Foreign Tax Status Information Group (FTSIG)

“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he breaks, servitude [to the state as a public officer such as a “taxpayer”] is at once the consequence of his crime.”

[John Philpot Curran, 1790]

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“Liberty Means Responsibility [no benefits].  That’s why most men dread it.”
[George Bernard Shaw]

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“Unrestricted power of taxation is the greatest power over accumulated wealth, manufacturers, industry, and personal freedom which any government can have; for liberty, as Hampden found out, cannot be worth much to a man [who volunteered to be a “U.S. person” in this case] who may be taxed in any way some other man pleases.” 

[Congress and the Constitution, The Nation, p. 214, March 21, 1895]

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1. Introduction

Welcome to our website. We exist to offer you third party court admissible evidence about how to implement a foreign tax status as an American National born anywhere in the United States of America.

Foreign Tax Status: A “foreign tax status” includes such things as “nonresident aliens”, “foreign corporations”, “foreign trusts”, “foreign estates”, “foreign partnerships”, etc. These entities collectively are called “foreign persons” by the IRS. Anyone who is not a resident alien can lawfully adopt a foreign tax status. Nonresident aliens include (listed on the 1040-NR return itself in the upper right corner):

1. Human beings.
2. Trusts.
3. Estates.

Domestic Tax Status: The OPPOSITE of a “FOREIGN person” is a DOMESTIC “U.S. person”. Important facts about DOMESTIC “U.S. person” you probably don’t know and suffer greatly by not knowing:

1. It is VOLUNTARY. If you as an American born anywhere in United States as a country don’t want to volunteer, you can choose “nonresident alien” and adopt a foreign tax status.
2. You volunteer for the status by filing 1040 tax return instead of 1040-NR.
3. It has NOTHING to do with your nationality or even whether you are political citizen or a Fourteenth Amendment citizen. You can be am American National and STILL have a foreign tax status as a “nonresident alien” (foreign person) instead of a “U.S. person”.
4. It pays tax on its WORLDWIDE earnings rather than only on the earnings from the U.S. government as in the case of a nonresident alien.
5. It is a CIVIL STATUTORY straw man that is part of a franchise called a “trade or business” in legal terminology, which is then defined as “the functions of a public office”.
6. It is a DOMESTIC fictional corporate entity and an agency or office or position within the U.S. government.
7. It acts in a representative capacity representing the government.
8. It is an agent of the Department of the Treasury within the Executive branch serving under the Secretary of the Treasury. Regulations written by the Secretary manage and direct and limit everything it does or can do.
9. When you volunteer, you agree to act as a “resident agent” for an office or position domiciled in the District of Columbia, regardless of where you have YOUR domicile. The SSN is your AGENT ID. See 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(39) and 26 U.S.C. §7408(d). That office or position is also called a “tax status”.
10. Is it a steward and property manager for the U.S. government under the terms of a commercial franchise. The PUBLIC property managed is the privileges and obligations of the office itself and whatever FORMERLY PRIVATE property you attach the SSN franchise mark to and thus donate to a public use by “effectively connecting it” to the franchise.
11. Under principles of equity and unjust enrichment, your act of applying for and actually pursuing the status and the “benefits and privileges” attached to the CIVIL “U.S. person” status and franchise by filing the 1040 return conveys the legal authority and standing to the government creator and owner of the status to enforce the civil obligations associated with it against you. That enforcement authority is called a “quasi-contract” by the U.S. Supreme Court in Milwaukee v. White, 296 U.S. 268 (1935).

Don’t believe us about the AMAZING statements above?

1. Read the proof for yourself:
   How American Nationals Volunteer to Pay Income Tax, Form #08.024
   https://sedm.org/Forms/08-PolicyDocs/HowYouVolForIncomeTax.pdf
2. Click Here for a dialog with an AI chatbot that not only says we are right, but that our position is quite coherent. Ask these questions of your favorite chatbot and see for yourself.

If what we are saying is true, then WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? The prison house door is WIDE OPEN. Why didn’t they teach you this in the IRS publications or public school? Because they want obedient tax slaves who think they know everything and don’t question anything. They want to close your mind with the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

2. What are some of the ADVANTAGES of a Foreign Tax Status?

1. Both aliens and nationals can be nonresident aliens, INCLUDING American Nationals from states of the Union.  See Form #09.081.
2. Do not owe tax on their WORLDWIDE earnings like statutory U.S. citizens and U.S. residents, collectively called “U.S. persons”. See Form #05.053.
3. Not required to use a Social Security Number or Taxpayer Identification Number if NOT engaged in a “trade or business”.  See 26 C.F.R. §301-6109-1(b).
4. Only “U.S. sourced” payments are taxable, including:
   4.1. Earnings originating from the statutory geographical “United States” under 26 U.S.C. §871(a) (District of Columbia).
   4.2. Government payments that are effectively connected under 26 U.S.C. § 871(b) from anywhere in the WORLD.
5. Earnings from WITHOUT the statutory geographical United States** and not paid by the U.S. government are EXCLUDED rather than EXEMPTED from tax under 26 U.S.C. § 872.  See:
   Excluded Earnings and People, Form #14.019
   https://sedm.org/Forms/14-PropProtection/ExcludedEarningsAndPeople.pdf
6. 1040NR tax return:
   6.1. Is simpler to prepare for most Americans than 1040 because less has to go on it.
   6.2 Can use Form 1040NR return for partnerships, LLCs, and trusts just like the 1040.
   6.3. Uses the SAME tax table as U.S. persons.
   6.4. Can be used both in a constitutional state or abroad.
   6.5. Can take deductions on effectively connected (trade or business, Form #05.001) earnings just like STATUTORY “U.S. Persons”, but deductions are FAR MORE limited.
7. No Foreign Bank Account Reporting (FBAR), unlike U.S. persons.
8. Not subject from Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates to have health insurance.
9. Identifying number on the return is called “Your Identifying Number” instead of “Social Security Number” or “Taxpayer identification Number”. 
10. Domiciled outside of federal jurisdiction and thus unreachable by the civil statutory law.  See:
    Why Domicile and Becoming a “Taxpayer” Require Your Consent, Form #05.002
    https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Domicile.pdf
11. Cannot be criminally prosecuted for anything but fraud on a government tax form.  See:
    Challenging Jurisdiction Workbook, Form #09.082
    https://sedm.org/Forms/09-Procs/ChalJurWorkbook.pdf

3. Why is Foreign Tax Status an Option for Every American National?

Because involuntary servitude is prohibited by the Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) everywhere in the United States as a country and because it is a maxim of the common law that you AT ALL TIMES have a right to refuse “benefits”, Uncle Sam had to create the nonresident alien “foreign” tax status so that you could lawfully avoid the CIVIL obligations attached to the “U.S. person” status that in effect “pay for” the delivery of the benefits of that status.

If anyone imposes any tax status, civil status, or legal status against you that involves obligations against you of any kind without your proven consent in some form, then you are a victim of criminal identity theft as described below:

Government Identity Theft, Form #05.046
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/GovernmentIdentityTheft.pdf

Likewise, if anyone changes the civil status of your property from PRIVATE to PUBLIC by assigning a tax status or civil status or legal status to it without your proven consent in some form in a format ONLY YOU can define as the owner, they are STEALING in violation of the Fifth Amendment. It is your ABSOLUTE prerogative as the absolute owner of your private property to require that all such conversions MUST be done ONLY in writing signed by both parties AND identifying that the transfer is voluntary and cannot be forced. See:

Separation Between Public and Private Course, Form #12.025
https://sedm.org/LibertyU/SeparatingPublicPrivate.pdf

4. The DOMESTIC “U.S. Person” status is PUBLIC PROPERTY of Uncle Sam and a PRIVILEGE

Since Uncle Sam created the statutory “U.S. person,” franchise or privilege, he is the OWNER and has the right to define the allowable candidates of its potential franchisees. The CREATOR of a thing is always the OWNER under legal principles. Rather than go with nationality or domicile, Uncle decided to make the “U.S. person” franchise status accessible to only a certain class of “citizen,” born within the exclusive jurisdiction of territories and possessions but not Constitutional states. This new “citizen” civil status established by the franchisor is the ONLY lawful target of CIVIL enforcement under I.R.C. 6671(b) and CRIMINAL enforcement under I.R.C. 7343. NO EXPRESS LIABILITY statute is needed to make you the lawful target of enforcement because the election itself is all the consent needed to make enforcement lawful. That election happens by simply submitting a government form that identifies you WITH the status, such as “taxpayer”, “citizen”, “U.S. individual”, etc. The only choice you have if you want to avoid obligations of the status is to:

1. Choose a DIFFERENT form. OR
2. Make your own form. OR
3. Define the terms to avoid the status and the obligations that attach to it.

There is NOTHING you can do to get a CONSTITUTIONAL remedy beyond the point accepting their legislatively created and owned tax status or civil status. This is because by pursuing the franchise status of “U.S. person” you SURRENDERED constitutional remedies in exchange for Congressionally granted PRIVILEGES, which are PUBLIC property under what the U.S. Supreme Court calls “The Public Rights Doctrine” and the “Constitutional Avoidance Doctrine”.

“These general rules are well settled:

(1) That the United States, when it creates rights in individuals against itself, is under no obligation to provide a remedy through the courts. United States ex rel. Dunlap v. Black, 128 U.S. 40; Ex parte Atocha, 17 Wall. 439; Gordon v. United States, 7 Wall. 188, 195; De Groot v. United States, 5 Wall. 419, 431-433; Comegys v. Vasse, 1 Pet. 193, 212.

(2) That, where a statute creates a right and provides a special remedy, that remedy is exclusive. Wilder Manufacturing Co. v. Corn Products Co., 236 U.S. 165, 174-175; Arnson v. Murphy, 109 U.S. 238; Barnet v. National Bank, 98 U.S. 555, 558; Farmers’ & Mechanics’ National Bank v. Dearing, 91 U.S. 29, 35.

Still, the fact that the right and the remedy are thus intertwined might not, if the provision stood alone, require us to hold that the remedy expressly given excludes a right of review by the Court of Claims, where the decision of the special tribunal involved no disputed question of fact and the denial of compensation was rested wholly upon the construction of the act. See Medbury v. United States, 173 U.S. 492, 198; Parish v. MacVeagh, 214 U.S. 124; McLean v. United States, 226 U.S. 374; United States v. Laughlin, 249 U.S. 440. “

[United States v. Babcock, 250 U.S. 328 (1919)]

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“The distinction between public rights and private rights has not been definitively explained in our precedents. Nor is it necessary to do so in the present cases, for it suffices to observe that a matter of public rights must at a minimum arise “between the government and others.” Ex parte Bakelite Corp., supra, at 451, 49 S.Ct., at 413. In contrast, “the liability of one individual to another under the law as defined,” Crowell v. Benson, supra, at 51, 52 S.Ct., at 292, is a matter of private rights. Our precedents clearly establish that only controversies in the former category may be removed from Art. III courts and delegated to legislative courts or administrative agencies for their determination. See Atlas Roofing Co. v. Occupational Safety and Health Review Comm’n, 430 U.S. 442, 450, n. 7, 97 S.Ct. 1261, 1266, n. 7, 51 L.Ed.2d. 464 (1977); Crowell v. Benson, supra, 285 U.S., at 50-51, 52 S.Ct., at 292. See also Katz, Federal Legislative Courts, 43 Harv.L.Rev. 894, 917-918 (1930).FN24 Private-rights disputes, on the other hand, lie at the core of the historically recognized judicial power.”

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Although Crowell and Raddatz do not explicitly distinguish between rights created by Congress [PUBLIC RIGHTS] and other [PRIVATE] rights, such a distinction underlies in part Crowell’s and Raddatz’ recognition of a critical difference between rights created by federal statute and rights recognized by the Constitution. Moreover, such a distinction seems to us to be necessary in light of the delicate accommodations required by the principle of separation of powers reflected in Art. III. The constitutional system of checks and balances is designed to guard against “encroachment or aggrandizement” by Congress at the expense of the other branches of government. Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S., at 122, 96 S.Ct., at 683. But when Congress creates a statutory right [a “privilege” or “public right” in this case, such as a “trade or business”], it clearly has the discretion, in defining that right, to create presumptions, or assign burdens of proof, or prescribe remedies; it may also provide that persons seeking to vindicate that right must do so before particularized tribunals created to perform the specialized adjudicative tasks related to that right. FN35 Such provisions do, in a sense, affect the exercise of judicial power, but they are also incidental to Congress’ power to define the right that it has created. No comparable justification exists, however, when the right being adjudicated is not of congressional creation. In such a situation, substantial inroads into functions that have traditionally been performed by the Judiciary cannot be characterized merely as incidental extensions of Congress’ power to define rights that it has created. Rather, such inroads suggest unwarranted encroachments upon the judicial power of the United States, which our Constitution reserves for Art. III courts.

[Northern Pipeline Const. Co. v. Marathon Pipe Line Co., 458 U.S. 50, 102 S.Ct. 2858 (1983)]

The above explains why if you want to be totally free and avoid government obligations, for instance, that you shouldn’t use or invoke any STATUS in their franchise code when communicating with them and must CREATE your own definitions and anti-franchise that only YOU own and therefore CONTROL. The DEFINITION section of civil statutes in fact is where the status is CREATED and OWNERSHIP of its CREATOR is established. PUBLIC RIGHTS (privileges) are then assigned to that civil statutory status elsewhere in the franchise contract or code. If no OBLIGATIONS attach to the status like that of “nonresident alien”, then its NOT their property and they don’t control people who invoke it. If you do use their definitions, you surrender all PRIVATE rights and exchange them for PUBLIC privileges (which are also sometimes DECEPTIVELY called “rights”). Remember: All rights are property. PUBLIC rights are PUBLIC property, PRIVATE rights are PRIVATE, constitutionally and not statutorily protected property. Watch out!

On Why You MUST Define Franchise “words of art” on all Government Forms and How to Do It
https://ftsig.org/on-why-you-must-define-franchise-words-of-art-on-all-government-forms-and-how-to-do-it/

5. U.S. Supreme Court Agrees that Electing (voluntarily invoking) the “Citizen of the United States” Civil Status by filing a 1040 Return Makes You a “Taxpayer” on Worldwide Earnings

This actually makes it much harder to understand and convey to others. Most think, “Because I’m a ‘citizen,’ I am a ‘U.S. person.'” But it’s an election that transcends domicile, and the franchisee is a CIVIL “citizen**+D” within the civil jurisdiction of the “United States.”

“In other words, the principle was declared that the government, by its very nature, benefits the [person who ELECTS the CIVIL STATUTORY FRANCHISE STATUS OF] citizen [on a 1040 Tax form like Cook did] and his property wherever found and, therefore, has the power to make the benefit complete. Or to express it another way, the basis of the power to tax was not and cannot be made dependent upon the situs of the property in all cases, it being in or out of the United States, and was not and cannot be made dependent upon the domicile of the citizen, that being in or out of the United States, but upon his relation [CIVIL FRANCHISE STATUS ELECTION] as citizen to the United States and the relation of the latter to him as citizen. The consequence of the relations is that the native citizen who is taxed may have domicile, and the property from which his income is derived may have situs, in a foreign country and the tax be legal — the government having power to impose the tax.

[Cook v. Tait, 265 U.S. 47, 56 (1924);SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10657110310496192378]

The U.S. Supreme Court in the above HID the main source of its jurisdiction to enforce upon Cook by NOT mentioning that the ORIGIN of it was his “election” to be treated as a privileged “U.S. person” by filing a 1040 form at the time and checking the box labelled “Are you a citizen or resident of the United States”. They didn’t have the 1040-NR form at the time and only had the 1040, and that form required an election to be a “U.S. person”. That election process was first offered in on the 1920 1040 form so that people could OPT OUT and choose nonresident alien by simply NOT checking that box. Today, you make the same election by simply filing the 1040 and avoid the election by filing the 1040-NR. This is why it is imperative to file the CORRECT FOREIGN tax return, the 1040-NR, and properly aver status in all litigation as “Citizen of the State of New York and resident of the borough of Brooklyn” (for example).

6. SSN is the License to Represent the “U.S. person” Position and Office

Within the “U.S. person” franchise, the SSN then functions as the de facto “license” issued by U.S. Inc to permit YOU as a VOLUNTEER to act in that capacity. This is why the word “INTERNAL” appears in the phrase “INTERNAL Revenue Service”. The “U.S. person” is a registered agent or an office or position domiciled in the District of Columbia while the VOLUNTEER filling said position or office can have a domicile ANYWHERE per 26 C.F.R. §301.7701(b)-2. The act of APPLYING for an SSN, TIN, or EIN is in fact the act of BECOMING such a “registered agent” in an otherwise legislatively/CIVILLY foreign jurisdiction.

7. Then WHAT does FOREIGN and DOMESTIC Really Mean?

Earlier tax regulations give us a HUGE clue about the the meaning of the terms “FOREIGN” and “DOMESTIC” for income tax purposes:

26 C.F.R. §301.7701-5 Domestic, foreign, resident, and nonresident persons (2003)

A domestic corporation is one organized or created in the United States, including only the States (and during the periods when not States, the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii), and the District of Columbia, or under the law of the United States or of any State or Territory. A foreign corporation is one which is not domestic. A domestic corporation is a resident corporation even though it does no business and owns no property in the United States. A foreign corporation engaged in trade or business within the United States is referred to in the regulations in this chapter as a resident foreign corporation, and a foreign corporation not engaged in trade or business within the United States, as a nonresident foreign corporation. A partnership engaged in trade or business within the United States is referred to in the regulations in this chapter as a resident partnership, and a partnership not engaged in trade or business within the United States, as a nonresident partnership. Whether a partnership is to be regarded as resident or nonresident is not determined by the nationality or residence of its members or by the place in which it was created or organized.
[Amended by T.D. 8813, Federal Register: February 2, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 21), Page 4967-4975]

[Click here for for more authorities on “domestic”]

Based on the above, we can see that the income tax is NOT a tax on “nationality” per say as an American National born anywhere in the COUNTRY “United States”. This is because those who are “nationals of the United States” are ALSO recognized as “nonresident aliens” in 26 U.S.C. §873. Instead, it’s a tax on the use and consumption of government PRIVILEGES/PUBLIC property. Those participating in the “trade or business” excise taxable franchise are INSIDE and INTERNAL to the government, PUBLIC, and DOMESTIC. Those not participating are OUTSIDE the government, PRIVATE, and FOREIGN. The courts agree with this conclusion:

“A franchise is said to be a right reserved to the people by the constitution, as the elective franchise. Again, it is said to be a privilege conferred by grant from government, and vested in one or more individuals, as a public office. Corporations, or bodies politic are the most usual franchises known to our laws.”
[People v. Ridgley, 21 Ill. 65, 1859 WL 6687, 11 Peck 65 (Ill., 1859)]

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees with the above by admitting that the income tax is a tax on THE GOVERNMENT and those (agents and officers) INSIDE the government and not a GEOGRAPHY when it held:

“In the latter character, it was admitted that the power of levying direct taxes might be exercised, but for District purposes only, as a state legislature might tax for state purposes; but that it could not legislate for the District under Art. I, sec. 8, giving to Congress the power “to lay and collect taxes, imposts and excises,” which “shall be uniform throughout the United States,” inasmuch as the District was no part of the United States. It was held that the grant of this power was a general one without limitation as to place, and consequently extended to all places over which the government extends; and that it extended to the District of Columbia as a constituent part of the United States.“
[Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901); https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=9926302819023946834]

Notice the phrase “without limitation as to place”. This PROVES it’s a NON-GEOGRAPHICAL tax. And if it IS in fact “non-geographical” there is NO POINT in arguing about the definition of statutory geographical “United States” in 26 U.S.C. §7701(a)(9) and (a)(10). We can see from the above quote therefore that the income tax also isn’t on a specific GEOGRAPHY, but upon PROPERTY or OFFICES WITHIN the government WHEREVER THEY ARE FOUND anywhere in the WORLD. PROPERTY and OFFICES, after all, are technically the ONLY thing the government consists of to begin with. As a matter of fact, OFFICES themselves are just property consisting of PRIVILEGES and OBLIGATIONS that are both property. The ability to regulate or tax PRIVATE property that is OUTSIDE the government and therefore FOREIGN and protected by the Bill of Rights and NOT the statutory code, in fact, is repugnant to the Constitution.

8. President Obama Agrees You Work for the Government as an Officer if you Call Yourself a “Citizen”/U.S. person

What, pray tell, could be BETTER than a tax on ONLY the government? This gives a WHOLE NEW meaning and context to the phrase that Abraham Lincoln used in his now famous Gettysburg Address “A government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people”, doesn’t it? And it’s also COMPLETELY consistent with what President Obama said in his Farewell Address on January 10, 2017 when he proudly and confidently and forcefully declared that a [CIVIL/DOMICILED] “citizen**+D” is the most IMPORTANT OFFICE (in the government, and therefore a PUBLIC office). Listen for yourself starting at 5:45:

President Obama Admits in His Farewell Address that “citizen” is a public office, Exhibit #01.018
https://sedm.org/Exhibits/EX01.018-39-45-20170110-Obama%20Farewell%20Speech.mp4

In the above video, President Obama complains that it should be EASIER to vote not harder. If voting wasn’t tied to domicile and therefore tax liability, there would be FAR LESS downside to registering to vote and FAR more people would vote. Low voter turnout would be solved IMMEDIATELY if our political system was not dysfunctionally organized as a “pay-to-play” social compact system like it is now where you have to become a cow on a government tax farm called a “U.S. person” to be qualified and authorized to vote. Why can’t people register to vote WITHOUT having to accept or consent to any PERSONAL civil or financial privileges and without voting on the expenditures that fund those PERSONAL privileges in a clear and dangerous financial conflict of interest that can cause a democracy to literally and fiscally SELF DESTRUCT under the massive fiscal weight of the welfare state? Our democracy is disintegrating before our eyes with over 80% of the federal budget spent on entitlements and an enormous $39Trillion dollar public debt, all because of the welfare state where people can vote themselves a benefit increase. We did a Copilot AI search for authorities on the evils of a democracy that allows people to vote to increase their government “benefits” and here is what we got: CENSORED!

Can you give me a link to a view by a government official that discusses the downside of allowing people to vote to increase their government benefits?

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It therefore seems that the only thing left the government really wants to protect is any effort to prevent its own FISCAL SUICIDE! But please be careful, a dying beast like ours is at its most dangerous.

The implication of the above is that you have a right to NOT be a government/public officer or agent called a CIVIL Citizen**+D and if you DON’T, then you’re literally a slave and a peon to pay off an endless and rapidly growing mountain of public debt. Why? Because a public agent is someone who owes a duty to the government and involuntary servitude is prohibited by the constitution so you must be a volunteer.

“A public officer is one who has some duty to perform concerning the public; and he is not the less a public officer when his duty is confined to narrow limits [such as “taxpayer”], because it is the duty, and the nature of that duty, which makes him a public officer, and not the extent of his authority.‘ 7 Bac. Abr. 280; Carth. 479…. Where an employment or duty is a continuing [***65] one, which is defined by rules prescribed by law and not by contract, such a charge or employment is an office, and the person who performs it is an officer….”

[Ricker’s Petition, 66 N.H. 207 (1890)]

In addition, the legally enforceable duty mentioned above that a public officer has to the government grantor of the office represents a PROPERTY interest in YOUR services that is called a “Right”. The Fifth Amendment forbids the taking of PRIVATE property such as your services from you without JUST and FAIR compensation. So at some point, you had to consent to PROCURE the office, and that consent in most cases was manifested every time you invoked ANY civil status or tax status legislatively created, granted, and therefore OWNED by its human creator, the government, on a government form. The act of filling out and submitting the form in effect represents a PETITION to your SUBSTITUTE god, as someone you nominated to replace the real and living God as the source of your provision and protection. It functions like a prayer for a “benefit” or “blessing” to your pagan god for some form of relief or commercial benefit. Here is what scripture says about using the power of God to benefit yourself commercially or firing God and replacing Him with a new pagan government god and state-sponsored religion that will “benefit” you commercially such as with “Socialist Insecurity”:

The Sorcerer’s Sin

¹⁴ Now when the apostles who were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them, ¹⁵ who, when they had come down, prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit. ¹⁶ For as yet He had fallen upon none of them. They had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ¹⁷ Then they laid hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸ And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Spirit was given, he offered them money, ¹⁹ saying, “Give me this power also, that anyone on whom I lay hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”

²⁰ But Peter said to him, “Your money perish with you, because you thought that the gift of God could be purchased with money! ²¹ You have neither part nor portion in this matter, for your heart is not right in the sight of God. ²² Repent therefore of this your wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you. ²³ For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”

²⁴ Then Simon answered and said, “Pray to the Lord for me, that none of the things which you have spoken may come upon me.”

²⁵ So when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.

[Acts 8:14-25, Bible, NKJV]

That is why petitions to the U.S. Supreme Court are called “prayers”. In that sense, government has become god, “benefits” become blessings, and “taxes” are tithes to a state sponsored church. This new American civil religion that fires God and replaces it with pagan government is thoroughly documented in:

Socialism: The New American Civil Religion, Form #05.016
https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/SocialismCivilReligion.pdf

This problem is THE major source of corruption within the entire government, as documented in:

How Scoundrels Corrupted Our Republican Form of Government, Family Guardian Fellowship
https://famguardian.org/Subjects/Taxes/Evidence/HowScCorruptOurRepubGovt.htm

To try to CENSOR any connection between public BENEFITS or PROPERTY and the legal and spiritual problems they create as documented herein is in effect to PROTECT and expand SIN and government corruption. It is therefore patently ANTI-AMERICAN and even ANTI-GOD.

“Where do wars and fights [in the ballot box and the jury box] come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure [unearned money from the government] that war in your members [and your democratic governments]? You lust [after other people’s money] and do not have. You murder [the unborn to increase your standard of living] and covet [the unearned] and cannot obtain [except by empowering your government to STEAL for you!]. You fight and war [against the rich and the nontaxpayers to subsidize your idleness]. Yet you do not have because you do not ask [the Lord, but instead ask the deceitful government]. You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship [“U.S. Person”, “taxpayer”, CIVIL Citizen**+D status] with the world [or the governments of the world] is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend [CIVIL legal membership of ANY kind within the secular world] of the world [or the governments of the world in the form of an office, position, tax status, or civil status] makes himself an enemy of God.”

[James 4:4 , Bible, CSB]

Instead, God says this is the way to approach the subjects of public benefits and property:

Loving and Working

⁹ About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. ¹⁰ In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more, ¹¹ to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, ¹² so that you may behave properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

[1 Thess. 4:9-12, Bible, NKJV]

And by the way, for the purposes of this website, a “public officer” is legally defined as someone “in charge of the [PUBLIC] property of the government”. Simply being ELIGIBLE to receive such a PRIVILEGE or public “benefit” is enough to make you a public officer. As a bare minimum, that office or civil status itself is the “property” that the person volunteering for the office is in charge of, and possibly more. Click here for the amazing proof of that.

9. The Income Tax is “Rent” on the Use of the “U.S person” Identity that delivers Privileges and Benefits.

If these inferences were NOT true, why would the U.S. Supreme Court say the following?

“The constitutional right [Form #10.015] against unjust taxation [of PRIVATE, constitutionally protect property] is given for the protection of private property [Form #12.046], but it may be waived by those affected who consent [Form #05.003] to such action to their property as would otherwise be invalid [or even ILLEGAL or CRIMINAL].”

[Wight v. Davidson, 181 U.S. 371, 377 (1901);
SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=1202751686859480675]

The income tax therefore behaves as a “rent an identity” service, where the “U.S. person”, CIVIL “citizen**+D”, and CIVIL “resident” status wrapped up WITHIN it are the PRIVILEGED identity being “rented” for a fee. The Internal Revenue SERVICE is there to SERVICE club members called “taxpayers”. “U.S. person” functions in effect like a Costco Membership Card for a VOLUNTARY CIVIL Private Membership Association (PMA) governed by club rules called CIVIL STATUTES. Members are agents and officers of the collective group. Those who are NONMEMBERS are called FOREIGN and NONRESIDENTS. The SSN/TIN is the Membership Number printed on that card. The Federal Trade Commission calls that number a “franchise mark”. The Bible calls that franchise mark “The Mark of the Beast”. Everything that Member Number attaches to then becomes:

“PRIVATE PROPERTY donated to a public use to TACITLY procure the ‘benefits’ of a government franchise, including CIVIL STATUTORY protection, taxation, and regulation”.

It’s a “subscription service” and you have to make an “election” (a tacit form of CONSENT) to acquire that membership and the “U.S. citizen” benefits BUNDLED with it. “Members” of the franchise club are legally described as DOMESTIC and PUBLIC, while “nonmembers” are legally described as FOREIGN and PRIVATE. The definition of “PRIVATE” in Black’s Law Dictionary even confirms this:

PRIVATE. Affecting or belonging to private individuals, as distinct from the public generally. Not official; not clothed with office. People v. Powell, 280 Mich. 699, 274 N.W. 372, 373, 111 A.L.R. 721.

[Blacks Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, p. 1358]

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PRIVATE PERSON. An individual who is not the incumbent of an office.

[Blacks Law Dictionary, Fourth Edition, p. 1359]

A synonym for PRIVATE is the word “idiot” as defined in the amazing article below:

Are You an “Idiot”?, SEDM
https://sedm.org/are-you-an-idiot-we-are/

The U.S. Supreme Court CONFIRMED that the exercise of your First Amendment right of POLITICAL and LEGAL association to acquire that MEMBERSHIP is the MAIN method of SURRENDERING your constitutional rights when it held:

When one becomes a member of society, he necessarily parts with some rights or privileges which, as an individual not affected by his relations to others, he might retain. “A body politic,” as aptly defined in the preamble of the Constitution of Massachusetts, “is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.” This does not confer power upon the whole people to control rights which are purely and exclusively private, Thorpe v. R. & B. Railroad Co., 27 Vt. 143; but it does authorize the establishment of laws requiring each citizen to so conduct himself, and so use his own property, as not unnecessarily to injure another. This is the very essence of government, and 125*125 has found expression in the maxim sic utere tuo ut alienum non lædas. From this source come the police powers, which, as was said by Mr. Chief Justice Taney in the License Cases, 5 How. 583, “are nothing more or less than the powers of government inherent in every sovereignty, . . . that is to say, . . . the power to govern men and things.” Under these powers the government regulates the conduct of its citizens one towards another, and the manner in which each shall use his own property, when such regulation becomes necessary for the public good. In their exercise it has been customary in England from time immemorial, and in this country from its first colonization, to regulate ferries, common carriers, hackmen, bakers, millers, wharfingers, innkeepers, &c., and in so doing to fix a maximum of charge to be made for services rendered, accommodations furnished, and articles sold. To this day, statutes are to be found in many of the States upon some or all these subjects; and we think it has never yet been successfully contended that such legislation came within any of the constitutional prohibitions against interference with private property. With the Fifth Amendment in force, Congress, in 1820, conferred power upon the city of Washington “to regulate . . . the rates of wharfage at private wharves, . . . the sweeping of chimneys, and to fix the rates of fees therefor, . . . and the weight and quality of bread,” 3 Stat. 587, sect. 7; and, in 1848, “to make all necessary regulations respecting hackney carriages and the rates of fare of the same, and the rates of hauling by cartmen, wagoners, carmen, and draymen, and the rates of commission of auctioneers,” 9 id. 224, sect. 2.

From this it is apparent that, down to the time of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment, it was not supposed that statutes regulating the use, or even the price of the use, of private property necessarily deprived an owner of his property without due process of law. Under some circumstances they may, but not under all. The amendment does not change the law in this particular: it simply prevents the States from doing that which will operate as such a deprivation.

[Munn v. Illinois, 94 U.S. 113 (1877); SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6419197193322400931]

The “membership” they are talking about above is NOT your “political status” as a Fourteenth Amendment “citizen* of the United States***” born in a Constitutional State or a “national and citizen* of the United States** at birth” under 8 U.S.C. §1401 born within the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress because neither of these is always a product of your choice and consent. Both of these, by the way, are the origin of your POLITICAL status and NATIONALITY, and NOT your CIVIL STATUS. Instead, it’s one of the following forms of VOLUNTARY and CONSENSUAL CIVIL membership:

1. The exercise of your right to contract that implements your right to associate under the First Amendment. This INCLUDES all “elections” within the Internal Revenue Code. This is usually implemented with a voluntary franchise of some kind, such as a license, a permit, or a benefit:
   Government Franchises Course, Form #12.012
   PDF: https://sedm.org/LibertyU/GovFranchises.pdf
   VIDEO: http://youtu.be/vnDcauqlbTQ
2. Choosing a VOLUNTARY civil DOMICILE within a specific political group and thereby JOINING the “State” as a political member, voter, jurist, “person”, “taxpayer”, CIVIL/Domiciled Citizen**+D, etc. Domicile implements a Private Membership Association. (PMA) called the “State” and it has “club dues” called income taxes. See:
   Why Domicile and Becoming a “Taxpayer” Require Your Consent, Form #05.002
   https://sedm.org/Forms/05-MemLaw/Domicile.pdf

You can learn more about the above two methods of surrendering your rights at:

1. Authorities on Membership, SEDM
   https://sedm.org/authorities-on-membership/
2. How You Lose Constitutional or Natural Rights, Form #10.015
   https://sedm.org/Forms/10-Emancipation/HowLoseConstOrNatRights.pdf

In the case of American Nationals (POLITICAL but not CIVIL members) born ANYWHERE in the country “United States”, there is NO LEGAL RELATIONSHIP WHATSOEVER between any specific geography and whether you as an inhabitant WITHIN that geography are either FOREIGN or DOMESTIC. Such people are NONRESIDENTS everywhere in the world per the presence test in 26 U.S.C. §7701(b). They must therefore make some kind of ELECTION to come under the CIVIL jurisdiction of the national government and thereby be treated “as if” they are at least LEGALLY present within the exclusive jurisdiction of that government but not PHYSICALLY present.

“Since the corporate personality is a fiction, although a fiction intended to be acted upon as though it were a fact, Klein v. Board of Supervisors, 282 U.S. 19, 24, it is clear that unlike an individual its “presence” without, as well as within, the state of its origin can be manifested only by activities carried on in its behalf by those who are authorized to act [AGENTS and OFFICERS such as “taxpayers” and “persons”] for it. To say that the corporation is so far “present” there as to satisfy due process requirements, for purposes of taxation or the maintenance of suits against it in the courts of the state, is to beg the question to be decided. For the terms “present” or “presence” are used merely to symbolize those activities of the corporation’s agent [OFFICER] within the state which courts will deem to be sufficient to satisfy the demands of due process. L. Hand, J., in Hutchinson v. Chase & Gilbert, 45 F.2d 139, 141. Those demands may be met by such contacts [or FRANCHISES, which are ALSO contracts] of the corporation with the state of the forum as make it reasonable, in the context of our federal system of government, to require the corporation to defend the particular suit which is brought there. An “estimate of the inconveniences” which would result to the corporation from a trial away from its “home” or principal place of business [tax home, 26 C.F.R. §301.7701(b)-2(c)] is relevant in this connection. Hutchinson v. Chase & Gilbert, supra, 141.”
[International Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316-317 (1945); SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=5514563780081607825]

Those SUBSCRIBERS or MEMBERS acting as agents of the the government corporation (28 U.S.C. §3001(15)(A)) on behalf of the “State” (the people as a collective) are LEGALLY “in the State” while on duty as MEMBERS. They are LEGALLY but not PHYSICALLY present within the government CORPORATION as its agents and officers. They then become the FICTIONAL “persons” described in I.R.C. 6671(b) for civil enforcement and I.R.C. 7343 for CRIMINAL enforcement. A statutory privilege against an agent or officer of the government corporation then becomes a right AGAINST its government owner rather than merely the human animating the office. This is also why many freedom advocates like to describe themselves as “ON THE LAND but not IN THE STATE”. To cancel your subscription as an American National:

1. Merely change the STATUS of the Membership Number to “foreign” in the IRS records by filing a 1040-NR return under the authority of 26 C.F.R. §301.6109-1(g). OR
2. Revoke the number entirely. OR
3. Stop using it as authorized under 26 C.F.R. §301.6109-1(b). OR
4. Merely define any number provided tor private parties as NOT a STATUTORY number but rather a license to the GOVERNMENT instead of you under the authority of your OWN anti-franchise franchise. The government can’t interfere with that approach because the ability to define is a Legislative function that Executive Branch employees such as the IRS cannot lawfully engage in AND because they would be criminally tampering with a witness to do so.

If there ever even WAS such as thing as a “Revocation of Election” the above would HAVE to be it. Click here for our position on “Revocations of Election” (in the About->What We Reject->Frivolous Subject: Revocation of Election (ROE) menu at the top).

10. Why Seeking Government Privileges/Public Property is Extremely Damaging to Your Liberty

Those seeking “benefits”, “privileges”, and all OTHER forms of PUBLIC/GOVERNMENT property ultimately become slaves and chattel on the government farm because the very ORIGIN of Congress’ ability to tax and regulate is possession, use, custody, or “benefit” of PUBLIC property or PUBLIC services under Article 4, Section 3, Clause 2 of the Constitution and 5 U.S.C. §301, and they can tax or regulate literally ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD where their property is found:

People of all races, genders, political beliefs, sexual orientations, and nearly all religions are welcome here. All are treated equally under REAL “law”. The only way to remain truly free and equal under the civil law is to avoid seeking government civil services, benefits, property, special or civil status, exemptions, privileges, or special treatment.  All such pursuits of government services or property require individual and lawful consent to a franchise and the surrender of inalienable constitutional rights AND EQUALITY in the process, and should therefore be AVOIDED.  The rights and equality given up are the “cost” of procuring the “benefit” or property from the government, in fact.  Nothing in life is truly “free”.  Anyone who claims that such “benefits” or property should be free and cost them nothing is a thief who wants to use the government as a means to STEAL on his or her behalf. All just rights spring from responsibilities/obligations under the laws of a higher power.  If that higher power is God, you can be truly and objectively free.  If it is government, you are guaranteed to be a slave because they can lawfully set the cost of their property as high as they want as a Merchant under the U.C.C.    If you want it really bad from people with a monopoly, then you will get it REALLY bad. Bend over.  There are NO constitutional limits on the price government can charge for their monopoly services or property.  Those who want no responsibilities can have no real/PRIVATE rights, but only privileges dispensed to wards of the state which are disguised to LOOK like unalienable rights.  Obligations and rights are two sides of the same coin, just like self-ownership and personal responsibility.  For the biblical version of this paragraph, read 1 Sam. 8:10-22.  For the reason God answered Samuel by telling him to allow the people to have a king, read Deut. 28:43-51, which is God’s curse upon those who allow a king above them.  Click Here for a detailed description of the legal, moral, and spiritual consequences of violating this paragraph.
[FTSIG]

The purpose of this site is not to deprive the government of revenue for the services it provides or to promote irresponsibility on your part in refusing to pay for the services or benefits you use. People should always feel a moral obligation pay for the property and services they CONSENT and ASK in writing to consume. They should NOT, however, be forced to pay for privileges or property they don’t want or have to pay for more than they want through BUNDLING of wanted services with those that are UNWANTED. The purpose of this website instead is to offer people a real and meaningful choice about the LEVEL or EXTENT of the government CIVIL services that they consume and therefore should feel obligated to pay for. It seems those who provide said services:

1. Would like you to believe that you HAVE no such choice.
2. Want to make the process of procuring your consent COMPLETELY invisible so that you are never unambiguously informed how to withdraw it or “unvolunteer”. This is typically done with “implied consent” through some vague, incompletely specified action in violation of due process of law. This sad state of affairs is anathema to mandate of the Declaration of Independence that all just powers of government derive from the CONSENT of the governed, which implies that everything not EXPLICITY and knowingly consensual is inherently UNJUST.
3. By taking the above approach, are implementing what we call “weaponization of the government”, whereby monopolistic anti-competitive behavior ensures that all government services become an unconscionable adhesion contract where not only is no competition possible, but the government puts everyone out of business who tries to offer an alternative choice like they did with the Founder of Libertarianism, Lysander Spooner, who was forced our of business for providing private postal services that cost less than the Post Office:
   https://ftsig.org/weaponization-of-government/

The result of HAVING REAL choice as documented on this website is that all of the facts and evidence on this website could be so corrosive to government revenue that they are all Third Rail Issues that people in the government would have to literally commit “commercial or occupational suicide” to even discuss accurately on the public record. That is why you will NEVER find this kind of FORBIDDEN information on any government website or even court ruling.

If you REALLY want to be “left alone” by the government, which is what legal “justice” is defined as, talk ACCURATELY, PRECISELY, FEARLESSLY, and INCESSANTLY about NOTHING but these issues, which have never been labelled as frivolous because to even call them frivolous, they have to talk about them and rebut them in detail rather than just hyper-emotionalize the issue to try to CLOSE your mind with the Dunning-Kruger effect. Talk so precisely, that there is no room for the sophist equivocators to put out the fire of freedom with “words of art” that they can use to make you LOOK like you are frivolous. It’s JUST as frivolous, by the way, for any government to NOT DIRECTLY address the issues raised on this website, to AVOID, to IGNORE, to CENSOR, or to DENY an appeal (cert) involving these issues as is very common among those who LOVE money but HATE freedom and the Constitution. Equivocation, sophistry, and words of art are their ONLY weapons they have to HIDE the method of CONSENT they need to get your permission to receive PRIVATE property from you in the form of money. Once they lose that ability, the only thing left are to use guns, lawless force, and anarchy to get what they want if you don’t consent to give it to them. When you speak precisely about the Achilles heel of their power discussed on this website, they will have no choice but to run like cockroaches when the light of TRUTH comes on. Precision of and freedom of speech on this subject is the light of TRUTH that kills the virus of legal ignorance and apathy at the heart of all government corruption.

‘Where would we really find the principal danger to civil liberty in a republic? Not in the governors as governors, not in the governed as governed, but in the governed unequipped to function as governors. The chief enemies of republican freedom are mental sloth, conformity, bigotry, superstition, credulity, monopoly in the market of ideas, and utter, benighted ignorance. Relying as it does on the consent of the governed, representative government cannot succeed unless the community receives enough information to grasp public issues and make sensible decisions. As lights which may have been enough for the past do not meet the needs of the present, so present lights will not suffice for the more extensive and complex problems of the future. Heretofore public enlightenment may have been only a manifest desideratum; today it constitutes an imperative necessity. The First Amendment, says Justice Black, ‘reflects the faith that a good society is not static but advancing, and that the fullest possible interchange of ideas and beliefs is essential to attainment of this goal.’ (From Feldman v. United States, 322 U.S. 487, 501, 64 S.Ct. 1082, 1088, 88 L.Ed. 1408 (dissenting opinion).)’ Cahn, supra, p. 102.

[Adderley v. State of Fla., 385 U.S. 39, 56, 87 S.Ct. 242 (U.S.Fla. 1966); SOURCE: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=10641909224290088946]

11. Conclusions

If you want a series of questions you can ask your favorite AI chatbot to validate most of what is on this page, see:

Chat GPT 3.5: Is a purely contractual franchise a governmental act in a classical sense or a PRIVATE act?, FTSIG
https://ftsig.org/chat-gpt-3-5-is-a-purely-contractual-franchise-a-governmental-act-in-a-classical-sense-or-a-private-act/

Welcome to The Matrix, Neo! Agent Smith of the IRS would like to speak to you. He wants YOU to be a government agent called a “taxpayer” also, but he can’t tell you that under the terms of his Non Disclosure Agreement that protects Third Rail Issues. DOMESTIC is the name for all those WITHIN The Matrix. FOREIGN is the name for those OUTSIDE like Neo. We’re Morpheus in the movie.

There is no “magic silver bullet” or “magic piece of paper” that will release you from the LITERAL “Matrix” that is our tax system. The ONLY thing that will do that is YOU DILLIGENTLY getting legally educated and using that knowledge to communicate ACCURATELY, FORCEFULLY, and INCESSANTLY with the government about your rights and status using the correct forms, court authorities, statutes, and regulations and litigating to protect them YOURSELF if need be. No attorney gagged by a “license” from telling the WHOLE truth about the government and huge student loan debt to pay off can or will EVER do that for ANY amount of money, because most of them would be disbarred and out of a job and on the street if they did that job as documented on this site. They will never look their gift horse in the mouth by litigating a Third Rail Issue.

“The privilege against self-incrimination [Fifth Amendment] is neither accorded to the passive resistant, nor the person who is ignorant of their rights, nor to one who is indifferent thereto.  It is a fighting clause.  Its benefits can be retained only by sustained combat.  It cannot be claimed by an attorney or solicitor.  It is only valid when insisted upon by a belligerent claimant in person.”  
[U.S. v Johnson, 76 F. Supp. 538, 540 (1947), Emphasis added]