Do you know what the difference is between the government currently stealing your grandparents’ and parents’ and your money through the Social Security program and the government stealing, in the future, your money from your 401(k) or other retirement program? The difference is that your grandparents didn’t have a 401(k) account to steal from. Consequently, government stole from the Social Security Trust Fund because, repeat after me, “That’s where the money was.” That’s why they made us pay into the Social Security fund, so they would have a big pile of money to steal. Soon they will steal from your “other” retirement accounts because, say it again, THAT’S WHERE THE MONEY IS! And that’s what government does.
You see, government stealing your money on payday (Social Security) differs not a whit morally from government stealing your money later, as in the sum of your current retirement accounts. So a government that HAS STOLEN FROM THE PEOPLE and IS STEALING FROM THE PEOPLE can be certainly counted on, in the future, TO STEAL FROM THE PEOPLE. But most people are naive- or inculcated by government schooling- so they refuse to believe that stealing by government is stealing. If you’re not too naive for that, be aware that your retirement money- all of your retirement money in any form- is in jeopardy of theft by government.
Whaaaaat, Donald? You haven’t seen the dollar $ signs in those Chem trails? Hmm? Our taxes are probably even funding that total lunacy.
I remember looking at my pay stub years ago — and my husband’s. What we could have done with those dollars then, raising our kids. So now I get to collect the $’s we paid into the “fund”. Entitlement? Damn straight, we are all entitled to what we paid in, but only “if” we in fact did pay into it. And of course there is the RMD — conveniently set up so we get to pay tax on what we’ve already paid tax on.
The SoSec fund however as you know has been sabotaged in many ways, by the “generosity” of our politicians, and now probably paying first-class airfare for illegal immigrants.
Government created SS as just another way to introduce chaos into society and get us all at each other's throats while it eyed up our a$$e$ for a screwing.
Don't forget Greyhound, Windmills, Solar Panels, Kroger, and Fanny May. All subsidized and paid for courtesy of taxes and the Federal Reserve Printing Press... er... keyboard. And my guess is that the latter is paying the bulk at this point. A trillion here, a trillion there. Soon you're talking some REAL MONEY.
Instead of being sneaky about it, I wish they’d just name their price and send one of their goons around each month for their envelope. If they’re going to be a mafia and shake us down all the time, they could at least be honest about it.
Exactly, Obsolete. At least you knew where you stood with the mob. And they had some twisted principles, while our government has no principles. Thanks.
Over here in México, we have to pay an entity when we do specific things, and it’s very straightforward and reasonable. The entity maintains order as well. A parallel government, so to speak. Less corrupt than the official monopoly.
About Abe Lincoln, I believe that he was a crazed syphilitic. You know that he took those mercury pills for some reason. Both he and Mary Todd were known for going absolute Bat Shit Crazy.
The Tea tax, There is an alternate, very plausible story about what the "Tea Party" was really about.
Long story, but should you want to know, I'd be happy to share it.
Gordon Kahl was burned to death if I remember correctly.
Now about the state of my personal wealth, In the Reagan years I was solidly middle class.
By the time Clinton left office, I was lower middle class.
By the time Obama left office, I was upper / lower class.
By the time Trump left office I was solid lower class. My only income being SS.
Back in the '70's, I had two paper routes and could afford to eat at McDonalds twice a week, and pay for my tuition.
In the '80's, I worked at the Steakhouse and paid for college tuition, which was $895 a semester, and bought my parents a lawn mower- which I used- I was the one who cut the grass and some appliances when they were short on cash.
In the '90's, I worked for the church and was able to put gas in my car and go on a road trip four times a year.
After the economic collapse I lost my job, my home, my car, and was reduced to eating beans three times a week.
After the Great Shrinkflation of 2019, beef has become a luxury.
Today, chicken is in danger of becoming a luxury. Fortunately I can get eggs for 85 cents a dozen. (They are greenish brown and very tasty. I am not going to ask if they are chickens.)
If this trend continues, by Christmas 2025 I expect to subsisting on roots and berries.
Not the way it's supposed to be, WW. Very sad. I will be having part 2 of the same thing we explored last week on my podcast. More people who are senselessly struggling financially, and no one in power cares. Thanks.
I just gotta ask. You say no one in power cares. But do they not care, or are they pleased with these continuing declines? Are they JUST looting us, or is destruction of America a policy?
Good distinction, Mike. I should elaborated by saying they don't care about how this all impacts others. They are doing just fine, and their children's futures are set. They know what side their bread is buttered on. Thanks!
From someone who has been actually growing tubers and berries for a few years now, I can assure you that it isn't anywhere near as bad as some may think. I grow close to a dozen different types of tubers and tuberous roots, and probably half a dozen different berries in my yard. They are not only incredibly easy to grow, but taste fantastic! My grocery bill is much lower now than it ever was before inflation started to get real. The vast majority of what I grow is considered "invasive" by the government which is why they're so easy to grow. Some of what is being grown is also considered to be a "super food" which is essential when supply lines break down or food becomes too expensive to buy.
I do agree that a diet of roots and berries is not really all that bad. I am curious which are the "invasive" tubers you grow. I definitely have to try that- or look for them in the wild.
The best is dioscorea alata aka "The Wild Winged Yam." If you live in Florida, they're considered a nuisance. Sometimes you can find them on Amazon or ebay, etsy etc. They're in the kudzu family. There are seven varieties, but only this one is edible and is identified by the vine which grows from left to right. All others grow from right to left. I had one growing outside my back porch last year. It was up on the roof, but then suddenly crept back down and into my porch in a matter of hours. They can grow up to six inches in a day. They can grow a good ten pound tuber in a year. The record for the largest is somewhere around 150 to 200 lbs.
Grocery stores like Save a lot, Publix, etc. have name yams and Malanga blanca, or Malanga lila. The Malanga varieties have foliage that look identical to Elephant ears. These are all excellent for the "stealth gardener" who doesn't want the neighbors eating up his garden.
I hit the local farmer's markets or the organic section of the health food stores, even Walmart if necessary to get any kind of sweet potato they have to grow slips for the leaves as well as the tubers. They're in the same family as morning glories so the flowers are also awesome.
Cassava (aka yuca), Jerusalem artichokes (not from Jerusalem, but taste kind of like an artichoke), and mint potatoes can all be found on Amazon or ebay as well.
You can leave these things in the ground for years until you need them, but I've gotten into the habit of just eating them whenever because I'm too lazy to go to the store anymore. I'm growing everything in poor sandy soil so they're easy to grow and easy to harvest as well.
When Gordon Kahl's body was recovered, his hands and feet were cut off and missing. What darling little satanists those federal murderers are. They were probably used in some Freemasonic, black magic ritual.
Most notably, it was the fact that our beloved founders were in direct competition with the crown to sell tea and the British government was selling it too cheaply for the competition to make any money. Taxes were low and going lower, but good luck finding that in any history books today.
You speak the truth, but many of us already well know it, are are far, far deeper down the rabbit hole of truth discovery about our country, and well past sick and angry of this.
There is so much to be outraged about. My complain is trivial, but I could happily punch a bureaucrat in the face. I take an IRA Distribution in Q4, and I don't know what it is until December. The communist at IRS and VA insist that I magically know in Q1 what my annual distribution will be, and thus want me to perfectly pay a quarter of the tax each quarter. Don't get me started on the how the tax folks define a quarter! (Q2 is 2 months and Q4 is 4 months.) So I get penalized for making a low Q1 payment for my Q4 distribution, plus interest! Patently unfair and outrageous. I always overpay, but somehow it's OK for them to take months to give me my refund, and without interest! It's all a pure money grab, no sensibility. Makes me wonder if communism would make it much simpler. (sarcasm)
Tucker Carlson has made somewhat the same point, Tommy. If our form of capitalism can't offer anything better than the mess we see currently, then why would young people opt for it over socialism? Over a guaranteed basic income? Thanks.
I stopped filing in 1979. I still get social security. If you want your eyes opened then you will have to read Title 26 US Internal Revenue Code until you understand it. Not that hard when you have the key to the code, but you will have to devote some time to it.
Seek the truth as the truth will set you free!
I put out a Word document, written years ago, that walks you through the code showing you the main points that an individual needs to know. I can email it to you free of charge if you are interested.
You can do a search for The Great IRS Hoax online and probably learn the same.
My document is only about 22 pages long, a half hour read, assuming the person reading can. Who knows these days. I admit that I get a little brash in the document.
For those that want the key to the code here it is: draw a circle, inside the circle write the word included, outside the circle write these words: automatically excluded. Understand that that which is not included is automatically excluded.
Also note that part 2 of the code, non-corporation, regarding individuals, is titled as The Public Salary Tax Act of 1939. It only applies to federal public servants salaries, not to the private sector. A "taxpayer" is defined as being someone who is subject to the code, not someone who pays taxes. Who is that? Federal public employees!
It is war by deception! The tax code, when understood, proves that they are not your government.
As someone who has prepared taxes for the past 15 years, I agree that the tax code has become a dysfunctional system. Note, married filing separately is the least advantageous way to file your return, and in fact, if you file separately while one spouse is collecting SS, you lose your base altogether. They've got it all figured out. The changes in the tax code, especially since Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act really screwed people who work in sales, and employees who pay for their own expenses. Every year - sometimes in the middle of the season - Congress will make changes where now you have to go back and file amended returns for your clients. More work. Taxing SS is insane, but that's what the MFers wanted under Reagan. I DO see a lot of interesting issues in my tax clients. One of them is that there is a lot of inheritance and that is - for the most part - tax free. So many have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from relatives - some as distant as 3rd cousins they've never met - and this is truly found money. I need to get me one of those there third distant cousins. And right away! I also see a lot of misery and over the past 15 years, I've seen an increase in the number of children who are sick as hell - autism, allergies, asthma, Tourette's, emotional issues, skin conditions, seizures, and cancer out the wazoo. Most senior clients are on a regimen of dozens of pharma drugs and they are proud of it! Anyway, thanks for this post. It should be shared widely.
Even TurboTax has the procedure... You get your W-2 you correct it with form 4852 by putting 0 for income you list the deductions you transpose this information on to your 1040. There is a space to make a comment you can see what that is at www.losthorizons.com (you're going to have to put it in the browser yourself sub stack has blocked access to that link that's a tell by the way)
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"The power to tax is the power to destroy" - John Marshall. The 14th Amendment was never properly ratified but all courts take "Judicial Notice" that it was. When a court takes Judicial Notice of something, it is construed as established fact and no more may be said about it unless you want a Contempt of Court charge. Compensation for labor is not income. Income is gain. The remuneration one receives for working is not gain. You are giving your time, energy, and life for it, so the one cancels out or negates the other. Gain is making money off of money. If you have $1,000 and invest it obtaining a 10% increase or $1,100 after a year, that $100 you made on top of your grand is gain and thus lawfully taxable. This is real law, logic, and precedent. Naturally, that's why it is ignored. Prior to the enactment of the 16th Amendment for income taxes in 1913, the U.S. had all essential services up and running, the same ones the income tax proponents say we need taxes for. They are liars, idiots, or both. The income tax system was created to control, oppress, and impoverish the populace. The System can print (or make computer entries) for whatever money is needed to pay for any project or service. The whole thing is a monstrous, criminal scam. It is worth noting that the two most vicious adjuncts of the legal industry, wherein any semblance of both procedural and substantive due process rights are routinely trampled, are the Family Courts and the IRS. What is most sickening is when the lying, weasel politicians bray like jackasses in a pepper patch about "Tax Reform". There has never been a tax reform in the history of the U.S. whereby after the dust settled, the people wound up paying less taxes. It is always more, unless of course you are of the ruling class. Lest anyone thinks they really own their home after their mortgage is paid off, try cease paying the extortionate property taxes and you'll see who owns it real quick. The reality is, we are serfs on Big Brother's plantation of perversity and miscegenation. Very concise, biting, and timely piece, Don, thank you.
Thank you, Don. A long time ago, I knew an old timer, now long deceased, who worked as a young man in the aircraft industry. He said one morning at work the foreman called everyone together for a meeting. The foreman said: "I want you men to know this is the end of America. When the government can take money from your pay before before you even see it, it's game over. It's not much now but someday we'll be left with a pittance." This of course was when the IRS commenced tax withholding. "Should five percent appear too small (what you get), be thankful I don't take it all." - "Taxman" by the Beatles. Many years ago the commissioner of the IRS, I think his name was Roscoe Egger, said in a speech at his retirement dinner, "If the American people ever wake up to the fact that the IRS operates 95% on bluff, the whole system will collapse overnight." Be well, my friend.
After ALL the money the government steals, how can they be so broke? We're nothing more than bank accounts for these murderous thieves. I agree, they need a full audit by someone independent, but there is no one who wants to lose their life who'll take on that big job. Wisconsin doesn't tax Social Security, but I did my own forms this year and what a nightmare. Fill out this form to complete that form. And another form to explain an amount on the main tax form. Its a disaster to even try and figure out what to do from their lousy manuals. I've read thru what I needed to know and kept asking myself, what they hell are they trying to say? I completed my Federal form incorrectly last year, thanks to my own stupidity, but the Feds sure fixed that up. So this year, I got some advice from a friend. Its all one non-funny joke! Every time I think of taxes, I can see JoTato whispering that we all "need to pay our fair share". Really? Little sonny boy Hunter hasn't paid his, and he owes Millions! We have no say in too much, unless we want to end up in prison without being able to use a lawyer. That is, one who'll have the cajones to take on your case. A woman I work with said I should run for office. I told her my life would probably last one week. Good evaluation, Don. I never expect any less from you!
Wake up, Americans! This is WHY they want all these Illegal Invaders here. They have No Loyalty and will do as told. Too bad they are not wise to the fact that their heads will be next on the chopping block. If this country burns to the ground, well, maybe that is what needs to happen. Some things are not fixable. Whatever it takes to force the rats off the ship!
Fran: My wife and I decided years ago to pay our Tax Lady her fees ($500 this year) to do our taxes. It saves us a lot of headaches. I collect the tax data that comes in the mail and send it to the Tax Lady in late March. She sends back our completed forms and what we owe. We send off the checks and sign her forms. She e-files our tax returns with California and DC.
It's the price of Serfdom in the USA. "Land of Liberty" my ass!
I called someone to do my taxes, but for $229? I don't think so! Its not really hard, seeing I only have the write-off of property taxes (and all the other useless "freebies" you think they are gifting you). This Social Security is bullshit, IMO. Double taxing us. We never receive everything we put in over the years. Now they claim its broken? Really? Where is MY MONEY? They'll work on stealing our IRAs and 401(k)s next. Makes me extremely unhappy, if you get my drift. Most sheep plod along, crying, What can you do? Well, even if a couple million of us started to fight back really hard, it could make a difference. Before they wipe us all out, as their intended plans. These people are snakes, worse than what God even warned us about.
I wouldn't trust AARP to wipe my behind. I may as well go to the dummies at HR Block. I do my own forms and if I eff them up, then as paid employees, they should explain to me. I live in Wisconsin, you know, one of the Blue States where its thick as thieves here. I went to Office Depot to make my copies, and the extremely Nice Man there didn't even charge me. Oops, maybe I better put that on my tax forms! LOL
Why are we doing them anyways? They DO have ALL the records! Makes me so angry and then you look at the Biden family as one of the many and they get away with so much! Makes me sick!
Yep! I had one CPA do mine one year and he claimed that I owed the State of Wisconsin! I said, How is that? I claim 0 on my W-2 so I can get the chicken droppings at the end of the year. Oops! Like anything else, you really got baby-sit people or they'll rip you off, or are just plain stupid. Is anyone Competent to do their jobs anymore? To be Honest? To be Careful?
If you don't have Federal privilege when you get your W-2 you simply use form 4852 to correct income to zero you list all of your $ that were withheld. You transpose that to your 1040 and mail it in I've done it I have over two decades worth in and I got letters back from California and the IRS in my favor this is not fantasy thanks for the nice comment! I'm so used to getting attacked.
You should do a Podcast and and explain via using actual forms. I'd sure as hec would like to know. At my age, I do not want to end up in Prison. Not after all the agony I've (and the rest of the good Citizens) been thru!
BTW - many years ago, in the 1980s, I worked with a fella that told me it was illegal to pay taxes. The boss told him to be quiet so I didn't end up in Prison. That person I worked with was Correct! I've heard this from others as well. We do not BOW to the Feds!
A few years ago, I received a letter from the IRS informing me that I needed to submit a worksheet, schedule D or something like that. I felt like I was having a flashback to the third grade. They were asking me to show my work. They've got the same information I have, and they've done the calculations so why do I have to go through this nonsense as well? I asked them to please send me a copy of my return. They said they lost it.
Are you kidding me? They don't lose a thing, everything they "should" be doing is electronic. They know every time you flush the toilet, so I'm calling BS on their excuse! I always makes copies of my forms. When I screwed up my form last year, they didn't even explain what I did wrong, just sent me a check for a lot less than I calculated. ROBBER BARONS! Many of them IRS thieves know less about the tax forms than we do!
I wish I was kidding. They also sent me a very threatening and extensive explanation of all the fees, penalties, fines etc. that I would be incurring if I didn't submit that worksheet immediately. I tossed it all in the trash. I didn't make any money. I actually ended up losing money and was doing one of those loss carry overs from a few years earlier. I think the best option is going to be to just leave the country and forget all about the IRS completely.
You could reach out Steve Lehto. He has a YT channel and appears to be pretty knowledgeable. I had the Feds come after me for $14.76, interest on my checking account, so I had to include that with my taxes last year, and of course, with the flipping correct form. My older sister said they wanted payback for something I think was under $1.00. Can you believe that??? Feds gotta go!
There are two types of people in the world, those who produce more than they consume and save the rest, and those who don't produce anything, but live off those who do. We call that second group either predators or parasites. They produce nothing (like all government jobs, welfare recipients, and others who don't report income).
Don't get me wrong. All taxation is theft because everything the government does is immoral, illegal, illegitimate, and unconstitutional. Everything. There are only 18 enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8 of the long ago defunct Constitution. But 99% of what happens in D.C. is outside Article I, Section 8 even if you say it exists.
Regardless, we have makers and takers (producers/predators and parasites). Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything. So the entire government, which used to be less than 18% of the GDP (all fraudulent because of the way it is calculated, just like the CPI and the unemployment) is now well over 40% of the fake GDP because every single job could be and should be eliminated because they are all unconstitutional.
We do not live in a representative republic. We live under what I call "Participatory Fascism". It is a combination of communism, socialism, corporatism, and fascism (along with any other -isms you might have. It's as Totalitarian as you can have. The markets are not free and fair. Neither are you. It's a total clusterbungle. Banksters, thugs, oligarchs, kleptocrats, and the ruling elite run this criminal cabal. It is not a government. It is organized crime.
I could go on forever. We need to fix the money and when we do we fix the world. Fake fiat counterfeited US$ printed out of thin air goes mostly to the banksters, corporatists, military, intelligence organizations and Wall Street thugs. They all produce nothing and have 90% of the wealth of the country. This is really really messed up when you explain it how it really is. All this illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional activity produces nothing but empire building, warmongering, extorting, killing, maiming, lying, cheating, and stealing worldwide. It enslaves the world to the fake fiat US$ and exports (or used to) most of the inflation because of Bretton Woods.
It is all failing. We haven't won a war since WWII and Russia won that. We were on the winning side. Otherwise we have lost every single conflict we initiated with our aggression / regime changes.
That all said. There is a solution. There is only one solution. Fix the money. Fix the world. To do that we need to opt out of this authoritarian mobster rule. Bitcoin is the solution. It brings Peace, Truth, Freedom, Hope, and Abundance for all where fake fiat money brings wars, lies, slavery, poverty, and inequality. People can scoff. But Bitcoin is already winning. It will eventually consume all the $900 Trillion in worldwide debt, all the wealth, and all the fake fiat money. It has already consumed over a Trillion dollars and is the 8th largest monetary asset in the world. In a year or two it will consume Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Saudi Aramco and have only Gold at $14.5 Trillion ahead of it, which it will consume in a few years. It gets stronger the more it consumes.
You probably don't understand it because 99.9% of the world doesn't. Check out Bitcoin Twitter (X). Learn it. Study it. Love it. Bitcoin is something to look forward to in the near future as it destroys nation states and their fake Ponzi money. #BitcoinFixesTheWorld
Just for the record, the "Stamp Act" was not a tax on stamps. Rather it was a stamp on paper products. Any paper products that did not have the stamp were illegal. It's something like stipulating that you can only buy lumber for Lowes, even if Hope Despot has a cheaper price.
Meanwhile, taxing social security is beyond the beyond. When I used to get my paychecks, the income tax (local, state, and Federal- I had the fun privilege of living in a place where all three layers got their cut) was on the whole whopping gross income. AND THEN the "Social Security" was deducted- so Granny would not starve, I was told. So that "Social Security" was already taxed. (I don't really see how that is "income" seeing as I already worked for that dough. But hey, what are words in a society where you can identify as a cat? I am just an antiquated Medieval chauvinist swine, I suppose.)
Of course, I never expect to see a nickel of my "social security" (I lost my card and cannot remember my number.)
I just plan to garden until the chemtrails kill everything. And by the looks at the grass and garlic this year, that might be sooner than later.
Excellent rant, Don. Spot on. I agree with every word.
The point of "taxes" (actually, armed robbery of the peasantry by our neo-feudal lords) is strictly subjugation of the masses. Impoverishment and humiliation are wonderful tools for keeping the proles in line. Yes, we are all in an abusive relationship with a psychopathic spouse and there appears to be not opt out...
Having just completed 75 trips around the sun, this old boy is still slogging away as a "1099" employee since the Social Security payments that were taken from me over my lifetime will not begin to cover household needs... And, so it goes... Thankful to be able to physically and mentally still see patients productively...
PS: Social Security and Medicare are Welfare Payments. FICA taxes go straight into the General Fund and are spent immediately by the government.
My wife and I had to write checks to DC and Sacramento this year. We are retired and live off of meager SS payments and some investment income. It's pathetic. And don't get me going on the property taxes. We get NOTHING for those.
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Do you know what the difference is between the government currently stealing your grandparents’ and parents’ and your money through the Social Security program and the government stealing, in the future, your money from your 401(k) or other retirement program? The difference is that your grandparents didn’t have a 401(k) account to steal from. Consequently, government stole from the Social Security Trust Fund because, repeat after me, “That’s where the money was.” That’s why they made us pay into the Social Security fund, so they would have a big pile of money to steal. Soon they will steal from your “other” retirement accounts because, say it again, THAT’S WHERE THE MONEY IS! And that’s what government does.
You see, government stealing your money on payday (Social Security) differs not a whit morally from government stealing your money later, as in the sum of your current retirement accounts. So a government that HAS STOLEN FROM THE PEOPLE and IS STEALING FROM THE PEOPLE can be certainly counted on, in the future, TO STEAL FROM THE PEOPLE. But most people are naive- or inculcated by government schooling- so they refuse to believe that stealing by government is stealing. If you’re not too naive for that, be aware that your retirement money- all of your retirement money in any form- is in jeopardy of theft by government.
I agree, Mike. It's all theft. Thanks.
Thank you, sir.
Whaaaaat, Donald? You haven’t seen the dollar $ signs in those Chem trails? Hmm? Our taxes are probably even funding that total lunacy.
I remember looking at my pay stub years ago — and my husband’s. What we could have done with those dollars then, raising our kids. So now I get to collect the $’s we paid into the “fund”. Entitlement? Damn straight, we are all entitled to what we paid in, but only “if” we in fact did pay into it. And of course there is the RMD — conveniently set up so we get to pay tax on what we’ve already paid tax on.
The SoSec fund however as you know has been sabotaged in many ways, by the “generosity” of our politicians, and now probably paying first-class airfare for illegal immigrants.
Just sayin’!
However you look at it, Marago, we've been ripped off. We haven't come close to getting our money's worth from this worthless government. Thanks!
I do not want all of the government I 've paid for.
Exactly. Good article and your comments are on point. What a sham.
Thanks, Dan!
Government created SS as just another way to introduce chaos into society and get us all at each other's throats while it eyed up our a$$e$ for a screwing.
Don't forget Greyhound, Windmills, Solar Panels, Kroger, and Fanny May. All subsidized and paid for courtesy of taxes and the Federal Reserve Printing Press... er... keyboard. And my guess is that the latter is paying the bulk at this point. A trillion here, a trillion there. Soon you're talking some REAL MONEY.
And none of it worthwhile. Look at what happened during the power outage in Texas a few years back, WW. Thanks!
Instead of being sneaky about it, I wish they’d just name their price and send one of their goons around each month for their envelope. If they’re going to be a mafia and shake us down all the time, they could at least be honest about it.
Exactly, Obsolete. At least you knew where you stood with the mob. And they had some twisted principles, while our government has no principles. Thanks.
Over here in México, we have to pay an entity when we do specific things, and it’s very straightforward and reasonable. The entity maintains order as well. A parallel government, so to speak. Less corrupt than the official monopoly.
I'm thinking the goon might end up in the bottom of the nearest patch of quicksand. That's the policy in Sevier County.
Mormons (pardon; "members of The Church") believe in being subject. (And have little or no quicksand.) Must be Arkansas or Tennessee.
Dang! You've inspired me to make a few comments.
About Abe Lincoln, I believe that he was a crazed syphilitic. You know that he took those mercury pills for some reason. Both he and Mary Todd were known for going absolute Bat Shit Crazy.
The Tea tax, There is an alternate, very plausible story about what the "Tea Party" was really about.
Long story, but should you want to know, I'd be happy to share it.
Gordon Kahl was burned to death if I remember correctly.
Now about the state of my personal wealth, In the Reagan years I was solidly middle class.
By the time Clinton left office, I was lower middle class.
By the time Obama left office, I was upper / lower class.
By the time Trump left office I was solid lower class. My only income being SS.
P S, I too am a community college dropout.
Back in the '70's, I had two paper routes and could afford to eat at McDonalds twice a week, and pay for my tuition.
In the '80's, I worked at the Steakhouse and paid for college tuition, which was $895 a semester, and bought my parents a lawn mower- which I used- I was the one who cut the grass and some appliances when they were short on cash.
In the '90's, I worked for the church and was able to put gas in my car and go on a road trip four times a year.
After the economic collapse I lost my job, my home, my car, and was reduced to eating beans three times a week.
After the Great Shrinkflation of 2019, beef has become a luxury.
Today, chicken is in danger of becoming a luxury. Fortunately I can get eggs for 85 cents a dozen. (They are greenish brown and very tasty. I am not going to ask if they are chickens.)
If this trend continues, by Christmas 2025 I expect to subsisting on roots and berries.
Not the way it's supposed to be, WW. Very sad. I will be having part 2 of the same thing we explored last week on my podcast. More people who are senselessly struggling financially, and no one in power cares. Thanks.
I just gotta ask. You say no one in power cares. But do they not care, or are they pleased with these continuing declines? Are they JUST looting us, or is destruction of America a policy?
Good distinction, Mike. I should elaborated by saying they don't care about how this all impacts others. They are doing just fine, and their children's futures are set. They know what side their bread is buttered on. Thanks!
It was a great Podcast, very interesting! Keep up the good work
Thanks, Robin!
Donald, please share a link to your podcast.
This is a stunner of an article. Thank you!
I appreciate the kind words, Abuse. My "I Protest" podcast live streams every Friday from 5-7 pm eastern, on the America Unplugged channel at Rokfin.com, and on my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-ojMVzQIvAqsawJP9fFGlg Thanks!
Eggs for $.85, where is that?
It is on an Amish farm down the road. They give me a discount because they don't think I have two dimes to rub together. (Some weeks they are right.)
WW, re: "roots and berries".
From someone who has been actually growing tubers and berries for a few years now, I can assure you that it isn't anywhere near as bad as some may think. I grow close to a dozen different types of tubers and tuberous roots, and probably half a dozen different berries in my yard. They are not only incredibly easy to grow, but taste fantastic! My grocery bill is much lower now than it ever was before inflation started to get real. The vast majority of what I grow is considered "invasive" by the government which is why they're so easy to grow. Some of what is being grown is also considered to be a "super food" which is essential when supply lines break down or food becomes too expensive to buy.
I do agree that a diet of roots and berries is not really all that bad. I am curious which are the "invasive" tubers you grow. I definitely have to try that- or look for them in the wild.
The best is dioscorea alata aka "The Wild Winged Yam." If you live in Florida, they're considered a nuisance. Sometimes you can find them on Amazon or ebay, etsy etc. They're in the kudzu family. There are seven varieties, but only this one is edible and is identified by the vine which grows from left to right. All others grow from right to left. I had one growing outside my back porch last year. It was up on the roof, but then suddenly crept back down and into my porch in a matter of hours. They can grow up to six inches in a day. They can grow a good ten pound tuber in a year. The record for the largest is somewhere around 150 to 200 lbs.
Grocery stores like Save a lot, Publix, etc. have name yams and Malanga blanca, or Malanga lila. The Malanga varieties have foliage that look identical to Elephant ears. These are all excellent for the "stealth gardener" who doesn't want the neighbors eating up his garden.
I hit the local farmer's markets or the organic section of the health food stores, even Walmart if necessary to get any kind of sweet potato they have to grow slips for the leaves as well as the tubers. They're in the same family as morning glories so the flowers are also awesome.
Cassava (aka yuca), Jerusalem artichokes (not from Jerusalem, but taste kind of like an artichoke), and mint potatoes can all be found on Amazon or ebay as well.
You can leave these things in the ground for years until you need them, but I've gotten into the habit of just eating them whenever because I'm too lazy to go to the store anymore. I'm growing everything in poor sandy soil so they're easy to grow and easy to harvest as well.
When Gordon Kahl's body was recovered, his hands and feet were cut off and missing. What darling little satanists those federal murderers are. They were probably used in some Freemasonic, black magic ritual.
I cannot wait to lead the charge on my White Stallion, when the Supreme Commander gives the word.
Welcome to the dropout club, Jerry! I think your situation reflects that of millions of people. Thanks.
I do have some savings, but that is evaporating at an alarming rate.
Re: " what the "Tea Party" was really about"
Most notably, it was the fact that our beloved founders were in direct competition with the crown to sell tea and the British government was selling it too cheaply for the competition to make any money. Taxes were low and going lower, but good luck finding that in any history books today.
You speak the truth, but many of us already well know it, are are far, far deeper down the rabbit hole of truth discovery about our country, and well past sick and angry of this.
have you gotten into georgist economics tax shift? taxes off labor and onto the commons rent?
Don't know about that, Alanna. Thanks.
Thanks, JustTruth!
There is so much to be outraged about. My complain is trivial, but I could happily punch a bureaucrat in the face. I take an IRA Distribution in Q4, and I don't know what it is until December. The communist at IRS and VA insist that I magically know in Q1 what my annual distribution will be, and thus want me to perfectly pay a quarter of the tax each quarter. Don't get me started on the how the tax folks define a quarter! (Q2 is 2 months and Q4 is 4 months.) So I get penalized for making a low Q1 payment for my Q4 distribution, plus interest! Patently unfair and outrageous. I always overpay, but somehow it's OK for them to take months to give me my refund, and without interest! It's all a pure money grab, no sensibility. Makes me wonder if communism would make it much simpler. (sarcasm)
Tucker Carlson has made somewhat the same point, Tommy. If our form of capitalism can't offer anything better than the mess we see currently, then why would young people opt for it over socialism? Over a guaranteed basic income? Thanks.
Yes, we work hard for our money, and everybody else feels they are entitled to it.
I stopped filing in 1979. I still get social security. If you want your eyes opened then you will have to read Title 26 US Internal Revenue Code until you understand it. Not that hard when you have the key to the code, but you will have to devote some time to it.
Seek the truth as the truth will set you free!
I put out a Word document, written years ago, that walks you through the code showing you the main points that an individual needs to know. I can email it to you free of charge if you are interested.
You can do a search for The Great IRS Hoax online and probably learn the same.
My document is only about 22 pages long, a half hour read, assuming the person reading can. Who knows these days. I admit that I get a little brash in the document.
For those that want the key to the code here it is: draw a circle, inside the circle write the word included, outside the circle write these words: automatically excluded. Understand that that which is not included is automatically excluded.
Also note that part 2 of the code, non-corporation, regarding individuals, is titled as The Public Salary Tax Act of 1939. It only applies to federal public servants salaries, not to the private sector. A "taxpayer" is defined as being someone who is subject to the code, not someone who pays taxes. Who is that? Federal public employees!
It is war by deception! The tax code, when understood, proves that they are not your government.
I admire you, Anticriminals. Thanks.
You can legally opt out of income taxes.
https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org/
The withholding tax meant that your income isn't your money. The government gives you what's left. after it first takes as much as it wants.
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Income tax is illegal. Decided by the Supreme Court in late 19th Century.
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As someone who has prepared taxes for the past 15 years, I agree that the tax code has become a dysfunctional system. Note, married filing separately is the least advantageous way to file your return, and in fact, if you file separately while one spouse is collecting SS, you lose your base altogether. They've got it all figured out. The changes in the tax code, especially since Trump's Tax Cuts and Jobs Act really screwed people who work in sales, and employees who pay for their own expenses. Every year - sometimes in the middle of the season - Congress will make changes where now you have to go back and file amended returns for your clients. More work. Taxing SS is insane, but that's what the MFers wanted under Reagan. I DO see a lot of interesting issues in my tax clients. One of them is that there is a lot of inheritance and that is - for the most part - tax free. So many have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from relatives - some as distant as 3rd cousins they've never met - and this is truly found money. I need to get me one of those there third distant cousins. And right away! I also see a lot of misery and over the past 15 years, I've seen an increase in the number of children who are sick as hell - autism, allergies, asthma, Tourette's, emotional issues, skin conditions, seizures, and cancer out the wazoo. Most senior clients are on a regimen of dozens of pharma drugs and they are proud of it! Anyway, thanks for this post. It should be shared widely.
I appreciate that, Lynn. We did save about $2500 by filing separately. Thanks.
It's because of people like you that there's so much ignorance you made a living off of other people's pain -you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Even TurboTax has the procedure... You get your W-2 you correct it with form 4852 by putting 0 for income you list the deductions you transpose this information on to your 1040. There is a space to make a comment you can see what that is at www.losthorizons.com (you're going to have to put it in the browser yourself sub stack has blocked access to that link that's a tell by the way)
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"The power to tax is the power to destroy" - John Marshall. The 14th Amendment was never properly ratified but all courts take "Judicial Notice" that it was. When a court takes Judicial Notice of something, it is construed as established fact and no more may be said about it unless you want a Contempt of Court charge. Compensation for labor is not income. Income is gain. The remuneration one receives for working is not gain. You are giving your time, energy, and life for it, so the one cancels out or negates the other. Gain is making money off of money. If you have $1,000 and invest it obtaining a 10% increase or $1,100 after a year, that $100 you made on top of your grand is gain and thus lawfully taxable. This is real law, logic, and precedent. Naturally, that's why it is ignored. Prior to the enactment of the 16th Amendment for income taxes in 1913, the U.S. had all essential services up and running, the same ones the income tax proponents say we need taxes for. They are liars, idiots, or both. The income tax system was created to control, oppress, and impoverish the populace. The System can print (or make computer entries) for whatever money is needed to pay for any project or service. The whole thing is a monstrous, criminal scam. It is worth noting that the two most vicious adjuncts of the legal industry, wherein any semblance of both procedural and substantive due process rights are routinely trampled, are the Family Courts and the IRS. What is most sickening is when the lying, weasel politicians bray like jackasses in a pepper patch about "Tax Reform". There has never been a tax reform in the history of the U.S. whereby after the dust settled, the people wound up paying less taxes. It is always more, unless of course you are of the ruling class. Lest anyone thinks they really own their home after their mortgage is paid off, try cease paying the extortionate property taxes and you'll see who owns it real quick. The reality is, we are serfs on Big Brother's plantation of perversity and miscegenation. Very concise, biting, and timely piece, Don, thank you.
Astute points, as always, Hereticdrummer. Thanks!
Thank you, Don. A long time ago, I knew an old timer, now long deceased, who worked as a young man in the aircraft industry. He said one morning at work the foreman called everyone together for a meeting. The foreman said: "I want you men to know this is the end of America. When the government can take money from your pay before before you even see it, it's game over. It's not much now but someday we'll be left with a pittance." This of course was when the IRS commenced tax withholding. "Should five percent appear too small (what you get), be thankful I don't take it all." - "Taxman" by the Beatles. Many years ago the commissioner of the IRS, I think his name was Roscoe Egger, said in a speech at his retirement dinner, "If the American people ever wake up to the fact that the IRS operates 95% on bluff, the whole system will collapse overnight." Be well, my friend.
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Outstanding! Thank you.
https://losthorizons.com/tax/taximages3/PolhemusME2023docs.pdf
The latest victory good luck clicking through with substack they don't let you you're going to have to copy and paste it into a browser
After ALL the money the government steals, how can they be so broke? We're nothing more than bank accounts for these murderous thieves. I agree, they need a full audit by someone independent, but there is no one who wants to lose their life who'll take on that big job. Wisconsin doesn't tax Social Security, but I did my own forms this year and what a nightmare. Fill out this form to complete that form. And another form to explain an amount on the main tax form. Its a disaster to even try and figure out what to do from their lousy manuals. I've read thru what I needed to know and kept asking myself, what they hell are they trying to say? I completed my Federal form incorrectly last year, thanks to my own stupidity, but the Feds sure fixed that up. So this year, I got some advice from a friend. Its all one non-funny joke! Every time I think of taxes, I can see JoTato whispering that we all "need to pay our fair share". Really? Little sonny boy Hunter hasn't paid his, and he owes Millions! We have no say in too much, unless we want to end up in prison without being able to use a lawyer. That is, one who'll have the cajones to take on your case. A woman I work with said I should run for office. I told her my life would probably last one week. Good evaluation, Don. I never expect any less from you!
Wake up, Americans! This is WHY they want all these Illegal Invaders here. They have No Loyalty and will do as told. Too bad they are not wise to the fact that their heads will be next on the chopping block. If this country burns to the ground, well, maybe that is what needs to happen. Some things are not fixable. Whatever it takes to force the rats off the ship!
Fran: My wife and I decided years ago to pay our Tax Lady her fees ($500 this year) to do our taxes. It saves us a lot of headaches. I collect the tax data that comes in the mail and send it to the Tax Lady in late March. She sends back our completed forms and what we owe. We send off the checks and sign her forms. She e-files our tax returns with California and DC.
It's the price of Serfdom in the USA. "Land of Liberty" my ass!
I called someone to do my taxes, but for $229? I don't think so! Its not really hard, seeing I only have the write-off of property taxes (and all the other useless "freebies" you think they are gifting you). This Social Security is bullshit, IMO. Double taxing us. We never receive everything we put in over the years. Now they claim its broken? Really? Where is MY MONEY? They'll work on stealing our IRAs and 401(k)s next. Makes me extremely unhappy, if you get my drift. Most sheep plod along, crying, What can you do? Well, even if a couple million of us started to fight back really hard, it could make a difference. Before they wipe us all out, as their intended plans. These people are snakes, worse than what God even warned us about.
I don't know about where you live, Fran, but in Virginia, they have places where volunteers from the AARP do your taxes for free. Thanks.
I wouldn't trust AARP to wipe my behind. I may as well go to the dummies at HR Block. I do my own forms and if I eff them up, then as paid employees, they should explain to me. I live in Wisconsin, you know, one of the Blue States where its thick as thieves here. I went to Office Depot to make my copies, and the extremely Nice Man there didn't even charge me. Oops, maybe I better put that on my tax forms! LOL
Fran: Yes, the extortionists are worse than snakes. I remember back in the fifties a person could fill out their tax form on a postcard.
Why are we doing them anyways? They DO have ALL the records! Makes me so angry and then you look at the Biden family as one of the many and they get away with so much! Makes me sick!
Fran: Good question. Why do we have to fill out the tax forms? A sign of servitude to our masters I reckon. Plus, there's the tax preparer's lobby.
Yep! I had one CPA do mine one year and he claimed that I owed the State of Wisconsin! I said, How is that? I claim 0 on my W-2 so I can get the chicken droppings at the end of the year. Oops! Like anything else, you really got baby-sit people or they'll rip you off, or are just plain stupid. Is anyone Competent to do their jobs anymore? To be Honest? To be Careful?
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Thank you!
If you don't have Federal privilege when you get your W-2 you simply use form 4852 to correct income to zero you list all of your $ that were withheld. You transpose that to your 1040 and mail it in I've done it I have over two decades worth in and I got letters back from California and the IRS in my favor this is not fantasy thanks for the nice comment! I'm so used to getting attacked.
You should do a Podcast and and explain via using actual forms. I'd sure as hec would like to know. At my age, I do not want to end up in Prison. Not after all the agony I've (and the rest of the good Citizens) been thru!
BTW - many years ago, in the 1980s, I worked with a fella that told me it was illegal to pay taxes. The boss told him to be quiet so I didn't end up in Prison. That person I worked with was Correct! I've heard this from others as well. We do not BOW to the Feds!
Good analysis, Fran. Thanks!
A few years ago, I received a letter from the IRS informing me that I needed to submit a worksheet, schedule D or something like that. I felt like I was having a flashback to the third grade. They were asking me to show my work. They've got the same information I have, and they've done the calculations so why do I have to go through this nonsense as well? I asked them to please send me a copy of my return. They said they lost it.
Are you kidding me? They don't lose a thing, everything they "should" be doing is electronic. They know every time you flush the toilet, so I'm calling BS on their excuse! I always makes copies of my forms. When I screwed up my form last year, they didn't even explain what I did wrong, just sent me a check for a lot less than I calculated. ROBBER BARONS! Many of them IRS thieves know less about the tax forms than we do!
I wish I was kidding. They also sent me a very threatening and extensive explanation of all the fees, penalties, fines etc. that I would be incurring if I didn't submit that worksheet immediately. I tossed it all in the trash. I didn't make any money. I actually ended up losing money and was doing one of those loss carry overs from a few years earlier. I think the best option is going to be to just leave the country and forget all about the IRS completely.
You could reach out Steve Lehto. He has a YT channel and appears to be pretty knowledgeable. I had the Feds come after me for $14.76, interest on my checking account, so I had to include that with my taxes last year, and of course, with the flipping correct form. My older sister said they wanted payback for something I think was under $1.00. Can you believe that??? Feds gotta go!
There are two types of people in the world, those who produce more than they consume and save the rest, and those who don't produce anything, but live off those who do. We call that second group either predators or parasites. They produce nothing (like all government jobs, welfare recipients, and others who don't report income).
Don't get me wrong. All taxation is theft because everything the government does is immoral, illegal, illegitimate, and unconstitutional. Everything. There are only 18 enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8 of the long ago defunct Constitution. But 99% of what happens in D.C. is outside Article I, Section 8 even if you say it exists.
Regardless, we have makers and takers (producers/predators and parasites). Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything. So the entire government, which used to be less than 18% of the GDP (all fraudulent because of the way it is calculated, just like the CPI and the unemployment) is now well over 40% of the fake GDP because every single job could be and should be eliminated because they are all unconstitutional.
We do not live in a representative republic. We live under what I call "Participatory Fascism". It is a combination of communism, socialism, corporatism, and fascism (along with any other -isms you might have. It's as Totalitarian as you can have. The markets are not free and fair. Neither are you. It's a total clusterbungle. Banksters, thugs, oligarchs, kleptocrats, and the ruling elite run this criminal cabal. It is not a government. It is organized crime.
I could go on forever. We need to fix the money and when we do we fix the world. Fake fiat counterfeited US$ printed out of thin air goes mostly to the banksters, corporatists, military, intelligence organizations and Wall Street thugs. They all produce nothing and have 90% of the wealth of the country. This is really really messed up when you explain it how it really is. All this illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional activity produces nothing but empire building, warmongering, extorting, killing, maiming, lying, cheating, and stealing worldwide. It enslaves the world to the fake fiat US$ and exports (or used to) most of the inflation because of Bretton Woods.
It is all failing. We haven't won a war since WWII and Russia won that. We were on the winning side. Otherwise we have lost every single conflict we initiated with our aggression / regime changes.
That all said. There is a solution. There is only one solution. Fix the money. Fix the world. To do that we need to opt out of this authoritarian mobster rule. Bitcoin is the solution. It brings Peace, Truth, Freedom, Hope, and Abundance for all where fake fiat money brings wars, lies, slavery, poverty, and inequality. People can scoff. But Bitcoin is already winning. It will eventually consume all the $900 Trillion in worldwide debt, all the wealth, and all the fake fiat money. It has already consumed over a Trillion dollars and is the 8th largest monetary asset in the world. In a year or two it will consume Apple, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Saudi Aramco and have only Gold at $14.5 Trillion ahead of it, which it will consume in a few years. It gets stronger the more it consumes.
You probably don't understand it because 99.9% of the world doesn't. Check out Bitcoin Twitter (X). Learn it. Study it. Love it. Bitcoin is something to look forward to in the near future as it destroys nation states and their fake Ponzi money. #BitcoinFixesTheWorld
Good points, Jeff. Thanks.
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If Bitcoin becomes more valuable, then why would anyone sell it? If people hold onto it, then it can't become money or currency.
Just for the record, the "Stamp Act" was not a tax on stamps. Rather it was a stamp on paper products. Any paper products that did not have the stamp were illegal. It's something like stipulating that you can only buy lumber for Lowes, even if Hope Despot has a cheaper price.
Meanwhile, taxing social security is beyond the beyond. When I used to get my paychecks, the income tax (local, state, and Federal- I had the fun privilege of living in a place where all three layers got their cut) was on the whole whopping gross income. AND THEN the "Social Security" was deducted- so Granny would not starve, I was told. So that "Social Security" was already taxed. (I don't really see how that is "income" seeing as I already worked for that dough. But hey, what are words in a society where you can identify as a cat? I am just an antiquated Medieval chauvinist swine, I suppose.)
Of course, I never expect to see a nickel of my "social security" (I lost my card and cannot remember my number.)
I just plan to garden until the chemtrails kill everything. And by the looks at the grass and garlic this year, that might be sooner than later.
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Excellent rant, Don. Spot on. I agree with every word.
The point of "taxes" (actually, armed robbery of the peasantry by our neo-feudal lords) is strictly subjugation of the masses. Impoverishment and humiliation are wonderful tools for keeping the proles in line. Yes, we are all in an abusive relationship with a psychopathic spouse and there appears to be not opt out...
Having just completed 75 trips around the sun, this old boy is still slogging away as a "1099" employee since the Social Security payments that were taken from me over my lifetime will not begin to cover household needs... And, so it goes... Thankful to be able to physically and mentally still see patients productively...
Thanks, TnDoc!
PS: Social Security and Medicare are Welfare Payments. FICA taxes go straight into the General Fund and are spent immediately by the government.
My wife and I had to write checks to DC and Sacramento this year. We are retired and live off of meager SS payments and some investment income. It's pathetic. And don't get me going on the property taxes. We get NOTHING for those.