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On The Basis Of Sex – About That Pentagon Computer

On The Basis Of Sex – About That Pentagon Computer

At any rate, when it comes to primary evidence I have James Bozarth who is portrayed as having come up with the idea, who indicates he never heard anything about it.  And I have added to that.  Richard Stone is listed as one of the attorneys on the brief going up to the Supreme Court.  He wrote to me:

Sorry to disappoint, but a draft of the cert petition came to me in a neat package from the Tax Division. My job was to recommend to The S.G. Whether or not to file and to rewrite the draft. I would not have been involved in the gathering of information and have no recollection of the computer use.

That does not nail it, but I think that if Appendix E had represented a technological watershed like the breaking of Enigma, there would have been some scuttlebutt about it.

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Sometimes You Crack The Code And Sometimes The Code Cracks You

Sometimes You Crack The Code And Sometimes The Code Cracks You

The conspiracy that Mr. Hendrickson alleges is mind-boggling and slightly bizarre.  The income tax is very narrow, but key elements of the executive and judicial branches pretend otherwise.  The IRS knows that it is hoodwinking most people so it will give the money back to just about everybody that asks for it.  It’s kind of like the technology charge that my managing partner had us implement for a while.

The explanation that I think is more probable, that Mr. Hendrickson thinks is preposterous, is that underfunding, aging technology and declining headcount have crippled the IRS enforcement capacity and that there is a lot that will get by that should not get by.

What you might want to consider is when it is that poor enforcement makes it so that the income tax is, in effect if not principle, voluntary.

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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.