[Rhodes22-list] Flat Tax Anyone?

[Robert Skinner]

Congratulations - on your courage and success 
in dealing with the tax gestapo.  They can make
your life a living hell without establishing a 
case before acting.  Even a murder has more 
more of an edge in presumption.

/Robert Skinner

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Just to add some perspective to this taxation discussion. Eight years ago  or
> so the IRS informed me that I owed them almost $27,000.00. I hired an
> attorney to fight for my rights and the whimp simply wanted to settle with the  IRS
> for a lesser amount. I fired his ass and took on the IRS by myself. It was
> not fun. They attached to my bank accounts, put a lien on my house and
> threatened me with jail. We ended up going to arbitration and I won.  They got not one
> cent more than I had already paid. Again, it was not a pleasant  experience,
> but I had the right to fight for what I thought was legally correct.
> Personally it was embarrassing to have my name show up in the paper with tax  liens
> and my checks started bouncing when they froze my bank accounts. No sir,  not
> much fun.
> 
> Rummy