5-05-03
Schulz to America: Stop Withholding
Workers’
Rights Being Extolled
Company’s Resistance May Be Due to “Cooked Books”
Hundreds of workers and employers continue to flock to meetings on Bob
Schulz’s cross-country speaking tour as We The People begins to organize
Americans to exercise their legal rights and stop withholding of all taxes
on their wages and salaries.
Schulz, Chairman of We The People, has now spoken to well over two thousand
people as part of “Operation Stop Withholding” and continues to be greeted
by appreciative and attentive audiences everywhere.
Schulz’s tour continues tomorrow with several stops in Oregon before moving
on to Washington state and then south through Utah and Colorado before
heading east.
Click here to see details of the schedule.
This past week Schulz was
in California
appearing at meetings in Irvine, Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento, Santa Cruz
and San Jose before heading to Reno, Nevada for a meeting yesterday.
Click here
to see more photos from some of these meetings.
Schulz has been trying to
maximize use of his limited free time by doing office work and legal
research from his vehicle as he travels. The WTP van is equipped with an A/C
power converter and a digital wireless internet connection that allows
Schulz, with his cell phone and portable printer, to operate a
fully-functional, virtual office while on the road.
At
each meeting, Schulz reads a letter of constructive notice sent to the
Commissioner and the Chief of the Criminal Investigation Division at IRS’
headquarters in DC. He also reads a letter sent to the local IRS and DOJ offices for each city he appears in. The notices
request that IRS and
DOJ attend the Stop Withholding meetings and inform Schulz if anything he is
saying is misleading or incorrect. To date, no attendee has identified
them self as being from either IRS
or DOJ and no
representative of the government has contacted Schulz to question either
the content or the validity of the Stop Withholding termination forms or
other claims WTP is making about the law.
In his
talks, Schulz thoroughly reviews the WTP Foundation’s four year process of
Petitioning for Redress of Grievances that has resulted in the People being
forced to take the next “appropriate step” – i.e., “No Answers, NO Taxes.”
Schulz articulates a compelling case that regardless of the content or
meaning of the tax laws, the People have an unquestionable, constitutionally
guaranteed Right to withhold payment of taxes to the government until all
537 questions from the Truth-in-Taxation Hearing are officially answered by
the US government.
Schulz
remains adamant that the ability to enforce our Rights by retaining our
money until our grievances are redressed (remedied) is critical to the
future of this nation and our Constitution.
“If
the government infringes upon any of the unalienable Rights of the People
and the People do not have the ability to force the government to respond to
a proper Petition for a Redress of those Grievances, then the People, if
fact, do not have that Right,” said Schulz.“ A right that is not enforceable
is not a Right.”
Schulz
goes on to say, “Under our present circumstances, it is un-American to send
money to the federal government. Doing so only emboldens and encourages the
government to continue ignoring the People who have now Petitioned for a
Redress of Grievances related not only to the government’s abuse of its
taxing powers, but also its power to make war, its power to make money and
its police powers. The government must be forced to honor its constitutional
obligation to respond to proper Petitions for Redress. Retaining our money
until our grievances are redressed is the ONLY method of doing so without
disturbing the public tranquility.”
Anecdotal evidence being received by the WTP office indicates that
“Operation Stop Withholding” may be starting to take on a life of its own.
A
number of legal skirmishes between workers and employers are already
starting to spark up, including some that have already prompted legal
action. Examples include a major west coast technology employer whose
high-profile law firm is counseling their client employer to ignore a
worker’s legal request to cease withholding, improperly stating that the
employer can be held liable for the “unpaid” taxes of a worker and that the
employer is “required by law” to withhold. The law firm has failed to
cite any specific law or legal authority to back their specious claims.
Another case involves a group of 12 oil workers in Arkansas that recently
sought to terminate their withholding agreements (W-4s) en masse, by
submitting WTP Form #1 to their company. The company refused to terminate
withholding and even sent the workers’ forms to the IRS. In direct response, another group of 25 workers for the same
company filed the same termination forms. The workers have consulted with
counsel and are now preparing legal action against the employer. Hundreds
of other workers for the company are considering
joining in this action in
support of “worker’s rights.”
In yet another case, a large group of construction workers in New Hampshire
and Massachusetts is pressuring their employers to stop withholding, and
have now sued their union for failing to represent them and protect their
rights as their collective bargaining agreement requires.
Another case involves a major automobile manufacturer in Detroit that has
stopped withholding for several hundred of its employees.
And
yes – we are hearing daily about many individuals that have filed the forms
and their employers have, in fact, stopped all withholding – with no
questions asked.
In
short, it is clear that “Operation Stop Withholding” is starting to “take
root” and beginning to spread. The masses of workers that have toiled under
this unlawful and unconstitutional burden are beginning to learn what the
law really says and to resist this tyranny by defending their
rights, both as workers and as citizens. Operation Stop Withholding is
quickly gaining visibility as a “workers’ rights” issue.
We
have received evidence that some companies have been cheating on the
government and their investors by “cooking their books,” and that this is
the reason some companies are not being responsive to requests from
employees to terminate W-4 agreements and to stop withholding: they fear it
would draw unwanted attention from the IRS.
One prominent business owner in Orange County, California, via his corporate
attorney, admitted to one of his senior executives (who argued the law in
requesting the company to end withholding from his earnings), that the
worker was absolutely correct in his assessment of the law. The corporate
attorney said, however, that the company would never honor the employee’s
termination request because of fear it would draw unwanted attention from
the IRS and risk an
audit of the accounting books that the attorney admitted had been “cooked”
for years. In this case the employee left the company and started his own
business.
Employers, caught in the middle, are quickly learning that a little
knowledge about the law in the hands of workers can be a dangerous thing and
that there may soon be precious little legal “middle ground” to stand upon
between their workers and the IRS.
In the
end, the income tax may ultimately fail not because of the intricacies of
the tax fraud woven into tens of thousands of pages of law, but rather
because of two simple ideas that cannot be refuted by our government or
any corporation: 1) Workers have an unalienable Right to the fruits of
their labor, and 2) The government MUST answer our First Amendment
Petitions, i.e., No Answers, NO Taxes.
So as
it must be, it will be up to the People to save themselves from their own
government and the corporations of this nation that have aided and abetted
in the seizure of the Rights of the People. The quicker the People act, the
quicker the day of liberation will arrive.
WTP
encourages everyone to spread word of Operation Stop Withholding and about
the availability of the no-fee applications for the new WTP Legal Defense
Association.
Click Here
to see photos from the Schulz’s Stop Withholding meetings.
Click Here
to apply for the Legal Defense Association for no fee.
Click Here
to Access the Operation Stop Withholding meeting schedule.
DAY 21:
Click
Here for updated information on Gene Chapman’s death fast in
Austin, Texas to get the IRS to answer a single question: “What law makes
me liable to pay the income tax?”
Click here
to contact your Congressman and your local media.
Click
here for INSTRUCTIONS on how to apply for
membership in the WTP Legal Defense Association for NO cost.
Click
here to read the WTP-LDA Standard Agreement (.htm
format)
Click
here to see Schulz's nationwide meeting
schedule for Operation Stop Withholding.
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