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I heard a talk radio show and a woman who
came on the radio

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and talked about that the federal income tax

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was voluntary in the sense that Congress
never passed a law

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that, you know, and a president signs the
bill

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to mandate the average American being
required

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to pay the federal income tax.

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And so that was, you know, quite an
outlandish claim,

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but I spent about two years of off-duty
investigation

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on my own, didn't ask for any permission

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because it wasn't an official investigation.

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It was just me as an American, you know,

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concerned about doing my duty,

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doing the right thing to look into it.

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And I expected to find out that she was, you
know,

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full of it and I had just lying to the
public,

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but I wanted to get to the truth, to the
bottom of it.

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And I used my investigative skills, you know,

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the skills that the IRS trained me in,

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skills that I developed as a certified public
accountant,

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skills that I learned in college to achieve
my degree.

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And so I applied all those skills and
training.

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And after about two years of part-time, you
know,

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off-duty investigation,

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I came to at least a preliminary conclusion

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that what she said that day on the radio was
actually true.

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And so, and this two year, you know,

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I don't know if I have time to get into the
two years,

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but I mean, basically utilize my training,

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but then investigated, you know,

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Supreme court cases and deeper into the tax
laws

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than I was ever trained to do.

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And so just use, you know,

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authorities that we're supposed to pay
attention to

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and adhere to like the US Supreme court and
its decisions

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or the actual laws that were passed by
Congress

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or the treasury regulations,

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or even the IRS's own internal manuals

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that would explain how does the IRS interpret
these laws.

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And so with gathering all those together

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and not coming up with anything on my own per
se,

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but more going in there to poke at, you know,

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claims that were made by others

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and looking at information that again,

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CPA exam didn't require you to dig deep

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into the internal revenue code,

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neither did the IRS, but you know,

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you had more training manuals and things like
that.

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So I dug deep to the actual authorities

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that we're all supposed to abide by.

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And so after this two year period,

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I realized that, wow, there's some issues
here.

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It looks like the IRS is indeed, you know,

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as an agency lying to the public,

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the average agent doesn't know better

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because they didn't do the digging that I
did.

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I believe that if they did, you know,

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if they had the courage to do so,

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if they actually believe they had a duty to
do so,

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they would come to the same conclusion I did,

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but they hadn't gone through the process like
I did.

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So I presented some of my findings to my IRS
supervisors.

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And I said, you know, if I really need help
here,

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because if I've taken a wrong turn,

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if I've done some kind of analysis that is
inaccurate,

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I'd like you to take a look at what I've done

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and then help me understand, you know,

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why I'm concluding that this information is
true

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and that the agency is, you know, lying to
the public

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about their income tax obligations.

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And in response to my, you know, very sincere
request,

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I was encouraged to resign from the IRS.

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And so...