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While a majority of the public moans and groans
about the high rates of taxation and the fact that soon, it seems,
we will be taxed for the air that we breathe, others claim ‘fraud’
and that we should all just ‘opt out’ and pay no taxes
of any kind at all. The proponents of the later philosophy invoke
comments from the former group such as, ‘we all have to do
our fair share’, and ‘how else would government operate
with no taxes’?
Unfortunately, neither group would be correct in
its position. Both positions are fraught with a lack of understanding.
On the one hand, we have extreme naievete, and on the other hand,
extreme rebellion. Neither one position is absolutely correct, although
those that cry foul are closer to the truth than those who live
in ignorant bliss. Do we have an obligation to pay taxes? Should
we be willing to pay whatever the government asks of us? Do we have
a choice as to what taxes we pay and how much? Which taxes are lawful
(as opposed to ‘legal’)? Are there any? How can we tell?
These are all questions that need to be asked. More
importantly, we need to understand the answers. This article is
the first of a series of articles which will try to help us all
understand the nuances of what would be a moral and just system
of taxation. With this basis of understanding, you will better be
able to detect fraud and abuse when it raises its ugly head. Recognition
is the first step to understanding which, in turn, is the foundation
to reform.
The history of taxation goes back to ancient times.
In Egypt and Greece, taxes played a relatively small role and were
often paid by way of goods and the produce (increase) from the land.
The Roman Empire decreed ‘imposts’ on land along with
some direct taxes. In the Middle Ages there was less of a need for
many of the taxes we now pay, especially in direct taxes on the
people. All income of medieval rulers came primarily from the produce
of their royal estates. Naturally they took great care in tending
to their many plantations and farms.
The fuedal system was one in which the King was
master (owner) over the lands of his kingdom. He would grant a ‘Feifdom’
(grant of land-gift) to one of his subjects. This subject now had
legal title (‘use of’ not allodial/absolute) to the land
which he could sell or bequeath. The ‘use of’ the land
was conditional upon two things: 1) that the subject pledge his
allegiance to his King (and thus his military service, when needed),
and 2) pay the King a fealty, or tithe, (tax) from the produce of
the land, i.e. extracted minerals, crops, livestock, etc.). The
King’s Barons (County Commissioners) were his delegates to
manage these affairs and were the ‘Lords of the Land’
(Landlords).
In the Feifdom, the King, who was ‘Defender
of the Faith’, was the ultimate owner of the property and if
his subject violated one of the conditions of his ‘legal title’
ownership, the subject was ‘divested’ of that ‘conditional
use’ and evicted. The king took back his land. Sound familiar?
More to the point, this system of taxation was correct. It was a
tax on the ‘increase’ and not on the ‘ownership’
or ‘use’. Under this system, when old man Farmer Jones
up and dies, and his wife Mrs. Jones is unable to work the land
and it sits idle, if there is no increase, there is no tax. She
would have no liability unless she also had the ‘produce’
or the ability to pay. They went hand in hand.
In today’s system, it doesn’t matter if
she works the land or not, or whether she has the ability to pay
or not, the ‘use’ tax liability remains, regardless. This
makes it easy for the ‘Lords of the Land’ to force her
to be evicted, as she couldn’t stay on the King’s land
due to the obligation of ‘ownership’ taxes instead of
taxes on the ‘increase’.
This example serves us well in illustrating two
very critical points in a lawful and moral system of taxation. Point
#1... Who imposes the tax? The King who is the true owner
(allodial title)of the property being taxed.
#2...What is the Basis of the Tax? The increase,
or gain derived from the property’s use.
If you derive a benefit from the use of someone
else’s property, they have a right to tax you (charge a
fee) and share in the gain. By now you ought to be thinking to yourself,
"well let’s see, I pay a tax every year on ‘my’
car, ‘my’ home, ‘my’ income, ‘my’
business, etc, etc. What gives?" You’re on the right track.
You’ don’t own any of those things like you ‘think’
you do. You’ve been defrauded out of your common law, ‘allodial
title’ property rights. That’s a subject for another discussion.
You pay a tax on this property because it is not yours and you derive
the benefit of its use. We were told many years ago that "...your
children will grow up homeless in the land that your fathers conquered!"
Let’s examine, for a minute, the roots of our
legal system. It is very difficult to understand anything that is
going on today, in our modern, complex world, without understanding
history and the evolution of true law. To understand why the Tower
is leaning in Pisa, Italy requires a study of its foundation!
Regardless of your own personal spiritual inclinations,
our legal system (and most others around the world) is rooted in
Biblical ‘maxims’ of law otherwise known as the Mosaic
code. Libraries are full of historical documents and treatises that
leave no question about this. With that in mind, let’s go back
to the beginning of the ‘written’ law (Biblical scripture)
as it relates to taxation:
"Ask of Me and I will give thee the nations
for thine inheritance, and the parts of the earth for thy posessions.
Psalms 2:8
Numerous other passages tell us to ‘occupy’
the land until He comes and that we shall have ‘dominion’
over all the things of the earth. The principle here is that our
land and other property are gifts of God, as he created them, for
us to own and possess. Property cannot be taken from the owner without
the owner’s consent. If this were not the case God would
not have given us the Commandment: ‘Thou shalt not steal’.
Such blessings as life, liberty, property and others
have thus become our ‘inalienable’ rights. They are given
to us by God and cannot be authoritatively taken away or infringed
upon by man. The true owner (God) is the only one who has that authority.
God clearly intended that these rights and laws form the foundation
for civil government thus making God the source of human government,
not man. Reference the Abrahamic Covenant promising the blessings
or the curses. Lawful government then, is instituted by man under
these precepts, or maxims, solely for the protection and preservation
of our ‘inalienable’ rights under the authority of the
legal precepts given to us by God.
The natural order of authority is : God, who created
Man, who created State Government , which created Federal Government,
which in turn created administrative ‘bureaus’ to implement
lawful authority which emanates from the top. Each entity in the
former is served by the later and is bound by its predecessor. All
lawful authority starts at the top of this pecking order and trickles
down respectively.
The founding fathers of America took great pains
to structure a government that was a servant to the people and not
a master. They recognized the proper natural order of authority
and they abhorred the Feudal, kingdom/feifdom system. They fought
to win and protect a man’s right to be ‘King’ of
his own castle, to have allodial title to his property, to be master
of his own destiny with the liberty of the sovereign and to answer
to nobody.
If you study American history, the phrase you’ve
heard quoted so often from the Declaration of Independence: "...the
right to persue life, liberty and happiness" was originally
coined by Thomas Jefferson’s words; "...life, liberty
and property." The word ‘happiness’ was substituted
for ‘property’ after much debate. It was decided that
‘happiness’ included property, of course, but it portrayed
a concept that was more inclusive and expansive with a man’s
property rights held as a foundational precept to that idea.. True
property rights held under ‘allodial’ (beholden to no
one) title was a key issue in the formation of our country and our
governmental principals.
What do we see today? Are you ‘King of your
castle’ ?The modern day order of authority is as follows: The
U.N. (a foreign Godless power - 85% of the countries that make up
the U.N. follow Marxist/atheist philosophies) dictates to the U.S.
Federal government via treaties, (the WHO, WTO, NAFTA, GATT, Council
on Bio-Diversity,etc.) which, by virtue of the international bankers
and related puppeteers, has effected a bloodless ‘coup d’etat’
and is now supreme over the states and the people. It then directs
the Federal unelected bureau-rats, who issue ‘mandates’
to the states, who in turn compel and direct the people (man) using
‘compelled performance’ statutes in equity law (which
swallows up your common law birthright). Most importantly, God is
no longer a part of the equation in government or ‘public’
life and has been shoved aside (presumably man has better solutions
now that we are enlightened!). Everything is completely inverse,
adverse and upside down to what it should be, just like the Bible
said the end times would exemplify!
Under any structure, there are only two ways for
us to be ‘alienated’ from our God given, ‘inalienable’
rights (property): either by voluntary waiver, or by theft (by force
or fraud).
What is happening today in America is nothing new.
Where did you hear, ‘there is nothing new under the sun’?
We can see a striking similarity in the annals of history. Let’s
look;
When the Judah kingdom existed around 610 B.C.,
their king was Josiah; "And he did what was right in the sight
of the Lord." (2 Kings 2:22). In an attempt to ward off a threatening
Egyptian Empire from his land, Josiah engaged in battle and was
killed by Pharaoh Necho and his army. The Pharaoh, in his greed
and desire for wealth, wanted to impose a tribute upon the land
of Judah to get the peoples’ gold and silver. This is what
happened according to 2 Kings 23:
34 Then Pharaoh Necho made Eliakim, the son of
Josiah, king in place of his father Josiah, and changed his name
to Jehoiakim.
35 So Jehoiakim gave the silver and gold to Pharaoh;
but he taxed the land to give money according to the commandment
of Pharaoh; he extracted silver and gold from the people of the
land, from everyone according to his taxation (assessment), to give
it to Pharaoh Necho.
What we see here is a takeover of a kingdom (government)
by an external and hostile force. In America, people are beginning
to understand the nature of a similar consipracy against our people
and organic form of government which has been taken over
and controlled by the monied elite such as David Rockefeller’s
Council on Foreign Relations, its sub-group the Trilateral
Commission, the players behind the Federal Reserve and the
IMF (International Monetary Fund).
In the November, 1977 issue of American Opinion
magazine, Gary Allen stated: "The Rockefellers have
manipulated the...policies of every American President since Franklin
Roosevelt; but Mr. Carter has been so obviously a creature of David
Rockefeller that many are no longer willing to deny that there is
a conspiracy involved."
We are being allowed to believe through the controlled
media (which is highly infiltrated with CFR members) that
the people have complete power in choosing our president. But when
we start examining the CFR, the electoral college system, the two
party system which is entirely based on the centralization of power
(through money and media influence), the nationwide incidences of
vote fraud and tampering, a biased media, and the financing of campaigns
(from Communist China, etc.), we start realizing that we do not
have all that much choice in who our president, or who our
elected officials will be. Now, what happened to the Judah kingdom?
They had attempted to choose their own king
after Josiah died, but the Pharaoh dethroned that man and put the
man he wanted as head of the kingdom. Why? Because then that man,
Jehoiakim, would be indebted to Pharaoh and would follow
the dictates and wishes of the Pharaoh fulfilling an obligation
to him or out of fear of him. Jehoiakim would thus be easily
persuaded by the wants of Pharaoh for placing him in a position
of power. It may be hard to realize or understand, mostly because
of the way this is kept from public view by a C.F.R. controlled
media, but this is exactly what is happening in America today.
Now, what did Jehoiakim do when Pharaoh Necho put
him in power? He taxed all the people just as Pharaoh wanted. What
has our government been doing with such perseverence and diligence
since the CFR made connection with Franklin Roosevelt in the thirties?
They have converted all of your common law rights, which you
enjoyed as a matter of tax free and regulation free inheritance,
and converted them all into ‘commercial priveleges’ and
the accompanying regulations which demand ‘permits’, ‘fees’,
‘taxes’ and the like. Your birthright, which was your
property to enjoy, has been ‘stolen’ from you by the conquering
‘king’ and ‘granted’ back to you as a ‘conditional
privelege’ with ‘fees’ (taxes)and conditional use
restrictions attached.
Let’s look at some examples; Your right to
get married is only regulated by your vows to your spouse and the
gift and sanction of God. These are the only parties to the marriage
contract (witnesses included). Now, most people are brainwashed
and feel a need to go the the ‘king’ to get ‘permission’
only after paying a ‘tax’ (license fee). Based
on what we’ve learned so far about the legitimate right to
tax, this would imply that your king now owns your right to get
married. Does this ‘king’ own your inalienable right to
get married? Why do you pay him a tax on this and ask for his permission?
Example #2. You own your home and property (farm),
after all these years, you’ve paid off the bank mortgage and
now it’s finally yours. So why do you still pay the annual
‘rent’ (property taxes) to the king? What happens if you
fail to pay this rent? He evicts you? So let me ask you again, who
really owns (has authority over) this land? Why have you
paid three times the original loan amount on your 30 year mortgage
(participating in ‘usury’ is against Biblical law)? You
obviously don’t ‘own’ this property (even though
you’ve labored for thirty years for it) but merely have ‘conditional
use’ or ‘legal title’. Your ‘allodial’
and ‘unalienable’ rights to your property have been stolen
from you because you clearly don’t have any.
Either we have an unlawful tax here, or someone
stole your property. Either way, you lose. It’s really pretty
simple isn’t it? Fraud is easy to detect once you understand
the Biblical foundation of the true law.
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