A joyous day for liberty http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007707130321A Shreveport attorney who has challenged the government for years on the legality of filing federal income taxes has been acquitted on charges he failed to file returns.
A federal jury unanimously found Tommy Cryer not guilty this week on two misdemeanor counts of failure to file.
And according to Cryer, the prosecution dismissed two felony charges of tax evasion prior to trial.
Attempts by The Times on Thursday to reach U.S. Attorney Donald Washington or Bill Flanagan, first assistant U.S. attorney, were not successful. Calls made to the two were not immediately returned.
"The court could not find a law that makes me liable or makes my revenues taxable," Cryer said. "The Supreme Court has ruled that the government cannot impose an income tax on anything but the profits and gains. When you work for someone you give your service and labor in exchange for money, so everything you make is not profit or gain. You put something into it."
Cryer was indicted last year on two counts of tax evasion. The indictment alleged he evaded payment of $73,000 in income tax to the Internal Revenue Service during 2000 and 2001.
Cryer created a trust listing himself as the trustee, and received payments of dividends, interest and stock income to that trust, according to the indictment. He also was accused of concealing his receipt of the sources of income from the IRS by failing to file a tax return on behalf of that trust.
"I determined that my personal earnings were not 100 percent profits, some were income," Cryer said. "I refuse to file, I refuse to pay unless they can show me I have a lawful reason to pay."
"What I earned was my own personal labor. I am giving something in exchange. I'm giving my property and I don't belong to anyone else."
Cryer says he stopped filing returns more than 10 years ago after he investigated claims that income tax was a sham. He contends the law doesn't actually tax personal earning.
You know what this means folks? The battle is finally coming to a close with this important ruling. No more will the people be blindly taxed for everything that they earn, and no more will we slave away for 120 days a year to pay for our taxes.
You heard me right folks, according to the
http://taxfoundation.org">Tax Foundation the average American works 120 days out of the year (roughly 1/3 of the total year) just to pay for their taxes. This is full 15 days longer than we work to pay for food, clothing, and housing combined.
This could potentially lead to the average citizen nearly doubling their economic power within the market and to give them more of a voice in our government as well. Economic freedom is a necessary precondition to political freedom as without economic power we have no say in our government or how our lives are run, or even to an extent what products and companies we support. With additional economic power, the people will no longer be forced to buy the cheapest product. The poorest among us will be capable of these decisions and force irresponsible businesses out of the market if they do not shape up and change their ways. The poorest among us could afford healthier nutrition, and even secondary education. It is possible to 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps' as it were, and the government has prevented this for too long.
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