Let Irwin Schiff Die With His Family Not In Prison
Be sure to check out JJ MacNab’s critical comments on this piece. She points out that there is quite a bit of nonsense in the Alex Jones interview. JJ has focused a lot of attention on what is called the “sovereign citizen” movement, a pretty disturbing phenomenon. Although the Schiffs, father and son, are not advocates of violence the flood of frivolous filings unleashed by Irwin’s notions sometimes threatens to swamp the system. Just as a country goes to war with the army it has, it funds its legitimate operations with the tax system that it has. The main reason Irwin’s ideas are persuasive is because they support a notion that many people would like to be true. They really don’t stand up to serious scrutiny and I don’t think most of the believers apply any scrutiny to them. Peter Schiff seems to be a smart guy and an independent thinker, but, you know, it’s his dad, so I’m inclined to give him a pass.
Church Attendance Held Against Under Armour Exec In Tax Domicile Case
They are holding it against him that when he happened to be in Maryland, he went to church – the same church he had gone to while he was living in Baltimore full time. Thankfully it does not indicate Mr. McDermoond’s religion, but let’s just hypothesize that he is Catholic. Back in parochial school, they told us we had to go to Mass every Sunday, no matter where in the world we were. It takes a lot to change your domicile, but changing your religion is not a requirement, so Mr. McDermond’s church attendance should not have been held against him.
I hypothesized Catholic, because I would think that in Maryland, that thought might have crossed somebody’s mind. Maryland was the only colony founded for Catholics originally. The only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence was from Maryland. The catechism we had in parochial school was the Baltimore Catechism. All that and these judges don’t get that somebody might go to church, wherever he happened to be.
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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.