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[00:00.880 --> 00:04.720]  Welcome to the show. I'm not telling you anything you don't already know when I say
[00:04.720 --> 00:10.640]  America has become incredibly polarized. A claim I see almost daily from some folks on the right
[00:10.640 --> 00:15.040]  is that Joe Biden should be in jail. Today we're going to explore whether
[00:15.040 --> 00:19.200]  Biden should be sitting in prison rather than sitting in the Oval Office.
[00:19.200 --> 00:40.880]  Let's start with this. I am completely nonpartisan, so no bias should be imputed from the fact that
[00:40.880 --> 00:46.480]  today I'm going to talk about Republicans demanding Joe Biden be charged, tried, convicted,
[00:46.480 --> 00:52.880]  and imprisoned. Other than perhaps Ron Paul, who's no longer in office, I'd be happy for
[00:52.880 --> 00:57.680]  all of them from both sides to get charged, tried, and convicted and sent to prison.
[00:58.480 --> 01:04.880]  However, and this is a huge however, I don't support that happening to
[01:05.920 --> 01:11.040]  any of them, whether it's Lindsey Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy, or Chuck Schumer,
[01:12.000 --> 01:18.640]  without evidence the person has violated a federal statute. I do not want to be sent to
[01:18.640 --> 01:24.240]  jail without having violated a law. I presume you don't either. If you don't want to be sent
[01:24.240 --> 01:28.880]  to prison without having violated a law, I'm sure you can see how hypocritical it would be for you
[01:28.880 --> 01:35.280]  to want someone else put in prison without having violated a law. Before we go further,
[01:36.240 --> 01:43.680]  let me be forthright with you about how I see Biden. Joe Biden is a prolific liar. You can
[01:43.680 --> 01:47.920]  find videos on the internet of him telling all sorts of lies, and I'm not talking about things
[01:47.920 --> 01:54.720]  people who don't like him might choose to interpret as lies. I mean inarguable lies such as the claim
[01:54.720 --> 02:00.880]  that he graduated top of his law class when in fact he graduated 76th in a class of 85.
[02:01.520 --> 02:06.080]  He told reporters he was the only student in his law school class to be there on a full academic
[02:06.080 --> 02:12.640]  scholarship when in fact he did not receive a full academic scholarship. He said he had been
[02:12.640 --> 02:18.640]  chosen the quote outstanding student of the year in the political science department. He later had
[02:18.640 --> 02:26.320]  to admit that wasn't true. He claimed he had graduated with three degrees. He later admitted
[02:26.400 --> 02:32.400]  he only has one. He committed plagiarism in law school by submitting 45 pages of somebody else's
[02:32.400 --> 02:38.800]  earlier work as his own. When that was discovered, he had to make a public apology. Yet that didn't
[02:38.800 --> 02:43.600]  teach him anything because years later in a campaign speech he plagiarized, almost word for
[02:43.600 --> 02:52.000]  word, the speech of a British politician. Joe Biden is clearly not a man of honor or integrity.
[02:52.000 --> 02:55.680]  I've intentionally stayed away from discussing his more current lies because I don't want this
[02:55.680 --> 03:01.440]  to become a political debate. I want to keep the focus on whether he should be in prison. The only
[03:01.440 --> 03:05.680]  reason I share the information about his earlier lies is as we move forward I want you to know,
[03:05.680 --> 03:11.360]  I want you to be aware that I think Biden is dishonorable. With that under our belts,
[03:12.080 --> 03:17.280]  let's get into the question of whether Joe Biden should be sitting in a prison or in the Oval Office.
[03:17.920 --> 03:24.560]  We need to begin with how in America someone gets prosecuted for a crime. The two elements that must
[03:24.560 --> 03:31.440]  be present are facts and the law. More pointedly, the facts submitted at trial must support that
[03:31.440 --> 03:38.320]  the defendant violated the language of a criminal statute. In other words, the facts and law have to
[03:38.320 --> 03:44.640]  blend together to show a violation. And as you're probably aware, that blending of facts and law
[03:44.640 --> 03:50.880]  must be sufficient to persuade a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did commit a
[03:50.880 --> 03:55.600]  criminal act. Most of the accusations I hear from people on the right concerning criminal conduct
[03:55.600 --> 04:04.800]  by Biden revolve around claims of influence peddling. Are you prepared to have your mind blown?
[04:06.320 --> 04:15.680]  There is no federal statute prohibiting influence peddling. Once you've recovered from that
[04:15.680 --> 04:21.280]  shocking bit of information, if you think about it, it makes perfect sense because politics is,
[04:21.280 --> 04:27.440]  in a very real sense, all about influence peddling. The very act of a politician telling voters what
[04:27.440 --> 04:32.240]  he or she will do for them if they send him or her to Congress is a form of influence peddling.
[04:32.240 --> 04:38.000]  It essentially says that in exchange for your vote, your chosen guy or gal will use his position
[04:38.000 --> 04:45.600]  of power in DC to get you what you want. But the claims made about Biden are that he has used his
[04:45.600 --> 04:54.480]  office to illegally influence various matters. The key word there is illegally, and illegal means
[04:54.480 --> 05:00.800]  he violated a statute. So what might those statutes be? As I listen to those saying Biden should be
[05:00.800 --> 05:07.760]  in prison, the most likely statute is 18 U.S.C. section 201 entitled Bribery of Public Officials
[05:07.760 --> 05:12.640]  and Witnesses. It's a lengthy statute, so I'm not going to share it all with you here today.
[05:12.720 --> 05:17.360]  I'll put a link in the notes so you can read it for yourself if inclined. The relevant portion
[05:17.360 --> 05:26.000]  for today's discussion is subsection C, which lays out the following. Whoever being a public official
[05:26.000 --> 05:32.160]  or person selected to be a public official, directly or indirectly, corruptly demands, seeks,
[05:32.160 --> 05:38.560]  receives, accepts, or agrees to receive or accept anything of value personally or for any other
[05:38.560 --> 05:45.920]  person or entity in return for, A, being influenced in the performance of any official act, B,
[05:46.560 --> 05:52.160]  being influenced to commit or aid in committing or to collude in or allow any fraud or make
[05:52.160 --> 05:58.080]  opportunity for the commission of any fraud upon the United States, or C, being induced to do or
[05:58.080 --> 06:03.840]  omit to do any act in violation of the official duty of such official or person. I want to draw
[06:03.840 --> 06:09.440]  your attention to the opening sentence again. I'm going to emphasize the words of which I want you
[06:09.440 --> 06:16.640]  to take note. Whoever being a public official or person selected to be a public official,
[06:17.520 --> 06:27.040]  corruptly demands, seeks, receives, accepts, blah blah blah. Corruptly. That's the key word. In other
[06:27.040 --> 06:32.560]  words, a government official can demand, seek, receive, accept anything of value, blah blah blah,
[06:32.560 --> 06:38.560]  as long as it's not done corruptly or at least it can't be shown to have been done corruptly.
[06:39.600 --> 06:45.200]  Let's consider a scenario. Let's say a government official has the ability to dispense
[06:45.200 --> 06:50.720]  federal funds for certain purposes. He'd like a buddy or family member to receive a financial
[06:50.720 --> 06:55.200]  benefit from the dispensing of certain funds. Obviously, he can't come right out and say,
[06:55.760 --> 07:01.200]  I'll give your organization a generous share of this money if you funnel it to Jerry Smith.
[07:02.000 --> 07:09.360]  That would fulfill the corruptly element of the statute. Instead, the official with authority to
[07:09.360 --> 07:15.280]  dispense the funds sends a representative to a meeting with the organization that might be the
[07:15.280 --> 07:20.400]  recipient of the money. The narrative is that the dispensing official wants to be confident the money
[07:20.400 --> 07:25.360]  will be used for the correct legal purposes for which the spending was authorized by Congress.
[07:25.920 --> 07:30.320]  After the meeting takes place, they agree to meet for cocktails that evening. They all know that's
[07:30.320 --> 07:34.880]  where the real business is going to get done. The representative of the dispensing official invites
[07:34.880 --> 07:39.440]  Jerry Smith to join them for drinks. When the conversation turns to the discussion that took
[07:39.440 --> 07:45.440]  place earlier in the day, Jerry interjects that he's well situated to help the organization comply
[07:45.440 --> 07:50.720]  with the requirements of receiving the funds. The dispensing official's representative expresses
[07:50.720 --> 07:54.880]  that he thinks that would strengthen the organization's position to be a recipient of
[07:54.880 --> 08:00.640]  the fund and suggests perhaps the org and Jerry might consider working together.
[08:01.440 --> 08:08.160]  The officer of the organization that's hoping to receive the funds gets the message loud and clear.
[08:08.160 --> 08:13.120]  If the organization wants the funds, a portion must be paid to Jerry Smith.
[08:13.120 --> 08:17.440]  A few weeks later, the officer for the organization calls the government official
[08:17.440 --> 08:21.440]  and during the course of a rather banal conversation just happens to mention the
[08:21.440 --> 08:27.200]  organization has retained Jerry Smith to help the project move forward as smoothly as possible.
[08:28.080 --> 08:34.880]  Mission accomplished. Everyone knows the game being played. No demands were made.
[08:35.520 --> 08:40.080]  No ultimatums were given. It was a polite conversation over drinks. No one could
[08:40.080 --> 08:45.120]  successfully make a claim that the funds were given contingent on Jerry getting a cut.
[08:46.080 --> 08:50.480]  When the time comes, the dispensing official allocates the funds to the organization
[08:51.120 --> 08:57.200]  and Jerry gets his cut. Everyone knew the game being played and everyone is happy with the outcome.
[08:57.840 --> 09:02.080]  That's a simple streamlined scenario that makes it easy to see how the game is played
[09:02.640 --> 09:08.080]  but at the international level, the game can get pretty complex with lots of people in the mix.
[09:08.080 --> 09:12.800]  There are also a slew of other games those in DC play to secure financial benefits for themselves
[09:12.800 --> 09:18.960]  and their friends. Whichever game is being played, all of them involve influence peddling,
[09:18.960 --> 09:26.320]  which as we discussed is not illegal. Earlier I said that as I've listened to those saying Biden
[09:26.320 --> 09:35.840]  should be in prison, the most likely statute is 18 USC 201. Why did I say it's the most likely
[09:35.840 --> 09:42.720]  statute? Why didn't I say that it's the statute they claim Biden violated? That's because the
[09:42.720 --> 09:49.440]  people who want Biden in prison have never once named a statute they believe he's violated.
[09:49.440 --> 09:54.640]  I've been asking them for more than a year. No one has been able to point to a statute.
[09:55.360 --> 10:03.200]  Why is that? Biden has held one office or another in DC for 50 years, literally 50 years.
[10:03.920 --> 10:10.880]  Do you think a guy who has been immersed in that system for 50 years knows how the games are played?
[10:11.840 --> 10:18.720]  Section 201 exists essentially to prosecute government officials who peddle influence overtly
[10:19.360 --> 10:25.120]  rather than subtly. There are very few prosecutions under 201 because, as I mentioned earlier,
[10:25.120 --> 10:30.400]  politics is essentially one big game of influence peddling and everyone in DC knows how the game is
[10:30.400 --> 10:37.120]  played. We've all seen the numbers where, after several years in the house, a congressperson
[10:37.200 --> 10:44.000]  with an annual salary of $174,000 somehow ends up with a net worth of $10 million. Also,
[10:44.000 --> 10:50.400]  there's a reason the long-established nickname for the Senate is the Millionaire's Club. After 50
[10:50.400 --> 10:57.040]  years in DC, Biden knows the game inside and out. The reason people on the right can't name a statute
[10:57.040 --> 11:05.520]  Biden violated is he hasn't violated any because he knows how to play the game. If right now you're
[11:05.520 --> 11:11.520]  thinking Biden is a dirty rotten SOB who's getting away with shit because he knows how to play the
[11:11.520 --> 11:18.880]  game, I agree with you. But the same is true of everyone in senior positions in Washington.
[11:18.880 --> 11:24.080]  Do you think Lindsey Graham is any less a dirty rotten SOB who's getting away with shit because
[11:24.080 --> 11:29.840]  he knows how to play the game simply because he has an R after his name or Mitch McConnell
[11:30.560 --> 11:38.240]  before his brain turned to mush? As much as I loathe Biden, to focus on him in terms of
[11:38.240 --> 11:47.920]  influence peddling is to miss the point. Do our elected representatives in DC serve the American
[11:47.920 --> 11:55.760]  people? They do. But while in DC, they also serve themselves. No one leaves congress or senior
[11:55.760 --> 12:01.280]  positions in the executive branch poor. When working within a structure that brings in
[12:01.280 --> 12:08.640]  and spends trillions of dollars a year in which literally everyone is using their positions to
[12:08.640 --> 12:16.000]  create wealth for themselves, who isn't going to do it? For the sake of argument, let's say there
[12:16.000 --> 12:21.280]  are 10,000 people in the federal government who hold positions that permit them to enhance their
[12:21.280 --> 12:26.960]  financial position by playing one of these various games. Now, imagine a guy is elected or appointed
[12:26.960 --> 12:31.440]  to a position where he can play the game and secure his economic future. In other words,
[12:32.000 --> 12:38.800]  he's one of those 10,000. Once he gets sworn in, it doesn't take long until his peers share this
[12:38.800 --> 12:46.000]  factual narrative with him. If he plays the game properly, he isn't breaking any laws. On the whole,
[12:46.000 --> 12:51.440]  the public has no idea about it. The media never tells the American people about it.
[12:52.000 --> 12:59.840]  The other 9,999 people who are in positions to do it are doing it. And he'll leave DC never having
[12:59.840 --> 13:07.920]  to worry about money ever again. In short, everyone's doing it. No one cares. It's not
[13:07.920 --> 13:16.400]  illegal and it's simply the way things are in DC. It would take a person with very strong scruples
[13:16.400 --> 13:22.480]  not to do it. And how many people who seek positions of power in DC have very strong
[13:22.480 --> 13:29.040]  scruples? Pointing a finger at this guy or that gal out of partisanship, in my opinion,
[13:29.680 --> 13:35.680]  does a disservice to our country by miscasting a systemic problem as something that should
[13:35.680 --> 13:40.800]  only be seen as partisan. Democrats point to Republicans doing it as evidence of how
[13:40.800 --> 13:45.920]  terrible Republicans are and Republicans point to Democrats who are doing it as evidence of how
[13:45.920 --> 13:54.240]  terrible Democrats are. In reality, they're all doing it. DC has some very real parallels
[13:54.240 --> 14:00.960]  to reality TV. In the main, the public sees of DC what those in DC want the public to see
[14:01.760 --> 14:07.760]  and nothing more. Most Americans are completely ignorant of what happens away from the cameras
[14:07.760 --> 14:14.560]  in DC. And as you might imagine, the vast majority of what happens is never seen by the cameras or
[14:14.560 --> 14:24.960]  reported by the press. The key is to stop believing, stop investing oneself in the narratives put out
[14:24.960 --> 14:32.720]  by the DC spin masters and put before you by the media. The people in DC are telling you what to
[14:32.720 --> 14:40.480]  believe about the people in DC. Why would you do that? The key is to understand what is really
[14:40.480 --> 14:46.240]  happening, not what you're being told is happening. When it comes to DC on virtually any subject you
[14:46.240 --> 14:52.080]  can think of, there is the story you're being told and then there is the truth. Perhaps the
[14:52.080 --> 14:58.240]  most egregious example of the difference between what DC tells the American people and the truth
[14:58.240 --> 15:03.760]  is that ordinary hardworking Americans owe income tax. That income tax has been imposed on ordinary
[15:03.760 --> 15:11.360]  Americans. And to be clear, they know the truth. By that I don't mean low-level players know the
[15:11.360 --> 15:16.480]  truth but certainly those at the top of the food chain do. How do I know that? In income tax
[15:17.200 --> 15:24.400]  I provide all the primary sources for you to completely understand what the law really says
[15:24.400 --> 15:32.640]  as opposed to what you've been told the law says. Today I'm only going to touch on two aspects that
[15:32.640 --> 15:40.880]  prove the Treasury Department knows the truth and steals your money through fraud. It may surprise
[15:40.960 --> 15:45.680]  you that nowhere in the tax code or the regulations does it tell the American people
[15:45.680 --> 15:53.760]  who is to file a Form 1040. Think about that. In thousands of pages of income tax statutes
[15:53.760 --> 15:59.760]  enacted into law by Congress there is not a single mention of who is to submit a 1040 to the government.
[16:00.640 --> 16:06.960]  Because the regs are far more voluminous than statutes, in tens of thousands of pages of
[16:06.960 --> 16:13.040]  regulations who is to file a 1040 is never mentioned. Doesn't that seem odd to you?
[16:13.920 --> 16:18.160]  It's not as odd as you may think. Allow me to explain. When these legally controlling
[16:18.160 --> 16:24.160]  documents were written there was no internet. In pre-internet days, while statutes and regs
[16:24.160 --> 16:29.520]  could often be found in your local government's main public library, finding Treasury decisions
[16:29.520 --> 16:36.320]  required you to go to a major law library and know your way around the place. I'd guess that perhaps
[16:37.440 --> 16:42.960]  one one hundredth of one percent of the American people who are not attorneys or work for one have
[16:42.960 --> 16:49.360]  set foot in a law library. In other words, if you were the government looking for a place to hide
[16:49.360 --> 16:54.400]  a truth from the American people, putting that truth in Treasury decisions that could only be
[16:54.400 --> 17:01.280]  found in law libraries and even then only if you knew what you were looking for would be the perfect
[17:01.280 --> 17:07.680]  hiding place. And that is exactly what the Treasury Department did. They made no mention
[17:07.680 --> 17:14.000]  of who is to use a form 1040 in the statutes or the regulations, which even in pre-internet days
[17:14.000 --> 17:19.200]  were relatively easy to find. Instead, putting that information in documents that were only available
[17:19.200 --> 17:28.080]  within buildings, not one in a hundred thousand Americans would ever walk into. So why do nine
[17:28.080 --> 17:33.040]  Treasury decisions say a 1040 is to be used by non-resident aliens with US source income,
[17:34.160 --> 17:40.960]  but not a single one designates you as someone who should use a 1040? Simple, because the law
[17:40.960 --> 17:45.840]  does not impose income tax on American citizens living and working in the states of the union
[17:45.840 --> 17:53.520]  earning his or her domestic income, period. You were simply told it does and you blindly believe
[17:53.520 --> 17:59.360]  it. The government's income tax narrative is basically the legal version of the government's
[17:59.360 --> 18:04.160]  claim that if you got vaccinated you wouldn't get infected with SARS-CoV-2 or infect others.
[18:04.880 --> 18:11.280]  It's only believable until you look at the facts. In the case of income tax, looking at the facts
[18:11.280 --> 18:19.440]  means having a look at what the law really says, which is what I guide you through in income tax
[18:19.440 --> 18:24.800]  shattering the mess. I said I was going to touch on two issues today showing the government knows
[18:24.800 --> 18:30.800]  the truth and is willing and intentionally stealing from every American who hasn't read the law for
[18:30.800 --> 18:38.000]  themselves, which sadly is most of them. In order to address the second point, I need to tell you
[18:38.000 --> 18:47.040]  upon whom the US income tax has been imposed and who has been made libel, which when it comes to
[18:47.040 --> 18:53.920]  income tax are not synonymous. Are you ready? The income tax has been imposed on three what the law
[18:53.920 --> 19:00.720]  calls classes of persons and a fourth class has been made libel to pay the tax owed by the first
[19:00.720 --> 19:05.680]  three classes under certain circumstances. The three classes upon whom the tax has been imposed
[19:05.680 --> 19:11.600]  are non-resident aliens with US source income, which of course dovetails perfectly with the
[19:11.600 --> 19:16.480]  nine treasury decisions saying non-resident aliens with US source income are to file a form 1040.
[19:17.280 --> 19:24.160]  Foreign corporations with US source income and third US citizens living abroad with foreign
[19:24.160 --> 19:31.760]  earned income. That's it. That's the only three classes of persons upon whom the income tax has
[19:31.760 --> 19:37.520]  been imposed. The fourth class, which is the person made libel to pay the tax of non-resident
[19:37.520 --> 19:43.520]  aliens and foreign corporations under certain circumstances is US citizens or domestic corporations
[19:43.520 --> 19:52.000]  who have possession of US source income belonging to a foreign person. A US citizen or domestic
[19:52.000 --> 19:57.680]  corporation who has possession of US source income belonging to a foreign person known in tax law as
[19:57.680 --> 20:03.760]  a US person is required to withhold and pay over to the government the non-resident alien or foreign
[20:03.760 --> 20:12.240]  corporations US income tax before the US source income leaves the US. A moment ago I said the US
[20:12.240 --> 20:18.480]  person has been made libel for the foreign person's US income tax under certain circumstances.
[20:19.200 --> 20:25.920]  What are those circumstances? Simple. The US person has possession of the foreign person's US source
[20:25.920 --> 20:32.800]  income, is ready to send it to its owner in their foreign country, and the foreign person has not
[20:32.800 --> 20:39.680]  notified the US person that he, she, or it has filed a US tax return and paid the US tax.
[20:39.680 --> 20:45.200]  If the foreign owner hasn't paid the US income tax before it's time for the money to move offshore,
[20:45.920 --> 20:50.960]  the US person is required to withhold the tax and pay it over to the government before sending the
[20:50.960 --> 20:57.600]  money offshore. Now that you understand who income tax has been imposed upon and who has been made
[20:57.600 --> 21:03.600]  libel, I can share the second point that proves the government knows exactly what it's doing
[21:04.240 --> 21:11.040]  when it steals from you by committing fraud. The modern income tax was enacted into law
[21:11.040 --> 21:18.240]  in 1913. The first regulations were promulgated to clarify and enforce those statutes the same year.
[21:19.200 --> 21:24.000]  In other words, as I'm recording this, the Treasury Department has been creating regulations by which
[21:24.000 --> 21:31.760]  to clarify and enforce income tax law for 110 years. For 110 years those regulations have been
[21:31.760 --> 21:38.480]  written by legislative draftsmen at the Treasury Department. In that 110 year period not a single
[21:38.480 --> 21:45.120]  income tax regulation has ever been promulgated that enforces the income tax on anyone other than
[21:45.840 --> 21:50.640]  non-resident aliens and foreign corporations with US source income and US citizens living
[21:50.640 --> 22:00.720]  abroad with foreign earned income. Not one in 110 years. Riddle me this, if the tax was actually
[22:00.720 --> 22:04.720]  upon ordinary hard-working Americans, in other words, what you have believed your whole life,
[22:05.360 --> 22:10.080]  how is it that over 110 years not a single regulation enforces it on anyone other than
[22:10.080 --> 22:14.480]  non-resident aliens and foreign corporations with US source income and US citizens living
[22:14.480 --> 22:22.720]  abroad with foreign earned income? But more to the point, in order for thousands of legislative
[22:22.720 --> 22:29.760]  draftsmen working over 110 years to create regulations that only enforce the tax upon
[22:29.760 --> 22:34.160]  non-resident aliens and foreign corporations with US source income and US citizens living
[22:34.160 --> 22:39.680]  abroad with foreign earned income and never once enforce the tax on ordinary working Americans,
[22:40.560 --> 22:47.200]  generations of legislative draftsmen had to know where the constitutional guardrails are.
[22:48.080 --> 22:52.080]  They've all known what you'll discover in income tax shattering the mist.
[22:52.080 --> 22:59.840]  The Congress never imposed the income tax on you. No rational person could possibly believe
[22:59.840 --> 23:08.000]  generations of legislative draftsmen just kept making a single specific omission for 110 years
[23:09.280 --> 23:15.280]  by accident. And that single 110-year omission just happened to be the false narrative the
[23:15.280 --> 23:20.960]  government has been promoting for the last 60 years. Think of it this way, as the government
[23:20.960 --> 23:25.920]  has been engaged in massive propaganda to convince the American people the income tax applies to
[23:25.920 --> 23:33.360]  them, treasuries, legislative draftsmen, still did not write any regulations enforcing income
[23:33.360 --> 23:41.200]  tax on ordinary hard-working Americans. In short, the propaganda is a lie. The non-existence of any
[23:41.200 --> 23:48.400]  regulation supporting the propaganda tells you the truth. To put an even finer point on it,
[23:49.280 --> 23:55.280]  the most senior legislative draftsmen who are sitting at their desks in the Treasury Department
[23:56.080 --> 24:06.160]  right now know the truth because they also haven't drafted any regulations enforcing the
[24:06.160 --> 24:12.880]  income tax on me or you. Let's say a legislative draftsman has been with Treasury for 22 years.
[24:13.840 --> 24:18.400]  Why isn't he writing regs that enforce the income tax on U.S. citizens living and working in the
[24:18.400 --> 24:25.600]  States of the Union earning his or her own domestic income? Answer, because those who reach the highest
[24:25.600 --> 24:30.560]  levels within the Treasury Department know Congress has never imposed the income tax on ordinary
[24:30.560 --> 24:36.880]  working Americans, and enforcement regs can be written only for those upon whom the law has been
[24:36.880 --> 24:42.560]  imposed. I've mentioned before that I was naive when I wrote income tax shattering the myths,
[24:42.800 --> 24:47.520]  before I wrote it there was no comprehensive compendium laying out the statutes, regs,
[24:48.080 --> 24:53.200]  Treasury decisions, Treasury orders, internal IRS documents, and U.S. Supreme Court cases,
[24:53.200 --> 24:59.200]  all of which saying the same thing for 110 years, that the income tax has never been imposed on
[24:59.200 --> 25:06.000]  ordinary working Americans. I thought that once I put together the missing comprehensive compendium,
[25:06.000 --> 25:12.160]  the American people would swoop it up like hotcakes because who wants their hard-earned money stolen
[25:12.160 --> 25:19.920]  based on a scam? Like I said, I was naive. I had completely underestimated how effective the
[25:19.920 --> 25:26.080]  government's brainwashing of the American people had been. I also believe I had grossly underestimated
[25:26.080 --> 25:33.840]  how cowardly my fellow citizens are. As you can probably imagine, having to come to terms with
[25:33.840 --> 25:39.440]  how thoroughly my fellow citizens had allowed themselves to be brainwashed, and in conjunction
[25:39.440 --> 25:47.280]  with that how cowardly they had become, was a tough pill to swallow. After I realized how badly
[25:47.280 --> 25:52.800]  I had miscalculated who my fellow citizens are, my thought was the same as it is today.
[25:53.680 --> 25:59.840]  The founding fathers were willing to kill as many British soldiers as was necessary and risk their
[25:59.840 --> 26:06.720]  own lives to secure liberty and create a government that is constitutionally required to respect your
[26:06.720 --> 26:12.160]  rights. One of those rights is the right of property, the right to keep what you earn,
[26:12.160 --> 26:18.240]  and there is no income tax exception in the constitution, which is why the income tax has
[26:18.240 --> 26:25.760]  never and does not apply to you. In contrast to the heroic conduct of the founding generation,
[26:26.560 --> 26:34.640]  today the vast majority of my fellow citizens are afraid to read a book, literally afraid to read
[26:34.640 --> 26:43.040]  a book, as well as being afraid to just follow the law. They'd rather stick their heads in the sand
[26:43.040 --> 26:51.200]  out of cowardice and allow themselves to get raped by the government, rather than learn what the law
[26:51.760 --> 27:00.240]  says and follow it. I haven't filed a tax return or paid a penny of income tax in 30 years, and here
[27:00.240 --> 27:09.200]  I sit having this discussion with you. How did I do that? Simple. I learned what the law says,
[27:10.080 --> 27:16.960]  and I began following it. Hundreds of thousands of your fellow citizens have safely left the
[27:16.960 --> 27:24.560]  income tax behind. How did they do that? They learned what the law says and began following it.
[27:24.560 --> 27:31.120]  Are you detecting a theme? Clearly, with the extent to which the American people have allowed
[27:31.120 --> 27:38.160]  themselves to be brainwashed and the cowardice, income tax shattering the mess is not for everyone.
[27:38.960 --> 27:47.360]  I'd like to share a quote with you by Carl Sagan from his book, The Demon Haunted World. In it,
[27:47.440 --> 27:55.760]  Sagan said, quote, one of the saddest lessons of history is this. If you've been bamboozled long
[27:55.760 --> 28:02.240]  enough, you tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no longer interested in finding
[28:02.240 --> 28:08.080]  out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge, even to
[28:08.080 --> 28:15.280]  ourselves, that we've been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it
[28:15.920 --> 28:26.640]  back. Close quote. Pretty sad, isn't it, that people are so weak? If you're not that sad, weak,
[28:26.640 --> 28:34.320]  cowardly American, if you're the opposite of that, if you have intelligence and courage, if you know
[28:34.320 --> 28:42.400]  the government is full of shit about, well, most everything, income tax shattering the mess may be
[28:43.040 --> 28:51.760]  the most enjoyable and disturbing and profound book you will ever read. Further, because I
[28:51.760 --> 28:56.960]  never want anyone to take my word for anything, income tax shattering the mess has a thorough
[28:56.960 --> 29:03.360]  table of authorities as well as a complete index, so you have the tools you need to verify the
[29:03.360 --> 29:09.280]  accuracy of everything you find in income tax shattering the mess. For a limited time,
[29:09.280 --> 29:15.840]  you can save 15% on income tax shattering the mess by entering the coupon code own it at
[29:15.840 --> 29:22.400]  checkout. I'll put the link and the code in the notes. Also, by purchasing income tax shattering
[29:22.400 --> 29:28.720]  the mess and other books of mine, such as Body Science, a groundbreaking book on human physiology
[29:28.720 --> 29:35.200]  that many readers have told me very likely saved their lives, you help me to continue to be here
[29:35.200 --> 29:41.360]  for you with these revealing, thought-provoking presentations. Please share this presentation
[29:41.360 --> 29:51.040]  with everyone, and thanks for being here. Take care.