Also for more background info concerning Hovind's tax case, check out the links at the very end of Peter's posting. As much as this case fascinates me and the obvious connection to the Sovereign Movement, I haven't been able to give it the "coverage" it deserves.
If you spend some time on the internet you will find that there are many theories as to why the common belief that most people in this country who work and earn beyond an insubstantial amount of income are required to file income tax returns are mistaken. Irwin Schiff has a fairly elaborate explanation that shows how most of us are deceived into filing tax returns that are not really required. Like Kent Hovind, Irwin Schiff is in federal prison.
Here is where Ernie and I differ, Ernie believes that at least some of those people are right, that there are ways in which our government is fundamentally invalid. He urges compliance merely as a practical matter. I have yet to find an argument of the Schiff variety at all persuasive and it is not for lack of understanding or study.
Kent Hovind has been talking to a lot of people lately and has been making the argument that the crime of structuring that he was convicted of (systematically dealing in amounts of cash less than $10,000 to avoid reporting requirements) were really motivated to silence him in his quest to show that evolution is bad science. My inference is that the reason Kent got in so much trouble on the structuring was related to the other counts of his indictment that involved paying the employees at a Dinosaur theme park in cash and referring to them as "missionaries" rather than withholding taxes and filing the appropriate forms. Ernie agrees that it was a bad idea for Kent to do that, but still believes that the federals government's prosecution of Kent has a religious basis.
We Are The Future Generations: Ernie Land Challenges Common Law Theorists And Others To Make Kent Hovind A Test Case
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