THE TAX GAME, A SOURCE OF REVENUE FOR WHOM?
In this section, let us consider a source of revenue that stands above and beyond any scrutiny and which poses questions of a very serious nature. We will use the Internal Revenue Service in the US and the US debt situation as examples of a widespread practice in ALL nations of the world today, regardless of political system.
The Internal Revenue Service
We wish to bring to the attention of the readers of the United States and other countries with sophisticated tax systems that what appears to be the government collecting taxes is often not the case. The Internal Revenue Service of the US is statutorily an independent entity, separate from the US government and therefore does not fall under the system of checks and balances inscribed in the constitution.
As a separate entity from the US Government, the IRS collects vast sums of money (billions if not trillions of dollars) from all the US citizens, then hands over to the US government whatever it needs to function. One of the more egregious aspects of this arrangement is that the IRS answers to no one. It has never been audited and the citizens of the US never know just how much it takes in and where the money goes. All we know is that the amount the IRS gives theUS government is never enough to pay for the government's proper functioning. To repeat our observation:
The people of the US have never known how much money the IRS takes in. It only knows the amount the IRS gives to the US government.
We note this same arrangement in almost all the other nations on earth.
The National Debt
Because the IRS never gives the ever-expanding US government enough funds to function fully, the US Treasury Department within the government is obliged to borrow funds from the open financial markets. (It has recently stated its intentions to raid the Social Security Trust Fund designed as a form of retirement savings for the people.) In order to borrow funds from the world's financial markets, the Treasury Department issues promissory notes in the form of Treasury Bills, Notes, and long and short-term Bonds all of which promise the investor a set amount of interest over a set period of time.
The US Treasury sells these promissory notes to whomever wants to buy them on the open financial markets, i.e. in the banks, stock markets and bourses all around the world. Buyers around the world purchase these financial instruments during times of crisis because they trust the US government guarantees that it will redeem those notes in the future. By making its debt public the US government has absolutely no idea to whom it is indebting itself to the tune of trillions of dollars. We ask you, the reader, if you know to whom the US government has indebted itself and to what extent (in the trillions of US dollars) does this indebtedness constitute the real influence on the government? In other words, should we not assume that the party or parties which own the US government debt can exercise a tremendous influence on the government.
For example, we know that the Japanese government owns billions of these instruments and recently impressed upon the US government to keep the currency exchange rates favorable to Japanese exports in exchange for not calling back its treasury bills. If Japan had repatriated these funds, the financial markets would have crashed. This is an example of how just one of the debtors could cause panic in the US financial system. And this is a publicly known debtor.
Any intelligent individual who has borrowed money during his lifetime knows the power the bank holds over him or herself. If you don't pay your mortgage, the bank will take away your home. If you don't make your car payments, the finance company will seize your car. So the question every citizen of the US and other countries whose governments are operating on a deficit should ask is: To Whom are We Indebted?
The answer to this question lies in the foregoing sections and it now becomes clearer why certain nations act they way they do and how much power is wielded upon the leaders of countries in the world. It is a flagrant (and Atlantean) use of money to control national governments, from the most powerful to the weakest, in the world. It is through this manner that the nations of the world are seen as mere puppets of greater forces jockeying to control the world.
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