Cheer Up! It Could Be Worse! by Bob Bauman

Cheer Up! It Could Be Worse!

by Bob Bauman
The Sovereign Society

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That headline is an old saying, to which the traditional reply is: "Sure enough. I cheered up and it did get worse."

But these days, I am not sure how much worse it can get.
In the last 14 years here at the Sovereign Society I have had the sad duty to chronicle and warn about the Leviathan state’s ferocious war against free market economics, and especially against your freedom to bank, invest and do business offshore.

This unrelenting war has been led by the leftist Democratic Party in the U.S., including President Barack Obama, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the European Union, the Organization for Community and Economic Development (OECD) and its Financial Action Task Force (FATF), as well as the United Nations.
Each of these big spending, high taxers, for their own, and for common tax hungry reasons, has joined in a coordinated attempt to crush offshore financial havens which they see as nothing more than centers for massive tax evasion.



Their attacks have reached the frenzy level in the last year or two as the worldwide recession has reduced tax revenues and in America the deficit and national debt have become hot political issues.
Looking for more tax monies President Obama (he of the trillion dollar deficits) and his radical left allies in the U.S. Congress, led by U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich), and aided and abetted by the IRS, are constantly devising new ways to curb offshore financial activity and abolish financial privacy.

To wit:
1) IRS Pre-Crime Plans
In remarks to the National Press Club on April 6th, our old friend, IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, revealed a startling "look forward" plan in which all of the information you use in preparing your annual IRS Form 1040 (W2, 1099, mortgage and bank interest) would be submitted automatically to the IRS every day in real time throughout the year.

IRS bureaucrats with this expanded snooping power and new sc-fi technology want to audit your financial activity on a daily basis. After a massive upgrade in technology, Shulman insisted the IRS would be able to "pre-calculate" what the IRS expects it should receive from you in taxes and reject any return that doesn't comply with its pre-determination.

This claim from a bloated agency that over 20 years has spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on its multiple inconsistent computer systems that still don’t work!
If you wish to know how this nutty idea might be applied, check out the alarming movie Minority Report, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick.
In the movie, set in the year 2054, a specialized U.S. government "pre-crime" police force sees into the future and stops criminals in their tracks, arresting them before they commit a crime; sometimes before they even think about committing a crime.

When I saw the movie I hopefully thought: "It can’t happen here."
Wrong again, Bob! It already has.

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