Saturday, December 22, 2012

Tax Liability in the Law

I've been interacting with a Law professor from the Eastern United States, and he presents a case that individuals do have a liability for personal income taxes.  He is the first person with whom I have interacted that conveys both an expertise and motive to inform rather than punish and ridicule those who ask questions about the U. S. Tax system.  I have him talking to Larkin Rose and others in the leadership of the Tax Honesty Movement, and I hope to develop a casual relationship with all concerned going forward, so we can move the tax policy issue forward.

The issue of slavery seems to stump the professor on every sociological and historical level, but he will have time to examine our views and respond in total, as is appropriate.

I am working very hard to get back in school this coming semester with some ABA (American Bar Association) certified classes in mind, so as to set a formal foundation my law studies.

Friday, December 14, 2012

Tolstoy's Ideas Applied to School Shootings

Having spent a substantial portion of my adult life studying Mahatma Gandhi and his teacher, Leo Tolstoy, I'd like to weigh in on their mind relative to school shootings.  Tolstoy's book, The Slavery of Our Times, indicates that a whole host of violence throughout the world comes through tax slavery, which comes from legislation, which comes from the existence of governments.  Governments, according to Tolstoy, are a manifestation of the powerful ultimately threatening to murder those who do not obey to their liking.  This creates a kind of resentment that ripples all over the earth.  The way some children respond to this is to attack the government closest to them:  government schools.  Both Gandhi and Tolstoy seem to allow for people being armed to protect students in the short-term;  however, the longer solution is for governments to withdraw, allowing a kind of Amish social order, but with modern conveniences, consistent with Mahatma Gandhi's village republic concept.