"It's So Simple, It's Ridiculous"

Taxing times for 16th Amendment rebels.

Brian Doherty from the May 2004 issue

(Page 10 of 11)

 

"See!" Schiff is pleased. "They’re not the same!"

 

It all seems so sensible with the energetic Schiff yapping at you. Of course, to say that something falls into a category is not the same as saying it is identical to the category. Schiff’s argument is ultimately as convincing as saying that if an ap-ple is a fruit, and an apple is not an orange, then an orange can’t be a fruit. Still, he seems happy with it.

 

How, one might ask (and many have), can Schiff continue to maintain there is no legal obligation to pay income taxes when he has spent time in jail for not paying income taxes’ He addresses this question in the latest edition of The Federal Mafia: "Unfortunately, some peo-ple who were persuaded by [my books] that they could legally stop paying income tax (they could) went to jail. How many, I don’t know. But they and their families paid a terrible price because of what they learned....I must again warn you regarding the use of this information. There is no question that it is all correct. Paying and filing income taxes are, by law, voluntary. The law...also provides you with a means for stopping the withholding of that tax, which, by any legitimate standard, you have a perfect right to do. But, by doing so, you run the risk of going to jail!"

 

"Liable, Liable, What Makes Me Liable’"

 

The reason for that seeming paradox, Schiff says, is simple: The IRS and the judges it brings cases before are corrupt and don’t care what the law says. Which is why, since February 2003, Schiff has had his Las Vegas office raided and records of all his clients seized; the IRS has moved for judgment on $2.5 million in back taxes and penalties it claims he owes; and a federal judge has banned the sale and distribution of The Federal Mafia by Schiff and forbade him from publicly saying what he believes about the income tax. (That ban is under appeal now.)

 

Schiff tells a group of well-wishers this latest wave of statist oppression swamped him momentarily -- he went into a depression and lost 20 pounds -- but "I’m back! I’m back! I’m going to kick their ass!"

 

He proudly points out that all the back taxes in the $2.5 million judgment are from many years ago and that the IRS has done nothing to him for his more recent zero return filings. This proves to him that strategy must be foolproof.

 

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