house. i think you may be right on this one. congress has the power of the purse, they can dut off the funding and if there is an agency that has gone rogue they can not fund. it i would be delighted if they would tell the irs they are defunded. pass the fair tax and repeal the 16th amendment and get rid of the irs. sounds great to me. thank you, guys. we will have you back. a new york synagogue calling for the free release of kidnapped american teens. the bottom of the bill board hash tag bring back our boys. why isn t the kidnapping a bigger deal on our government. why isn t the first lady tweeting bring back our boys. female announcer: time is running out to get the hottest deal
its legitimacy and that the highest police authority they had to answer to was the local sheriff. who would call up posses if need be. so-called common law, which conveniently they created for themselves. they refused to pay income taxes mostly, which the group believed xused solely to loot and plunder the wealth produced by the sovereign individual. groups like this, which were sometimes called the sovereign citizens movement, claimed that the federal reserve and the 16th amendment to the constitution, which created the income tax, were illegal, and they often used violence or the threat of violence to back up their aebt government anti-tax beliefs. the movement of attracted a small following, and family forms were being foreclosed by the thousands. you may be oepd old enough to remember the farm aid benefits back then. the sovereign citizens movement exploited the fears of those
today, the fair tax act of 2013 lives on. it would also abolish the irs, the income tax, and repeal the 16th amendment that allows for the income tax in the first place. in other words, good-bye to the last hundred years of american governance. that, however, is an uphill battle, even for an empowered right wing. so instead of getting rid of the irs, republicans are very successfully hollowed out and hamstrung the agency. george w. bush did his part by slashing the number of lawyers who audited wealthy americans. today s republicans are picking up right where he left off. the house subcommittee last year pushed to cut the irs budget by 24%, despite the warnings the cuts would devastate the agency. and even though they didn t get their 24% cut, in the bipartisan deal passed late last year, the agency s budget will be $950 million less than it was in 2010. but conservatives don t just go
2003. in 2005, in 2007, and 2011. today, the fair tax act of 2013 lives on. it would also abolish the irs, the income tax, and repeal the 16th amendment that allows for the income tax in the first place. in other words, good-bye to the last hundred years of american governance. that, however, is an uphill battle, even for an empowered right wing. so instead of getting rid of the irs, republicans are very successfully hollowed out and hamstrung the agency. george w. bush did his part by slashing the number of lawyers who audited wealthy americans. today s republicans are picking up right where he left off. the house subcommittee last year pushed to cut the irs budget by 24%, despite the warnings the cuts would devastate the agency. and even though they didn t get their 24% cut, in the bipartisan deal passed late last year, the agency s budget will be $950 million less than it was in
america. we made a 30 minute movie about the irs targeting. why that can happen with the current tax coat and the bureaucracy that lies behind the irs. and talks to people action to say we need real reform which actually includes something as big as repealing the 16th amendment. we we are tired of tinkering around the edges. right now tonight across america people are educating their friends and their neighbors and their families and their own homes with our movie. the tea party express, give me the update. well, i think the tea party movement started off as you pointed out as a noisy protest movement. but, once scott brown got elected to massachusetts. it demonstrated the principle point of the tea party express is, if you want to change the policies in washington, you have to change the players. so, we are actually starting our ninth national bus tour this saturday in fort meyers, florida. we re going to be going to, i think, 15 states.