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However Accurate Or Inaccurate The Agency's Numbers May Be, Tax Law Explicitly Presumes That The Irs Is Always Right -- And Implicitly Presumes That The Taxpayer Is Always Wrong -- In Any Dispute With The Government. In Many Cases, The Irs Introduces No Evidence Whatsoever Of Its Charges; It Merely Asserts That A Taxpayer Had A Certain Amount Of Unreported Income And Therefore Owes A Proportionate Amount In Taxes, Plus Interest And Penalties.

Democracy Is Not Freedom. Democracy Is Two Wolves And A Lamb Voting On What To Eat For Lunch. Freedom Comes From The Recognition Of Certain Rights Which May Not Be Taken, Not Even By A 99% Vote. Those Rights Are Spelled Out In The Bill Of Rights And In Our California Constitution. Voters And Politicians Alike Would Do Well To Take A Look At The Rights We Each Hold, Which Must Never Be Chipped Away By The Whim Of The Majority.

It Is Absurd To Expect Governments To Descend Gradually, Step-by-step Into Barbarism - As If There Was A Train Schedule To Political Hell And People Could Get Off At Any Stop Along The Way.

To Blindly Trust Government Is To Automatically Vest It With Excessive Power. To Distrust Government Is Simply To Trust Humanity - To Trust In The Ability Of Average People To Peacefully, Productively Coexist Without Some Official Policing Their Every Move. The State Is Merely Another Human Institution - Less Creative Than Microsoft, Less Reliable Than Federal Express, Less Responsible Than The Average Farmer Husbanding His Land, And Less Prudent Than The Average Citizen Spending His Own Paycheck.

The People = Government Doctrine Is Equivalent To Political Infantilism -- An Agreement To Pretend That The Citizen's Wishes Animate Each Restriction Or Exaction Inflicted Upon Him.