Alex Jones pisses off tax denier listeners

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Alex Jones pisses off tax denier listeners

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How dare he read a commercial for tax lawyers? Communist!
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It's a paid commercial for a supposed tax settlement service. In fact, the revenue laws enable the IRS to "compromise" a tax claim when certain conditions can be met, 26 USC §7122. There's not a lot a leverage on the part of most taxpayers in this; they'd pretty much have to set out all their financial data and satisfy the IRS that this compromise was probably better than the IRS's outcome at the end of litigation. This "service" being advertised plays (unnecessary) go-between for a chunk of the taxpayer's money.
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Evil Squirrel Overlord wrote:How dare he read a commercial for tax lawyers? Communist!
Yup. Here's one response:
Date: Jun 7, 2009 8:08 PM
Subject: This should make you physically nauseous.

Body: After all of the Tax Truth efforts that AJ has been involved in, hearing this commerical makes me physically nauseous. The guy who predicted 911, who shuns the unlawful nature of the income tax, who just plain and simply knows better. Is now helping to collect for the IRS. I don't know whether or not to laugh, cry, or vomit. Don't blindly accept this or think that this is ok, just because your an AJ fan, if your an AJ fan you should be just as pissed off as I am about this. This is an insult to my intelligence, it should be an insult to yours too. Irwin Schiff said something once I will never forget. People either pay the Income Tax out of fear or ignorance. I think that's perfectly fine, people can pay or not pay for whatever reasons. But if you know that the system is an inherently corrupted, and unlawful system. Then helping the IRS collect money from your listeners, and then using fear tactics to boot. Well that's just about the most filfthy thing that I can imagine.

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That guy has a point. If you believe that the IRS is really as evil as Mr. Jones has claimed that it is, then helping them collect via a commercial would be tantamount to joining forces with evil. At least they could be consistent in their lunacy.
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Demosthenes wrote:
just because your an AJ fan, if your an AJ fan
Just because my what is an AJ fan?

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Even his fans probably know which way the political wind is blowing, Hendrickson is being taken down by the Department of Justice, he will soon be going through a living hell, and it's time for his followers try and avoid the same fate.

I'm sure there are reasonably-priced tax resolution law firms. But what I see the most, are the "offers in compromise" sales pitch, of which there are a very small percentage accepted as shown in the commercials. "We owed $2 million, and settled for $50K". Sure. The high figure probably involves full disclosure of all records, profits, etc., with all taxes, interest, penalties figured in. The compromise comes after a long process, when the relevant department determines any other option than settlement would not be in the interest of the government. But if a tax protester has followed Hendrickson's method, with years of tax evasion, I can't imagine a sympathetic Revenue Officer granting an easy way out.
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Does anyone else think that Alex Jones should change his stage name to "Ajax?" It has his initials and rhymes with ex-lax.
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