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Review:
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afraid that the term “fascist” has been overused. For years the
left has been calling anyone to the right of them fascist. I mean,
if America were really fascist, do you think Aaron Russo would
have been able to make this film? Of course NOT! [Jeez!]
It begins with a couple of big, fat LIES. One, that the 16th
Amendment to the Constitution was never actually ratified, which
it most certainly was, and that the Congress didn't have the right
to establish the Federal Reserve system.
As to the second, The Supreme Court under John Marshall said
that the Congress had the power to do so in McCulloch v. Maryland
(1819), when it said that in regards to the Second Bank of the
United States [a Fed predecessor], and the evidence that says the
16th amendment WASN'T properly ratified also states that Ohio
didn't enter the Union until 1953, something that would really
surprise the people who live there.
So we should take this film, which is basically a plea by a
rich guy to not have to pay any taxes, with a grain of salt so big
it would stick in your throat. The question is: does the
entertainment value of the film make it worth seeing despite the
vacuousness and fraudulence of its case?
Probably not, however, the case is mostly that there's no EXACT
law, or so he says, that says anywhere in the voluminous federal
tax code, y'know, the one that was supposed to have simplified
everything in 1986 and since has been amended into incoherence,
that you HAVE to pay taxes unless you want to.
A neat trick if you can get away with it, and he claims that
some 65 million people do. So he goes around asking people in and
out of government what the exact LAW makes the income tax
mandatory, and nobody, it seems can find it. This is most likely
due to the fact that the tax code is so incredibly convoluted that
the whole thing is hard to find. In fact it's been used
successfully to get people off of tax evasion charges. Good for
them.
However the idea that there's some vast conspiracy of bankers
that somehow took over the government back in 1913, is a lot of
horseshit. In fact, he just mentions the two lies in the beginning
and goes for most of the rest of the film asking besides the point
questions and bitching about the IRS.
This film, and those like it, give propaganda a bad name.
Eric Lurio
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