Income Tax is Theft

05/11/19 • 59 min

Special episode with Keith as a guest on the Unsafe Space show with host Carter Laren. We discussed the income tax, and explain why it is theft of rightfully owned property. The Constitutional implications are covered, including the 1895 Supreme Court majority opinion that income tax was unconstitutional, and the 16th Amendment when the States delegated the new power to impose income taxation. The history of the income tax is discussed for the first two short income taxes and the one imposed from 1913 through today. The biggest outlays the central government uses the tax money for is covered. We end with a way the people can end this theft of their lawfully owned property with an amendment to the Constitution using a Convention of the States held under Article V of the Constitution.

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Syria Withdraw and Middle East Wars

Trump's December 2018 Syria full withdraw order and the Middle East wars since George Bush Sr. are discussed with guest Eduardo Vidal. Ed is the co-host of the Concrete Conservatives talk show on WSQF FM Key Biscayne/Miami and online, and is the corporate lawyer for a software firm. We talk about the multitude of excuses used to conduct the war in Syria and touch on a few of the many Middle East wars the US has engaged in over the last two decades. The Constitution and legislation with which Congress unconstitutionally delegated their power to declare war to the President are covered.
Keith rants a bit about the dismal failures of the many US interventions in the Middle East. The US military is excellent when allowed to win a fight. But the track record of what happens next with installing new governments is dismal.
A potential solution of a Constitution change proposed by the States in an Article V Convention for proposing Amendments is considered. An amendment could eliminate most future U.S. military actions in the Middle East by:
(1) reminding the government that Congress is the only branch with the expressly delegated power to declare war, and
(2) explicitly denying the President the power to send armed forces into battle without a Congressional declaration of war.
Such an amendment falls under the Convention of States Action topic of limiting the power and jurisdiction of the Federal government, putting it back to what the founders intended. It also falls into the fiscal responsibility topic.
The US military should not be world's police force, spending trillions of dollars protecting other countries. It should not overthrow other governments because DC politicians prefer some different form of government. Not our job, not what the founders wanted, and it is ludicrously expensive.

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Declaration of Independence

This Independence Day celebration episode starts with a 2 minute group recitation of an abridged version of the Declaration of Independence.
It was done using all original wording, skipping some phrases, to create a quick, easy to understand version intended to get across the essence of what the founders said on July 4, 1776. Two minutes of dedicated time and most people should understand the gist of it.
The Declaration recital is followed by Keith discussing what the Declaration means, its history, why the founders dissolved all ties with the King of England in 1776, and its Natural Law justification.
The episode closes with noting that some of the reasons the founders abolished their form of government and created a new one apply today. As the Declaration says, "let facts be submitted to a candid world".
Does the Declaration's listed grievance "He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance" sound familiar? Keith notes he doesn't like that either.
The founders provided a mechanism for the people, through their States, to alter the form of government using Article V of the Constitution. Please see https://conventionofstates.com/?ref=32551 for how the people can return D.C. to the limited and expressly delegated roles the founders intended when they wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson altered his form of government, and in doing so showed us how and why we should do so too.