Lois Lerner walking dog, ambush interview. Flees to neighbor’s house:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u88vMSbX_xA
More proof that the IRS and the 16th amendment is a violation of the 4th Amendment.
If you owe the IRS, they tack on 8 percent interest and sometimes you don’t know for years. I certainly hope they add some interest to his money. (I know dream on).
And he should push to get it back at that 26% interest rate that they charge if you’re behind on taxes.
He ought to sue them.
The theory apparently being that if you are a drug dealer or laundering money, you’ll let it go; if you file the paperwork and pursue recovery, you might be honest and if you push, a supervisor will look at the file. Or decide it isn’t worth her time or effort. (Doing a Congressional probably doesn’t hurt, either.
A tacit admission that they were going after small businesses that they knew were innocent of any crime.
The big-government/big-union/big-corporate crony-crook complex doesn't care if the pie gets smaller, they just want the whole pie.
How many freepers who venerate every word in the Constitution as some kind of sacred scripture that must be interpreted in an absolute originalist manner venerate the 16th Amendment in the same way?
Anyone?
So it's a crime if you deposit over 10K and a crime if deposit below 10K? What?
Good. There is a case in Maryland of a farmer who has had money seized under the same law. He conducts the nefarious activity of selling meat, bread, and dairy products. Everyone knows how addicting those substances are!
I hope his case is resolved soon, too. He has been fighting it for years.
Specifically, the act requires financial institutions to keep records of cash purchases of negotiable instruments, and file reports of cash purchases of these negotiable instruments of more than $10,000 (daily aggregate amount), and to report suspicious activity that might signify money laundering, tax evasion, or other criminal activities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act
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According to the inflation calculator, $10,000 in 1970 is worth about $1600 today. So the government didn't have to do a thing to increase the scope of the law. Just let inflation do its magic.
Thanks, Drug Warriors.
"The IRS seized this North Carolina man’s life savings."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponents Argument
The problem with the IRSs action is this imo. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention had decided not to give Congress the specific power to regulate INTRAstate banking. This is evidenced by the following excerpt from the writings of Thomas Jefferson.
”A proposition was made to them to authorize Congress to open canals, and an amendatory one to empower them to incorporate. But the whole was rejected, and one of the reasons for rejection urged in debate was, that then they would have a power to erect a bank, which would render the great cities, where there were prejudices and jealousies on the subject, adverse to the reception of the Constitution [emphasis added].” - Jeffersons Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank : 1791.
In fact, given that banks conduct business on the basis of contracts, not commerce (corrections welcome), a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting justices had clarified that Congresss Commerce Clause powers do not extend to regulating contracts, regardless if the parties negotiating the contract are domiciled in different states.
” 4. The issuing of a policy of insurance is not a transaction of commerce within the meaning of the latter of the two clauses, even though the parties be domiciled in different States, but is a simple contract [emphases added] of indemnity against loss.” - Paul v. Virginia, 1869.
Another problem with IRSs actions concerning the citizens bank account is the IRS itself imo. More specifically, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected federal bureaucrats such as those running the EPA and IRS as examples.
In other words, Congress has a constitutional ”monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
The problem is that by delegating banking powers to IRS, powers that Congress actually does not have, corrupt Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the Constitutions Sections 1-3 referenced above.
And reason that Congress is wrongly letting federal officials outside the legislative branch steal legislative powers, including unique, 10th Amendment-protected state legislative powers to regulate banking in this case, is the following imo. Corrupt lawmakers are letting non-legislative branch federal officials steal legislative powers so that these officials can do Congresss dirty, unconstitutional legislative work for it. And by letting such officials do Congresss dirty work for it, lawmakers can keep their voting records clean.
And by keeping their voting records clean, lawmakers are able to fool low-information patriots, patriots that have never been taught about the federal governments constitutionally limited powers, into reelecting these scumbag lawmakers.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach, unconstitutional IRS interference in intrastate banking in this example.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
No, that was a con to sucker the low-information voters (left and right); the plan was always to just take our money.