The American Wisdom Series

Presents
Pamphlet #335

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No Answers, No Taxes.
"The Gloves Are Off.  Enough is Enough."

                 Bob Schulz, Chairman of We The People Foundation for
                 Constitutional Education today released a letter sent to his
                 regional IRS processing center, IRS Commissioner Rossotti,
                 President Bush, Speaker Hastert and Senate Majority Leader
                 Daschle declaring his total commitment to personally instigate
                 sufficient civil action across the nation to end the income tax as
                 we know it.

                 Schulz’s letter publicly proclaims and staunchly states that
                 after 45 years of willful compliance he now refuses to file
                 a tax return for 2001, 2002 and for all future years.

http://www.givemeliberty.org/Index.html

Schulz's Letter to the IRS:

 No Answers = No Taxes

                                                         Mr. Robert L. Schulz
                                                         2458 Ridge Road
                                                        Queensbury, New York 12804

                                                         June 17, 2002

 Mr. Charles O. Rossotti, Commissioner
 Internal Revenue Service
 1111 Constitution Ave. NW
 Washington, DC 20224

 Department of the Treasury
 Internal Revenue Service
 Andover, Massachusetts 05501

 Dear Sirs,

 I respectfully request that this statement, together with its seven attachments be included in and made a
 part of my individual file at the Internal Revenue Service.

 On April 15, 2002 I filed a Form 4868, "Application for Automatic Extension of Time to File U.S. Individual
 Income Tax Return," for the year 2001.

 This statement is submitted to you in lieu of a tax return (Form 1040) for the years 2001, 2002 and for all
 future years.

 Based on the information contained and referred to in Attachments 1-6, I believe the federal income tax to be
 fraudulent in its origin and illegal in its operation.

 Based on the information contained and referred to in Attachments 1-6, I believe the IRS lacks the legal
 authority to force employers to withhold the income tax from the paychecks of its employees or to force
 most Americans, including me, to file a tax return and to pay the income tax.

 I love my country, but based on the information contained and referred to in Attachments 1-6, I despise my
 government, which is promoting anarchy, rebellion, and lawlessness, which I oppose.

 I do not have to submit to any unconstitutional, illegal, unjust and uncivil law, in which case I choose to be
 civilly disobedient, defending my natural rights and obeying my Creator rather than my civil authorities.

 In doing so it is not the purpose of my opposition simply to resist the institution of government in general, but
 to specifically resist bad laws, bad acts, and bad government.

 I strongly oppose the "State Sovereignty" theology. The Creator is the only sovereign who has any Divine
 right; beyond that, the Creator has endowed the people with rights and has ordained power to rest with the
 people.

 Our Constitution is a strongly worded set of principles to govern the government, not the people.

 By the terms and provisions of the Constitution the People have not only formed their government and
 enabled the government to act in certain ways, they have purposely and markedly restricted and prohibited
 the government from acting in certain ways.

 In throwing off one government and designing for and instituting another, the founding fathers (in the founding
 document) gave written tribute to "Nature's God." They also wrote that all men are created equal and are
 endowed by their "Creator" with unalienable rights. They said the purpose of government was to
 secure/guarantee those rights -- i.e., to protect men, one from another -- deriving their powers from the
 consent of the governed. They wrote that they were relying on a "divine Providence."

 God was, in fact, a party to the Constitution if by "God" is meant the Being perfect in power, wisdom and
 goodness that men worship as their Creator.

 God was, in fact, a party to the Constitution if by "divine" is meant of, relating to, or proceeding from God.

 God was, in fact, a party to the Constitution if by "Providence" is meant God-conceived as the power
 sustaining and guiding human destiny.

 If the Creator, in fact, gratuitously provided, equipped and enriched the People with Rights (as the founding
 fathers agreed was the case), it follows that those Rights belong to the People and to the Creator. It follows
 that an affront to the Constitution (as when government attempts to violate an endowed Right) is an affront to
 the Creator.

 If our Rights come from the Creator, only the Creator can frustrate and defeat our Rights. As the founders
 said, a fundamental purpose of the Peoples' Constitution is to remind the government that it (the government)
 cannot trespass on the Rights of the Creator's People -- that is, that government cannot break off what God
 has put in place.

 An offense against the Constitution is an offense against the Creator.

 All individuals on American soil are party to the Constitution. The Constitution begins with the words, "We
 the People..."

 Neither the Government nor the Constitution gives the rights essential to Liberty and the pursuit of
 happiness. I claim them from a higher source -- my Creator -- He who is referred to in the founding
 document, otherwise known as the Declaration of Independence. They are not annexed to the People by
 paper and votes, but by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born
 with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power without taking our lives. In short,
 they are founded on the unchangeable maxims of reason and justice. It would be an insult on the Creator to
 say that he has given or allowed any man or body of men a right to tax my labor and to make me miserable.

 I, my wife, my children, my grandchildren, my friends and, indeed, all humanity belong in a state of nature,
 not of anarchy.

 We are bound by the laws of Nature's God, which I acknowledge as the rules of my conduct.

 The nature of my resistance is clear. It is not an act of anarchy or rebellion; rather it is an act of resistance
 to a government that is violating the purposes for which God -- through the People and the Constitution -- has
 ordained civil government.

 I account to my Creator for what I do.

 I chose to conduct myself in a manner in which I am not in rebellion to my Creator.

 I will maintain my strong petition to my Creator for the justness of my actions.

 Thus far I have pursued peaceful reconciliation and petition. It is the IRS, DOJ, and now the President and
 the Congress who terminated the discussions, refusing to respond to my petition for a redress of grievances,
 in violation of the 1st Amendment.

 I did not initiate this conflict. I have been fully committed to peaceful reconciliation and have pursued that
 course for nearly 4 consecutive years.

 I have had no desire for resistance, or violence, of any kind. Nevertheless, in the People's peaceful
 reconciliation attempts the People's petitions and appeals have been met with force, and in some instances
 with near military force.

 The defense of our homes, families, properties and possessions is a most important point to us.

 There is not the most distant thought of subverting the government or of hurting the interest of the people of
 America, but of defending my own rights and privileges from unjust encroachment.

 There was not the least desire of withdrawing my allegiance from the leaders of the branches until it became
 absolutely necessary -- and, indeed, it has been their own choice.

 You know that our cause is just.

 You know that we, the People, struggle for that freedom to which all men are entitled -- that we struggle
 against oppression, seizure, plunder, extortion and more than savage barbarity.

 I am not moved by any light or hasty suggestion of anger or revenge. Through every possible change of
 fortune I adhere to this determination.

 My property and happiness have been attacked. My self-defense against an aggressor government is
 righteous.

 My civil disobedience is for the cause of civil justice -- a righteous struggle, undertaken in defense of my
 property, my happiness and my family. It is to oppose the invasions of usurped power. I will bravely suffer
 present hardships and encounter present dangers, to secure the rights of humanity and the blessings of
 freedom, for generations yet unborn.

 It is my obligation, as a responsible citizen of this country, to set a proper value upon and defend to the
 utmost my just rights and the blessings of life. Without this personal commitment, a few unprincipled
 individuals would tyrannize over the People, and make the passive multitude the slaves of their power. Thus
 it is that civil disobedience is not only justifiable, but an indispensable duty to correct this wrong.

 It is upon these principles that I am resisting the IRS and will oppose force with force.

 I do not rebel. Mine is not a Rebellion. I do not seek to overthrow the government in order to place another in
 its place. I am not against government. I am against government that has gone bad or wrong. I seek only to
 have our government serve the people under bona fide law within the limitations of the Constitution.

 My purpose is a non-violent defense of my natural rights, which it is the business of civil government to
 protect, not to subvert, and the exercise of which it is the duty of civil government to enlarge, not to restrain.

 Man does not exist for the sake of government, but government is instituted for the sake of man.

 This principle of defense is not confined merely to one's person; it extends to his liberty and property: it is
 not confined merely to his own person; it extends to the persons of all those, to whom he bears a particular
 relation -- to his wife, his parent, his child, his neighbor. It extends to the person of every one who is in
 danger, to the liberty of every one whose liberty is unjustly and forcibly attacked.

 It becomes humanity as well as justice.

 The Constitution is becoming a dead letter.

 An arrogant, out-of-control and unaccountable government that has no respect for the precious liberties of
 every American citizen is destroying our sacred Bill of Rights.

 We the People have the right and the power to establish limits to the authority of our federal government.
 When government takes one step beyond those limits, it takes possession of a boundless field of authority,
 no longer capable of definition.

 There is a word for rulers unrestrained by law or constitutions, for usurpers of the people's sovereignty. That
 word is "Tyrant."

 There is a word for a system of government in which the rulers have unlimited power. That word is
 "Despotism."

 Government is the enemy of freedom. Unrestrained government is not the benefactor of the people. As
 Americans, we democratically elect our political representatives. But America is not a Democracy.
 Democracy is mob-rule. In a Democracy, 51% of the voting population can deny 49% of their fellow citizens
 their unalienable rights to life, liberty and property. That is not what our Creator and the founders intended for
 us when they wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and Bill of Rights over 200 years ago.

 In a Republic, such as we have in America, every one of our citizens -- regardless of his or her race, religion,
 political influence, social status, or economic station in life -- has unalienable, constitutionally protected
 rights that cannot be lawfully abridged by a power-hungry government. And it is those Americans who are
 most vulnerable to the abuses of democratic mob-rule and government tyranny who are most protected by
 our republican form of government.

 We remember those occasions in modern history when democratically elected governments have violated
 their citizen's most basic rights to life, liberty and property because a majority of the population found it
 acceptable.

 In America, there are only two things that stand between the people and government tyranny -- those are our
 Constitution and our will as a free people to protect and defend it.

 In America, the right to petition our government for redress of grievances is the basis of our liberty. Our
 founders explicitly recognized this right in the first amendment to our constitution -- for they understood that
 without it, we could not have a servant government whose power is defined and limited by the consent of the
 people.

 In America, the right to petition our government for a redress of grievances is an unalienable right. It derives
 from our faith in a supreme being - an ultimate moral authority from whom we gain our understanding of
 equality, justice and the rule of law. Implicit in our first amendment constitutional right to petition our
 government for a redress of grievances, is the government's absolute moral and legal obligation to respond
 honestly and completely to the people's petition.

 This is the essential cornerstone of Popular Sovereignty -- a government of the People, by the People and for
 the People.

 In 1791, the right to petition became the primary right of the People of the United States of America,
 expressed in the First Amendment to the federal Constitution.

 Some would now have us believe that our First Amendment right of petition is nothing more than a guarantee
 of free speech; that this vital constitutional protection - the very basis of our liberty - is simply a right to voice
 our grievances to the government. Some would try to convince us that We The People do not have the
 absolute right to an honest and complete response to our petition -- or the authority to demand that our
 government correct the abuses and violations of our liberties that resulted in our petition.

 What nonsense! This is dangerous talk to a free people. We will not listen to those who would denigrate our
 Constitution, and undermine the principles of liberty and justice that gave birth to our nation. At best they are
 imbeciles, and at worst they are tyrants -- or "sharing bedrooms" with tyrants.

 We must steel ourselves to this nonsense. We must harden our hearts to these false notions that
 government is God. Government has but one legitimate purpose -- to serve and protect all of the people
 equally. Government is not God. It is our servant. It is accountable to the People.

 The right to Petition for Redress of Grievances is the final protection -- the final, peaceful check and balance
 in our system of Constitutional government in which the government derives its limited powers from the
 consent of the sovereign people. This is the right which publicly reveals and reiterates for all, who is Master
 and who is Servant.

 The Citizens' Truth-In-Taxation Hearing was about truth. The hearing was about facts. We were there to
 protect and defend the truths that we hold to be self-evident. The hearing was about the future of our nation --
 one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

 The hearing was about the law and it was about what the People have allowed our government to become.

 But even more importantly, the hearing was about us -- we the People. Who we are and who we want to be.
 What kind of country do we want to leave to our children and future generations of Americans?

 Over two days, we heard the facts. We saw the law. We were able to judge the truth.

 We saw how our government has crafted and perpetuated the largest illusion and fraud ever witnessed on
 planet Earth. We learned the truth about a powerful central government that hates and fears personal
 freedom and individual responsibility, and sees popular sovereignty as a threat to its complete authority and
 control over our lives. What was proven conclusively is that the federal government -- like a thief in the night
 -- has subtly, over many years, stripped the American people of our liberty, our property, and in many cases,
 our very lives in order to protect and perpetuate a fraudulent, debt-based money system -- and the life-blood
 of that system -- the horribly unjust and unconstitutional personal income tax.

 The day has come. We are now forced to act on these truths. If the People fail to act, we will lose forever the
 chapter in human history when We The People reigned sovereign, and the chains of a written constitution
 bound our government.

 The most pernicious form of tyranny is that which disguises itself as a benefactor to its victims.

 Most people believe that the income tax system is legal and that the revenue from the tax is used in the
 public interest.

 However, there is now a substantial, conclusive body of evidence that proves that our income tax system
 represents the most pernicious form of tyranny: It is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated by government
 against the working men and women of America.

 It is unconstitutional in its origin, and abusive in every aspect of its operation.

 It uses intimidation, threat and coercion to deprive us of our lawfully acquired property. It resorts to morally
 reprehensible conduct in a persistent effort to divide the American people and promote envy, greed and
 irresponsible behavior in our society.

 The unlawful and unjust income tax system produces nothing but sorrow, distress and calamity and division
 in our society. It has been imposed on an unsuspecting people through deceptive and fraudulent means --
 outside of constitutional restraints.

 Our income tax holds people in servitude as the chattel of others. It forces the people to labor to pay off a
 never ending and always growing national debt to a cartel of private banks.

 The income tax is enforced as though payment was compulsory when, in fact, it is voluntary.

 For decades, a growing number of attorneys, CPAs, retired judges, former and present IRS officers,
 educators, experienced researchers, former and present congressmen, legislators, successful
 businesspeople and scores of ordinary, nonaligned citizens have been providing a substantial amount of
 extremely credible evidence that since 1913 the Judiciary has been cooperating with the Executive and
 Legislative branches in a collective attempt to deny the People their constitutionally protected rights and to
 deprive the People of a significant percentage of the fruits of their labor by unlawfully enforcing the IRS Code
 -- a code that has no basis in law and no legal authority.

 The evidence supports the now widely held belief that it was no coincidence that the Federal Reserve
 System -- a PRIVATELY OWNED banking cartel that is not controlled or even audited by our government --
 and the income tax were both imposed on the American people in 1913.

 The Federal Reserve System and the Internal Revenue Service were both created by the 16th Amendment to
 the United States Constitution. The Hearing included testimony, which proved that the 16th Amendment is a
 fraud: that it was not lawfully ratified by 3/4 of the States in 1913. And that as creations of the 16th
 Amendment, the Federal Reserve System and the IRS are not legitimate, constitutional operations of our
 government.

 The Federal Reserve System and the income tax are inextricably linked. The income tax was instituted to
 provide lender security and guaranteed profits to this highly secretive, privately owned and unaccountable
 central banking system that has obtained absolute control over our country and the federal government.

 We learned at the hearing that most of the revenue generated from the income tax is not used to run the
 government but is collected by the private Federal Reserve System as interest on the national debt -- money
 that this corrupt money system creates out of thin air, and then loans to the federal government -- in a
 fraudulent scheme that has kept the American people is a state of perpetual debt to these private bankers
 for three quarters of a century.

 Since 1933, the privately owned Federal Reserve system has been granted the unconstitutional power to
 fabricate money out of thin air, charge interest to the government for the use of the Fed's fabricated money
 and to receive taxes to pay that interest, paid with the American people's labor.

 Today, the average American family pays more in taxes than it does for housing, food and clothing
 combined.

 There is no question that indentured servitude is alive and well in America.

 American citizens are compelled by the government to perform labor in order to pay off the government's
 debt to the PRIVATE banking cartel. Most Americans are in a condition of continual, economic peonage and
 slavery to the federal government and the privately owned Federal Reserve System (in violation of our rights
 guaranteed by the 13th Amendment). The evidence also shows that our system of income tax collection has
 led to widespread and unjustifiable abuse of the People's unalienable due process rights.

 Among the significant wrongs committed by our government to perpetuate this fraud include:

      The unlawful indictment, prosecution and imprisonment of law-abiding Citizens who dare question the
      government's legal authority to collect this tax.
      The unlawful seizures of property, wages, bank accounts -- all without court orders or proper warrants
      to satisfy supposed tax debts that, in fact, have no basis in law.
      The pervasive and systemic denial of due process rights and other constitutional protections in the
      daily administrative operations of the IRS.
      The collusion of the Courts in perpetuating the unlawful tax system by their failure to directly rule on
      proper legal challenges to our laws and the tacit approval of legal abuse by DOJ and the IRS against
      the People.

 People like Joseph Banister, William Benson, William Conklin, Irwin Schiff, Nick Jesson, Joe Farah, Larry
 Becraft, Jeff Dickstein , Congressmen Hanson and Traficant and scores of other credentialed professionals
 have for years been researching the issues and petitioning the government for a Redress of Grievances
 regarding the apparently fraudulent jurisdiction of the Internal Revenue Service and the illegal operations of
 the nation's income tax system. In response, the government has been using those petitions as grounds for
 abuse, sanctions, persecution, prosecution and incarceration.

 IRS special agent Joe Banister completed his 95-page research report in February of 1999, and submitted it
 to his superiors in the San Jose office of the IRS with a respectful request that it be passed up the chain of
 command to the IRS Commissioner. Joe was merely asking for a response to his conclusions that there is
 no statute compelling citizens to file and pay income or social security taxes and that the 16th Amendment
 was not legally ratified.

 Instead of responding to the evidence and conclusions, Mr. Banister's superiors forced Joe to resign.

 Attorneys Becraft and Dickstein have been sanctioned by the courts for raising questions about the validity
 of the income tax system.

 Researchers Benson, Schiff and others have been incarcerated because they asked the government to show
 them the law that gives the government the constitutional and statutory authority to impose an income tax
 on the people.

 Scores of well-intentioned citizens have researched the issues and attempted to raise their questions about
 the legal authority of the IRS. They have acted professionally and respectfully. Nonetheless, they too have
 been persecuted for not worshiping and paying homage to the nation's new ruler -- its federal monetary
 system.

 A growing number of people have become familiar with the facts contained in these research reports and now
 believe that the IRS has no legal authority to force employers to withhold the tax from the paychecks of their
 employees and no legal authority to force most citizens to file an income tax return or to pay an income tax.

 Yet, a growing number of people are losing their homes, going to prison and otherwise being subjected to
 financial penalties and emotional stress for either falling behind on their payments or legitimately deciding
 that they do not have to pay.

 The Executive, Legislative and the Judicial branches of our government continue to enforce the income tax
 law that they know, without doubt, is unconstitutional and totally repugnant to our founding principles.

 Obviously, the current situation cannot be allowed to continue. In the interest of truth, justice and liberty, the
 People need to act.

 The record of the hearing is startling, compelling, disturbing and irrefutable.

 Like Mr. Henry, I have asked myself, "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of
 chains and slavery?"

 The question is nothing less than the question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of
 the subject there ought to have been the openness, diffusion and freedom of a thoughtful response to our
 petition for redress and a dialogue. It is only in this way that the People could hope to peaceably arrive at
 truth, and fulfill the great responsibility, which we hold to God and our country.

 It was natural for me to indulge in the illusions of hope. People are apt to shut their eyes against a painful
 truth. But, this is no longer the part of wise men, eternally engaged in a great and arduous struggle for
 liberty.

 I am not disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not the
 things, which so closely affect my life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness.

 For my part, whatever anguish it may have cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and
 to provide for it.

 Now, judging by the experiences of the past four years, I know what there has been nothing in the conduct of
 the government to justify any remaining hope that, in fact, the government has not forcibly, and
 unconstitutionally, seized power from the People.

 The recent warlike activities of the IRS are not the work of reason and reconciliation. Have the People shown
 themselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our allegiance to the
 government?

 We will not be deceived any longer. The stepped up enforcement activities of the IRS are the implements of
 war and subjugation; the last arguments to which tyrants resort.

 What do these acts of force mean, if its purpose were not to force us into submission? Can anyone assign
 any other possible motive for it? They are meant to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the Federal
 Reserve and the IRS have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose them with? Shall we try
 argument? We have been trying that for years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We
 have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to
 petition, remonstrance and humble supplication? What terms shall we find which have not been already
 exhausted? We will not deceive ourselves. We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm,
 which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have
 prostrated ourselves before the leaders of the Executive and the Congress and the Judiciary and have
 implored their interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the IRS.

 Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our
 supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the seats of
 power. In vain, after these things, would we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation? There is no
 longer any room for hope.

 If we wish to be free -- if we mean to preserve inviolate those rights which are too valuable to be estimated
 and for which we have been so long striving against great difficulties -- if we mean not to senselessly
 abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves
 never to abandon until the glorious object of our struggle shall be obtained -- then we must resort to force. An
 appeal to force and to the Creator is all that is left us!

 You may think that the People are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we
 be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a
 government eye and ear shall be positioned in every house?

 Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by
 lying passively on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope, until our enemies shall have bound
 us hand and foot?

 We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means, which the God of nature has placed in our power.
 The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we yet
 possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. The battle is not to the strong
 alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

 Besides, you have left us no choice. If we were senseless enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from
 the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be
 heard on Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues. The civil strife is inevitable. Let it come! Let it come!

 It is useless to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of the matter. Some may cry, Wait! Wait! -- But there
 is no waiting. Waiting is forever. The 'war' is actually begun! Our brethren are already in the jails and prisons,
 or subject to a steady gauntlet of harassment, fear and intimidation, liens, levies and seizures. We cannot
 stand idly by. What could we wish for?

 In fact, life is not so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

 Please take notice that I intend to do everything in my power to defend the unalienable rights of People who
 have not yet been harassed by the IRS and of those who have been harassed, prosecuted and/or
 incarcerated for failure to file a tax return or to pay the tax. In the case of the former I intend to promote the
 non-filing of returns and cessation of withholding "by the numbers." In the case of the latter, I intend to use
 force (a pro-active, non violent, mass movement), to achieve a moratorium on prosecutions, garnishments,
 liens and levies and the release of all people now incarcerated for tax "crimes."

 Please take notice that I take these actions in my individual capacity only, not in my official capacity as an
 officer in the We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc., and not as an officer in the We
 The People Congress, Inc.

 Please take notice that I am not in the business of selling any goods or services, I do not provide consulting
 services and I have no direct or indirect pecuniary interest in any individual or organization that does sell
 goods and/or services. That is, I have no conflict of interest.

 Please take notice that there is no short term or long-term risk to America with any sudden demise of the
 income tax. It is well known that the bulk of the income tax revenue goes: (1) to a cartel of private banks
 (which are not needed as Presidents Kennedy and Lincoln proved), to pay interest on counterfeit, imitation
 money received from that cartel, money created merely by the running a printing press; and (2) to pay for
 'transfer payments' -- that is, money transferred from one who has earned it to one who has not earned it,
 such as the subsidy payments received by Senator Grassley of Iowa and other members of his extended
 farm family. If it is decided by Congress that it wants more money next year than it collects from the Article
 I, Section 8 taxes (excise taxes, tariffs, imposts and duties), and Congress does not want to raise those
 taxes, and Congress does not want to run the government more frugally, Congress may readily resort to the
 imposition of direct taxes apportioned among the states, tied to the census, as authorized by Article I,
 Section 9, Clause 4 of the Constitution. Arguably, the only fallout resulting from such a restructuring of our
 society (from one with an income tax to one without an income tax) would be the practical difficulties
 realized by one industry -- the tax compliance industry, with its hordes of attorneys and accountants. Our
 society, however, has on many occasions proven that it can weather well the sudden disappearance of entire
 industries.

 Please take notice that I am 62 years old and until now have done everything the government has expected
 of me, including volunteering to serve in Vietnam in 1966. I have filed a Form 1040 tax return every year since
 about 1957. I earned an engineering degree from the U.S. Merchant Marine academy at Kings Point, New
 York and an MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. I have paid all local, state and federal taxes
 since 1957, including property and school taxes (I own my own home and over 100 acres of surrounding
 property). My wife Judy and I have been married since 1963. We have raised four children, who have been
 educated in four of the country's leading Colleges and Universities and have been contributing members of
 the military and the economy. I have four healthy and bright grandchildren. I have had significant positions in
 industry (General Electric), in state government (Connecticut and New York), in the federal government (as a
 full-time advisor to the EPA Administrator), on Wall Street (Prudential-Bache), and in business (founder and
 CEO of a management consulting firm).

 Please take notice that I am in my 23rd year of closely evaluating governmental behavior, comparing that
 behavior with the requirements of the state and federal constitutions and professionally, intelligently and
 rationally confronting unconstitutional or illegal behavior by government officials wherever I determined
 government had stepped outside the boundaries the People had drawn around its power. My passion is
 liberty. My record shows that I do not easily countenance arrogant, wayward behavior by my servant
 government.

 Abuse of taxing power is but the latest in a long line of governmental wrongdoings that has come to my
 attention. It must be countered -- now.

 Knowing what I now know about the fraudulent origin of the tax and the illegal operation of the income tax
 and money and banking systems, I cannot in good conscience continue to file a tax return, especially in
 light of the government's unwillingness to explain its behavior and to respond to our petition for a redress of
 these grievances.

 Very truly yours,

 ________________
 Robert L. Schulz
 
 

 Attachment No. 1
 Chronology of events leading up to the Citizens' Truth-In-Taxation Hearing, which was held on February 27
 and 28, 2002, together with copies of key documents.

 Attachment No. 2
 Record of the Citizens' Truth-In-Taxation Hearing on a set of four CD-ROMs, together with a written, certified
 transcript of the hearing and a summary of the conclusions and findings.

 Attachment No. 3
 "Causes That Impelled The Personal Decision Not To File Federal Income Tax Returns," including 532 facts,
 derived from the Citizens' Truth-In-Taxation Hearing, together with references to the evidence supporting each
 fact.

 Attachment No. 4
 Sample of over 3300 constituent-letters delivered to all members of Congress on April 15, 2002.

 Attachment No. 5
 Copies of responses received from members of Congress, with analyses.

 Attachment No. 6
 Question asked of President Bush's Press Secretary by Lester Konsloving at the White House Press
 Briefing on June 10, 2002, together with Mr. Fleischer's response.

 On Monday, June 10, 2002, at the White House Press Briefing, your press secretary Ari Fleischer was
 asked by Les Kinsolving, "Last July, Robert Schulz of 'We The People,' began a hunger strike -- to petition
 the government for a redress of grievances with the IRS. When this got national media coverage, both the
 Justice Department and IRS promised to meet with Schulz and his advisors and hold open meetings, which
 promises they have refused to keep since 9/11. And my question is, will the president direct them to keep
 that promise, or not?"

 Mr. Fleischer responded, "Lester, I'm not familiar with the specific case, and these questions are decided by
 the people involved."

  Cc:
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     Hon. George W. Bush
     President of the United States
     The White House
     1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
     Washington, DC 20500

     Hon. J. Dennis Hastert
     Speaker
     2369 Rayburn House Office Building
     Washington, D.C. 20515-1314

     Hon. Thomas Daschle
     Senate Majority Leader
     509 Hart Senate Office Building
     Washington, D.C. 20510-4103