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'Boot the Democrats Out!' Says Tax Expert and Reformer Giving Major Reasons
Why
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Oct. 3, 2006 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- According to tax
expert John C. Garrison: Like a reflex reaction, it seems natural for people
quickly to associate our dreaded income tax with the I.R.S. But a new book by
Garrison seeks to turn this focus instead on Congress and the Democratic
Party. It is Congress, after all, with Democrats as originators and chief
defenders of the system, who since 1913 are responsible for whatever is wrong
or dreadful with our current form of income tax since it was Congress, with
Democrats leading the charge, who in 1913 created our income tax in the form
it stands today.

*(PHOTO: Send2Press.com/mediadesk/1006-TaxScandal_72dpi.jpg)
*(Photo Caption: Book jacket cover for "The New Income Tax Scandal: How
Congress Hijacked the Sixteenth Amendment.")
Leaders bear ultimate responsibility. That is why the Democratic Party, as the
leading and unyielding defenders, the obstructionists of reform and the
originators and chief political power that sustains and is behind our dreadful
income tax today are above all to blame for the persistence in our midst of
this most corrupt and inhumane system.

In his new book, "The New Income Tax Scandal: How Congress Hijacked the
Sixteenth Amendment," John C. Garrison, who has served honorably on the legal
staff of a major law enforcement agency, and who has been active for over two
decades in tax history research and tax reform activism, has delved into the
history of those devious maneuvers in Congress that led to the establishment
of our modern income tax system, fearlessly revealing in his book the
legislative corruption that went into the system at its inception and, in the
end, proposing a viable and exciting alternative.
If you think our elitist, self-serving Congress today does what it wants
without regard to citizens' well-being, wait until you learn from Garrison
what unscrupulous Democrats in Congress did when they began our modern income
tax in 1913 under the Democratic administration of Woodrow Wilson. For the
first time, the disgusting inhumanity and corruption in our income tax-the
real reason why this tax is so universally hated-is here clearly,
methodically, and with professional competence, eloquence and skill revealed
by John Garrison.
Included in the shocking detail are the following events which Garrison
documents:
* In 1913, under the Democratic administration of Woodrow Wilson, and with a
trusting public caught up in the exciting news of a newly-ratified 16th (or
Income Tax) Amendment of that year, Congressional Democrats, in tax
legislation supposedly based on the new Amendment, managed quietly and
inappropriately amid the public excitement to convert the income tax from the
excise tax it had been until then to the direct tax it is now through an abuse
of Congressional power under the new Amendment. The Amendment had passed with
wide popular support that arose from a promise made by Congressional Democrats
that the income tax would be and remain a tax only for the "idle rich" who
lived off the gain from their investments. According to the Democrats, the
working class, seen as already too encumbered with consumption taxes, was to
be spared from this burden. This was big news in 1913.

* While the 1913 error of Congress was indirectly confirmed as such three
years after the fact in the 1916 rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court in
Brushaber v. Union Pacific (240 U.S. 1) and Stanton v. Baltic Mining (240 U.S.
103), Congress was not compelled in these cases to correct itself since the
High Court here did not directly consider, or specifically discuss, or bring
to public attention an issue of whether Congress had committed an error in its

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act of 1913. Instead, the Court simply disposed of these cases merely and only
by correcting litigant misconceptions over the true intent of the 16th
Amendment. With Congress not pressured by these rulings, and with no
widespread public suspicion or displeasure with the system existing at the
time due to the tax being then applied only to a minority rich class (for whom
alone Democrats in Congress had promised and said it was intended), it became
convenient for Congress-following the old but flawed adage that what people
don't know won't hurt them-to leave quietly in the system the inherent
corruption as it was and as it is to this day. This also left an unsuspecting
public largely unaware of the huge financial loss the Congressional abuse of
1913 would cause U.S. workers in later decades. This happened when, in a
delayed "bait and switch" trick, the tax was turned from its original intent
promised by Democrats as a tax solely for the rich to a tax applied on
American workers en masse under the Democratic administration of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. It is here where the big Democratic lie emerged and the "hidden"
problem of the income tax kicked in for the first time with a working public
deeply unaware this had happened, as it is true also to this day.
* In his book, "The Fair Tax," Democratic Senator Bill Bradley admits these
events under the Democratic administration of Roosevelt when he said that
under Roosevelt, "the federal income tax was changed from a 'class tax,'
applicable only to the most well-off, into a 'mass tax'" (p. 80).

* Even though the U.S. Supreme Court had already affirmed the property nature
of labor in its 1884 decision in Butchers' Union v. Crescent City, calling
labor "the most sacred and inviolable" form of property (111 U.S. 757)-more
recently the same was said of the mere "right to work" itself in Greene v.
McElroy (1959)-Congressional Democrats, through their legislative abuse of
1913, callously and brutally stripped American workers in effect of their
constitutional right to claim either their labor or their right to work as
their "income-producing property" so as to deprive the workers inhumanely of
their legal right to deduct the costs of their personal labor (the skilled and
intelligent human energy and time workers sell to employers). These deductible
costs included expenditures for such living necessities as food, shelter and
proper health maintenance.
* To keep the U.S. tax system from suddenly collapsing in 1978 and to cover up
the historic misdeed of Congressional Democrats and their corrupt inhumanity
in the income tax, the U.S. Tax Court in the case of Reading vs. Commissioner
was forced to deny that human labor is property, defining such labor as mere
"behavior performed by human beings in exchange for compensation" (70 T.C.
733) but failing to cite relevant authority to justify this bizarre, arbitrary
and legally fictitious definition or to explain the existence of those long-
established authorities that clearly and most directly contradict this
definition.
* When Garrison made this discovery and filed without attorney several cases
in federal court (beginning in 1990) challenging this corruption in the
system-a corruption of Democratic origin that is so profound, incredible and
inhumane that it places the total life-sustenance of every working taxpayer
(what workers are entitled to keep of their hard-earned pay) completely under
the mercy and grace of Congress-he was shocked to find that the evidence he
put forth in the form of legal precedents affirming a worker's labor to be
income-producing property was being systematically suppressed by federal
judges who then used stonewalling tactics to suppress Garrison's strenuous
objections. Garrison's question was, "If the tax system is so legitimate, why
is it that federal judges feel they have to step in with lawless tactics to
help the U.S. Justice Department defend the system against my arguments and
evidence, which neither the courts nor the I.R.S. could refute-only evade or
suppress?" Repeated and identical experiences of this nature in three separate
federal jurisdictions led Garrison to conclude that there was something
terribly wrong being covered up by the system and that the federal courts were
in on it.

* In the Garrison cases, federal judges were forced to obstruct justice not
only through the suppression of evidence and the deprivation of Garrison's
right to due process-with two federal judges in Tallahassee, Florida, Senior

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Judge William Stafford and Magistrate Judge William Sherrill, Jr., acting in
concert to do this-but through a practice of "judicial activism" that included
casuistry, overt lies and deception as the only way these judges had to keep
the system from suddenly collapsing and publicly exposing the historic,
insidious and inhumane act of Democrats in Congress.
* This, unfortunately, is not a fanciful "conspiracy theory." These are real
life events for which there is already plenty of hard evidence readily
available in the public domain for anyone to verify.

* In his remarkably revealing, fearless and explosive book, Garrison proposes

a hybrid tax system as the most equitable, viable and constructive solution to
the problem he addresses.
JOHN C. GARRISON serves as a specialist staff legal assistant in a civil
service career in the area of rulemaking and administrative law. In a private
and separate effort, he has been engaged in the study of federal tax history
and law and in tax reform activism for over two decades.
To contact the author or for more detail on his book, visit
http://www.johncgarrison.com.
BOOK INFORMATION:
Title: The New Income Tax Scandal: How Congress Hijacked the Sixteenth
Amendment
Author: John C. Garrison
Publisher: Xlibris Corp.
Pages: 133
ISBN: 1-4134-9544-3
Year: 2005

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