The bipartisan tradition of using the IRS as a tool to harass political opponents suggests that the problem is deeper than just a few “rogue” IRS agents—or even corruption within one, two, three or many administrations. Instead, the problem lays in the extraordinary power the tax system grants the IRS.
The IRS routinely obtains information about how we earn a living, what investments we make, what we spend on ourselves and our families, and even what charitable and religious organizations we support. Starting next year, the IRS will be collecting personally identifiable health insurance information in order to ensure we are complying with Obamacare’s mandates.
The current tax laws even give the IRS power to marginalize any educational, political, or even religious organizations whose goals, beliefs, and values are not favored by the current regime by denying those organizations “tax-free” status. This is the root of the latest scandal involving the IRS
As the first US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall said, “The power to tax is the power to destroy” — and who better to destroy than one’s political enemies? The very purpose of the IRS is to transfer wealth from one group to another while violating our liberties in the process, thus the only way Congress can protect our freedoms is to repeal the income tax and shutter the doors of the IRS once and for all.
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Ron Paul: The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties
Ron Paul: Gold’s Decline is a Simple Bull Correction, US Dollar Has Declined for 100 Years!
Bloomberg’s Market Makers interviewed Ron Paul Tuesday, with Paul discussing last week’s epic gold smash. With the Bloomberg duo attempting to goad Paul into admitting gold is not a safe asset due to the recent price volatility, the former Texas Congressman stated that he’s not concerned about the recent gold slump, he’s worried about the 100 year slump in the US dollar! Paul points out that PHYSICAL gold demand has gone through the roof, and states for true believers the recent gold dip is an excellent buying opportunity, and that he personally bought gold last week.
Paul also discusses Bitcoin (not a fan…I’m not interested in something I can’t put in my pocket), Central bankers, the Treasury Bubble and its coming US collapse, and the future of the Republican party.
Paul’s full MUST WATCH interview is below: [Read more...]
Ron Paul: The Great Cyprus Bank Robbery
From Ron Paul:
The dramatic recent events in Cyprus have highlighted the fundamental weakness in the European banking system and the extreme fragility of fractional reserve banking. Cypriot banks invested heavily in Greek sovereign debt, and last summer’s Greek debt restructuring resulted in losses equivalent to more than 25 percent of Cyprus’ GDP. These banks then took their bad investments to the government, demanding a bailout from an already beleaguered Cypriot treasury. The government of Cyprus then turned to the European Union (EU) for a bailout. [Read more...]
“Gold Is The Ultimate Money” says Ron Paul
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Dr. Ron Paul was interviewed by Fox after the U.S. Federal Reserve confirmed it will continue its QE program highlights the importance of gold as money.
On July 13, 2011, when Dr. Paul was a U.S. Congressman he asked U.S. Fed Chairman, Ben Bernanke, “Do you think gold is money?” and Bernanke replied, “No, it’s a precious metal.” Dr. Paul countered, “Even though it’s been used for 6,000 years?” But Bernanke denied gold was money and said, “No, it’s an asset. Just like T-Bill’s are not money.”
The Fox News interviewer then commented, “Cyprus has taught us that governments can confiscate money that you’ve earned or even paid taxes on. Rampant quantitative easing and price fixing by governments may prop up the stock markets but it doesn’t keep unemployment down. The U.S. Fed is going to continue its QE program which is good for gold.” [Read more...]
Ron Paul: “When They Came For The Raw Milk Drinkers…”
While I oppose most gun control proposals, there is one group of Americans I do believe should be disarmed: federal agents. The use of force by federal agents to enforce unjust and unconstitutional laws is one of the major, albeit overlooked, threats to liberty. Too often Americans are victimized by government force simply for engaging in commercial transactions disproved of by Congress and the federal bureaucracy.
For example, the offices of Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, have been repeatedly raided by armed federal and state agents, and Rawesome’s founder, 65-year old James Stewart, has been imprisoned. What heinous crime justified this action? Rawesome sold unpasteurized (raw) milk and cheese to willing customers – in a state where raw milk is legal! You cannot even drink milk from a cow without a federal permit! [Read more...]
Ron Paul – Trade War & Economic Collapse Coming
Ron Paul was on Bloomberg’s Lunch Money discussing the developing currency wars. Paul states that the currency wars have been ongoing for decades, but they are now gearing up, but that government’s always compete to devalue their fiat currencies.
Paul informs the Bloomberg host that the loss in purchasing power from currency devaluation in a currency war devastates the middle class, and cancels out any slight benefit that you might be getting temporarily in terms of trade.
Paul also states that one day soon people around the world will reject all fiat currencies, and we will move into an age where people want to buy hard assets, and that this has already started with real estate, gold, & silver.
Paul’s full interview on the coming economic collapse is below:
Ron Paul: “6,000 Years of History, Gold Is Always Money, Paper Money Fails”
Ron Paul spoke with Bloomberg television and said that we are in a currency war and we have been for decades. He noted that governments have always competed against each other’s currencies even under Bretton Woods. It has always been a form or protectionism and will make people want to export more.
Dr. Paul said don’t blame countries like China and Japan just look at the debt the U.S. is buying. There will always be currency wars. The Bank of Japan claims it has to defend itself against deflation and decades of slow growth.
Ron Paul noted that the Bank of Japan’s yen devaluations will eventually lead to further price inflations that are to come. Investors and citizens will eventually reject the yen and switch to other currencies like dollars or Swiss francs. Then eventually people will move to hard assets altogether as they are losing confidence in paper assets.
Ron Paul says for over 6000 years of history gold is always money and paper money fails. [Read more...]
Ron Paul’s New Years Resolutions for Congress: Stop the Debt, Spending, & Wars, Start Following the Constitution & Bill of Rights!
By Ron Paul:
As I prepare to retire from Congress, I’d like to suggest a few New Year’s resolutions for my colleagues to consider. For the sake of liberty, peace, and prosperity I certainly hope more members of Congress consider the strict libertarian constitutional approach to government in 2013.
In just a few days, Congress will solemnly swear to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against ALL enemies, foreign and domestic. They should reread Article 1 Section 8 and the Bill of Rights before taking such a serious oath. Most legislation violates key provisions of the Constitution in very basic ways, and if members can’t bring themselves to say no in the face of pressure from special interests, they have broken trust with their constituents and violated their oaths. Congress does not exist to serve special interests, it exists to protect the rule of law.
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Ron Paul “We Have Passed The Point Of No Return”, US Will Be Just Like Greece!
CNBC invited retiring Congressman and former Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul on to discuss the lunacy of the fiscal cliff negotiations going on in Congress. In this MUST WATCH interview, Paul informed the CNBC host that the resolution of the fiscal cliff is meaningless, as we have already passed the point of no return where we can get our house in order. Nobody wants to talk about military cuts..the safety net is always available, there has been a recent hurricane, there will be no hesitation whatsoever to spend that money ($100 billion) without any offsetting spending cuts...
This will be just like the Greece debt deals where there is agreement after agreement, but nothing is ever really fixed. There is no admission that there is a fiscal crisis. If they don’t admit it they can’t solve the problem, Congress is like a bunch of drug addicts seeking another fix!
Paul goes on to state that: “They pretend they are fighting up there, but they really aren’t. They are arguing over power, spin, who looks good, who looks bad, all trying to preserve the system where they can spend what they want, take care of their friends and print money when they need it.”
Paul’s full fiscal sanity below: [Read more...]
Ron Paul: Government Security is Just Another Kind of Violence
By Ron Paul:
Our freedoms as Americans preceded gun control laws, the TSA, or the Department of Homeland Security. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference, not by safety. It is easy to clamor for government security when terrible things happen; but liberty is given true meaning when we support it without exception, and we will be safer for it.
Real change can happen only when we commit ourselves to rebuilding civil society in America, meaning a society based on family, religion, civic and social institutions, and peaceful cooperation through markets. We cannot reverse decades of moral and intellectual decline by snapping our fingers and passing laws. [Read more...]
Ron Paul: Expanding Covert Warfare Makes Us Less Safe
By Ron Paul:
Earlier this month we learned that the Obama Administration is significantly expanding the number of covert Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) agents overseas. From just a few hundred DIA agents overseas today, the administration intends to eventually deploy some 1,600 covert agents. The nature of their work will also shift, away from intelligence collection and more toward covert actions. This move signals a major change in how the administration intends to conduct military and paramilitary operations overseas. Unfortunately it is not a shift toward peace, but rather to an even more deadly and disturbing phase in the “war on terror.” [Read more...]
Ron Paul: Government Spending Will Send Us Over The Fiscal Cliff
By Ron Paul:
Liberty always loses in the 11th hour.
As the year draws to an end, America faces yet another Congressionally-manufactured crisis which will likely end in yet another 11th hour compromise, resulting in more government growth touted as “saving” the economy. While cutting taxes is always a good idea, setting up a ticking time bomb with a sunset provision, as the Bush tax cuts did, is terrible policy. Congress should have just cut taxes. But instead, we have a crisis that is sure not to go to waste. [Read more...]
Ron Paul: Why I Didn’t Run as an Independent
As Ron Paul packs up his DC condo and prepares to move home to Texas for good, he sat down for a must see exit interview regarding his nearly 4 decades in Congress, the special interests he views as most dangerous to Americans (Paul states the military industrial complex and the banking system, in no particular order), and why he never considered running for president as an independent.
Paul states that running as an independent just isn’t practical, and that in order to affect change for liberty in our nation, You go to the campuses, rally up the young people, you stir up a whole generation of people. Ideas do have consequences. That’s the good news, the campuses are alive and well with these views, and they know the system is bankrupt.
Paul’s full farewell interview below:
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Ron Paul on sound money prospects in the USA
Following his “Farewell to Congress” speech last week, Congressman Ron Paul talks to GoldMoney’s Andy Duncan about the achievements and legacy of his recent presidential campaign — particularly in the context of monetary policy. They discuss the recent re-publication of his book The Case for Gold and his forthcoming chairmanship of the Campaign for Liberty (www.campaignforliberty.org/). Paul also talks about the likelihood of America returning to some form of gold standard in the years ahead and the prospects for private currency issuance; as well as what the next four years under President Obama are likely to hold.
Full GoldMoney interview with Ron Paul below: [Read more...]
Ron Paul: Secession- Are We Free To Go?
By Ron Paul:
There is nothing treasonous or unpatriotic about wanting a federal government that is more responsive to the people it represents. That is what our Revolutionary War was all about and today our own federal government is vastly overstepping its constitutional bounds with no signs of reform. At what point should the people dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an increasingly tyrannical and oppressive federal government? If people or states are not free to leave the United States as a last resort, can they really think of themselves as free?
If a people cannot secede from an oppressive government, they cannot truly be considered free.
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