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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 12:04:50 -0800
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Earned Income Tax Credit [sic]
To: Multiple recipients of list AZRKBA <AZRKBA@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU>
At 10:22 AM 11/27/96 -0800, you wrote:
>>If you are getting a refund, you are paying
>>taxes, because they were withheld from your
>>pay check, and you "overpaid."
>
>Not necessarily. You are obviously unfamiliar with the E.I.T.C., the Earned
>Income tax Credit!
You are right, I am unfamiliar
with the EITC, because the entire
income tax scheme is fraudulent,
from stem to stern. For proof,
see IRC 7851(a)(6)(A). Title 26
has never been enacted into positive
law, so this provision controls,
nullifying all of subtitle F
(Procedure and Administration,
which is the place where ALL the
enforcement provisions are found.
/s/ Paul Mitchell
>
>>
>>When I ask people how much they paid in
>>federal incomes taxes last year, one of the
>>most frustrating answers is, "Oh, I didn't
>>pay anything; I got money back."
>
>Chances are, they were not wrong.
>
>>Now, ask yourself who got the money that was
>>withheld. Do you know the answer? And how
>>was that money spent? Do you know the answer?
>
>As I recall, the EITC was started by Jimmy Carter and amounted to about $75
>which was just simply credited to every tax payer "to get the economy
>moving". This meant that people who were low enough in income to get back
>all they paid in could actually get back $75 *more* than they paid in.
>
>Since then successive regimes have upped the amount of the credit to (I
>think) around $2500. Yes, this means that people who paid no net income
>taxes are actually receiving "refunds" of up to $2500. It's supposed to
>help "the working poor". It's been a real boon because no new laws have to
>be passed for this massive transfer of money from workers to the leisure
>class, just a little adjustment of the tax code.
>
>It's also one of the biggest sources of fraud in the system with hustlers
>rounding up street people, getting them to file fraudulent tax returns
>claiming the EITC and then taking the lion's share of the refund. The
>"taxpayer" gets to keep a portion of the loot for signing the fraudulent
>return. What with electronic filing and "Instant Refunds" from H&R Block,
>they're spending the "refund" just hours after filing the phony return.
>The Eternal Revenue Service Does nothing to stop this because it might
>"hurt the poor".
>
>>The depth of our ignorance is shocking at times.
>
>Gosh, Paul, I *really* hope that this wasn't directed at me, given the
>particulars...
>
>>
>>/s/ Paul Mitchell
>>
>>
>>
>>At 06:49 AM 11/27/96 -0700, you wrote:
>>>>When people think of taxes, they think of income tax. Lots of folks "don't
>>>>pay any taxes", that is, they don't pay income tax and may even get a
>>>>"refund" of taxes they didn't pay.
>>
>>Objection. See above.
>>
>>
>> They know that there are sales taxes but
>>>>are so accustomed to them that they give them no thought. $0.185 per
>>>>gallon federal tax on gasoline? Hidden in the pump price.
>>
>>Not hidden. It's written on
>>most gas pumps now.
>>
>>
>> They don't
>>>>realize how much the taxes on everything from telephone service to cable TV
>>>>and airline tickets add up.
>>>
>>>In the land of "double coupons" and "instant rebates..." well, I guess we
>>>shouldn't be surprised.
>>>
>>>
>>>>All it takes to be sustainable at these exorbitant tax rates is a lot of
>>>>ignorant people and a sizeable constituency of persons who receive more
>>>>than they pay in. We've got that already.
>>>
>>>Yup.
>>>
>>>Proposal for a new law: we should all get to write one check per year for
>>>our individual share of the tax burden. _No_ governmental entity may
>>>collect anything for any reason except that it comes thru that one payment.
>>>
>>>Ole Joe Sixpack will truly come off'n his couch when he realizes the _true_
>>>cost of government.
>>>
>>>
>>
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