Under penalty of perjury ... " places you in that uncomfortable position of having to prove your innocence whether you like it or not.
This is not a time for mis-placed self-satisfaction.
FReegards!
Taxes and a Civilized Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYXEwbK1k0&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
ALVIN YORK AND THE IRS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDrBWPI1Ctk&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
This is Invictus innovations http://invictus.io/ which is launching Keyhotee.
Dan Larimer is the core developer and I can say with 100% certainty that there is no mandated back door to Keyhootee.
It’s an important question so I encourage you to ask Dan yourself.
contact.us@invictus-innovations.com
Excellent point. It’s the sort of thing that Rand Paul could be useful in sponsoring in the Senate.
An invasion of privacy works both ways, though. If I think someone is snooping on my e-mail communications then I can give them a lot of interesting things to read. LOL.
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