I just ran across this article, and since it talks about something I used to experience many years ago, I thought I'd link to it here.
Back around 10 to 12 or so years ago, I was spending a good amount of time on Yahoo groups and some other message boards that discussed the "tax honesty" movement. I stopped visiting them because it became an exercise in futility. I discovered that there were many who didn't want to do their own research, they just wanted a "cookie cutter" method to get the IRS off of their back. There is no such thing, imho.
Then there were the trolls, those that wanted to nitpick every thing you wrote, or discredit some of the leaders of the tax honesty movement. Reading this article reminded me of that time. It gets so you don't know who to trust, so I decided to trust no one. In that respect, they won.
Here's the first paragraph of the article, which is titled "The Conspiracy Theory is True...":
In the annals of internet conspiracy theories, none is more pervasive than the one speculating paid government plants infiltrate websites, social network sites, and comment sections with an intent to sow discord, troll, and generally manipulate, deceive and destroy reputations. Guess what: it was all true.
ALERT!! There a number of times that the thing that calls himself "RetSquid" uses court case history that has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AVERAGE READER OR ISSUE!!! This thing likes to cite cases like United States V Denny R Patridge as a case for the OMB number. This case is about money laundering, illegal gambling and other crimes, NOT ABOUT INCOME TAX. In fact the defendant defeated the false income tax filing charge. That piece of manure who calls itself "RetSquid", once again cited a Supreme Court case that had NOTHING TO DO with INCOME TAX. This was in Alabama and the issue was on voters rights. (United States v McLeod, the idiot misspelled McLeod as MacLeod.) Google it and find out for yourself. Don't believe this piece of manure. He makes Sheldon Cohen look like a saint. A good place to start is www(dot)truth-attack(dot)com. This site was written by attorneys, not by "fringe lunatics". Also Google "Tax Honesty Movement". Aaron Russo's "America Freedom To Fascism" a special movie about the income tax made by the late Aaron Russo, an award winning movie producer. There is also a number of former IRS officials that have come out and have been honest about the misapplication of the IRS code.
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