Air Date: 02/12/2010
Born in Ohio and raised on a farm, Steve Hempfling learned about individual rights and the U.S. Constitution from his father who was active at preserving freedom. His father was in a coalition trying to stop “unbacked” paper currency from being issued during the John F. Kennedy Presidency. Steve Hempfling has a degree in electronic engineering and has worked at Texas Instruments and in the “Silicon Valley,” located in California. In 1985, he helped found Free Enterprise Society along with Verl Speer and George Hill. He put his money where his mouth was and challenged the IRS to prove it had a law to require Americans to file income tax returns. That was 27 years ago. Today, Steve Hempfling is the current Director of Free Enterprise Society ( www.welcome.freeenterprisesociety.com).
And the IRS….well they still have not proven that anyone is required to file and pay an income tax.
February 13th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
I listened to this webinar in hopes to find that the content was not so blatantly ignorant as the title/subject so implied.
“Voluntary compliance” and “voluntary assessment” are very accurate terms reflecting the intent of the IRC. Those upon whom Congress has imposed an “income” tax are provided with the means and methods to accurately report their “taxable income”. The means and methods provided significantly reduce the overhead that would otherwise be required for Congress to collect the tax imposed. The accounting is thusly a shifted burden from Congress to those upon whom it has imposed a tax.
The REAL issue that should be discussed is “WHAT IS INCOME?”. This entire webinar (phone discussion between two people) completely and totally missed this point entirely… obviously the discussion was predicated on the premise that “income” means “all that comes in”. This has been proven incorrect in the United States Supreme Court. I highly suggest the very uninformed contributors to this webinar further their study with regard to the NATURE of the “income” tax instead of focusing on misinformation that avoids the real point altogether.
Mr. Hempfling, there is nothing to prove “wrong” with regard to the constitutionality of the “income” tax. What must be addressed is the rampant ignorance as its proper object of application. The IRS cannot provide these answers because they exist to assist TAXPAYERS in meeting their tax obligations, not nontaxpayers in understanding the nature of the object of the Title 26 code.
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:44 pm
Look up the court case of Robert Laurance, his lawer was Oscur Stilley, Priora, Ill. 2006, income tax case. Robert a GM worker told the company to stop taking out his taxes, this was 1998. 2006 the dob and irs contacted Robert and wanted to take him to court. He asked Oscur Stilley to represent him. Oscur sent the Irs and Dob a d discovery form on Friday. Monday morning both depts cancelled the case. Why? The DOB in the upper right hand corner is illegal. The paper Act of 1986 says an individual does not have to give personal information unless the dob number is legal. If the case went forward, the irs and dob would have lost and the hoax would have ended. Look it up for your self.