I guess that just leaves Death...

Stop the presses people, there is an attorney in the great state of Looooosiana who is a man after Clarince T's own heart. A true patriot and Constitutional originalist, Tom Cryer has taken on the IRS and won (at least the first round).

"The jury in U.S. District Court in Louisiana voted 12-0 to find Cryer, of Shreveport, not guilty of failure to file income taxes for two years. He had been indicted in 2006 on charges of failing to pay $73,000 to the IRS in 2000 and 2001. The next step in his personal case will be up to the IRS and prosecutors, if they choose to continue the issue, he said. "

Mr. Cryer's argument is simple. He basically argues that our federal income tax scheme rests on very shaky Constitutional ground, and that the current definition of "income" is fundamentally flawed.

Essentially, he argued that income is not necessarily any money that comes to a person, but rather categories such as profit and interest. He said the free exchange of labor for compensation has been upheld as a right by the Supreme Court, but that doesn't necessarily make the compensation income. If ever such an argument were to be presented widely, Cryer said, the income to the federal government would plummet. But not to worry, he said, the expenses could be reduced equally by eliminating programs, departments and agencies that also have no foundation in the Constitution.

"The Founding Fathers intentionally restricted the taxing powers of the new federal government as a measure of restraint on its size. By exceeding that limited taxing authority the federal government has been able to obtain resources beyond its intended reach, and that money has enabled the federal government to exceed its authority," he said.

For example, he said, the Constitution does not empower the federal government to regulate education, or employment, and agriculture, yet it does so.

As you are all aware, I have long been a champion of originalism, strict constructionistics, and the 1789 Rule. As my own job is solidly nestled within the nurturing womb of Article III, I have no problem supporting a slash-and-burn campaign against those "government" programs that have no Constitutional foundation for their existence.

Agriculture, Education, Labor, "Social Services", phooey!

Let them all fall by the wayside, I say. People need to sink or swim on their own. Did Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin need social programs to use as a stepping stone to greatness? I think not, they were smart enough to be born into money. Anyone without the sense to do the same doesn't get any sympathy from me.

He warned without a restoration of constitutional basics, the nation is lost.

"Read your Constitution and you will see that the federal role does not include ANY authority to regulate or tax any citizen directly and that WE expressly reserved the right to rule and govern ourselves as States, not as mere political subdivisions," his website says.

Amen, my brother in arms, Amen.