Michael Badnarik Quotes
Does the Internal Revenue Service work for you or do you work for them?
Michael Badnarik, Libertarian Party Candidate for President, Nomination acceptance speech, Libertarian National Convention, May 30, 2004
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There are many who would disagree with Presti’s description, while many others have this as a chief complaint. The agency tends to change from administration to administration as to its policies and collection methods. In the decades since this criticism, the agency has changed a good deal. However, there are great differences between IRS practices in different parts of the country, some of which are better than the others. One of the major problems of the IRS is the conflict between collecting taxes that should have been paid and were not and ruining the business or individual that committed the offense by taking current working capital. Congress has NEVER weighed in on this question preferring to let the Civil Servants take the heat.
This is the tax that is paid by very rich people who leave very large inheritances. Over 95% of Americans who pass away are rich enough to have their estates taxed. Some call it the “death tax” in that you have to have died to pay it. This is what makes this quotation so clever. The original James Otis quote {626693} became a rallying cry of the American Revolution.
Michael J. Badnarik is an American software engineer, political figure, and former radio talk show host. He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2004 elections, and placed fourth in the race, behind independent candidate Ralph Nader and the two major party candidates, George W. Bush and John Kerry. Two years later Badnarik ran as a Libertarian Party candidate in the 2006 congressional elections for Texas's 10th congressional district seat near Austin. In a three candidate field, Badnarik came in third, receiving 7,603 votes for 4.3% of the vote.
