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 YesToHellWith exposes the lies and condemns them to hell.

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  • The Victory tax...

    The Victory tax...
    Nov 11 2026
    VICTORY — THE TAX THAT DISAPPEARED, BUT LEFT THE MACHINE BEHINDHow do you defeat a government machine when you refuse to examine the people who built it?For decades, the tax-honesty and freedom movements have recycled the same arguments about words, definitions, statutes, and jurisdiction. There have been courageous individuals, but courage without an effective strategy has produced precious little institutional change.The dinosaurs of these movements must either change their tactics or make room for fresh ideas, new voices, and a fundamentally different approach.We must examine the human beings behind the expansion of federal power: the judges who ignored constitutional boundaries, the legislators who enlarged governmental without authority, and the executive officials who aggrandized the government into an immense enforcement apparatus.We must understand their ambitions, presumptions, institutional interests, and the circumstances they exploited.That is precisely what the Liberty Dialogues Victory Series undertakes.A telling observation:In 1939, only about 5% of American workers paid federal income taxes. By 1945, approximately 90% were filing returns, and 60% were paying income taxes.How did that happen?The Victory Series has traced the federal government’s claimed authority to tax the ordinary earnings of private Americans back through the founding of the Republic. Our examination challenges the failure to establish an original constitutional delegation for that general exaction.Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court’s decisions, particularly during the 1930s, supplied the judicial framework upon which Congress and the executive branch proceeded.President Franklin Roosevelt, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., and specific congressional leaders then expanded the machinery.And in 1942, Congress enacted the extraordinary Victory Tax.It reached millions of lower-income Americans who had previously escaped regular federal income-tax liability.But there was another objective.On November 24, 1943, Congressman Wilbur Mills explained that the Victory Tax provided experience with employer withholding that could subsequently be extended to the regular income tax.The machinery’s future application was contemplated from the beginning.The Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 made widespread withholding a permanent feature of federal income-tax administration.Private employers were compelled to become unpaid federal tax-collection intermediaries—deducting taxes from their workers’ earnings, keeping records, and delivering the money to Treasury.Meanwhile, the government used patriotic persuasion, including Disney’s Donald Duck film The New Spirit, to portray compliance as willing participation in defending America. I deem this a psychological operation campaign.Then came another extraordinary revelation.The Senate Finance Committee expressly sought to retain approximately 11 million Americans who had been subject only to the Victory Tax. It even rejected a Treasury proposal that would have relieved approximately nine million people of income-tax liability.In 1944, Congress repealed the temporary Victory Tax.But the collection machine survived.And the government continued operating through the system that wartime legislation had helped establish.Consider the implications.The judiciary supplied only judicial precedent. Congress expanded the statutory reach. The executive branch built the enforcement apparatus.But the accumulated actions of three branches of government cannot manufacture a constitutional power that was never delegated.This is why we must move beyond the tired arguments of the freedom movement.We must expose the historical decisions, identify the individuals responsible, defeat unsupported presumptions, and pursue meaningful remedies.That is the mission of LibertyDialogues.com, working alongside ConstitutionalCounty.org to promote constitutional accountability beginning at the local level.And the work is not confined to books or videos. Students of the Liberty Dialogues System are reporting victories in courts and before government agencies around the globe.The objective is not to argue endlessly about freedom. It is to exercise our rights, challenge unlawful assertions of authority, and obtain results.Visit TheyNeverHadIt.com. Examine the historical evidence. Study the Liberty Dialogues System. Become involved through ConstitutionalCounty.org.And demand that every governmental assertion of authority be traced to its legitimate constitutional foundation.Government does not acquire constitutional authority simply by exercising power. And the American people will never restore their freedom until they demand that every exercise of governmental power be justified under the Constitution. Get full access to YesToHellWith at yestohellwith.substack.com/subscribe
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    8 mins
  • Attorneys or Snakes?

    Attorneys or Snakes?
    Nov 10 2026
    ATTORNEYS: GUARDIANS OF JUSTICE OR SERVANTS OF THE SYSTEM?How can a profession be entrusted with defending the American people against abuses of governmental power when its livelihood, advancement, and professional standing depend upon the very system it is expected to challenge?There is a reason attorneys have been compared to snakes, pond scum, and worse for centuries.But perhaps the greatest paradox surrounding the attorney profession is that we laugh at attorneys collectively, yet frequently admire them individually.We tell jokes about their greed, their dishonesty, their manipulation of language, and their disregard for truth.Yet when someone introduces himself as an attorney, we suddenly treat him with respect. We presume intelligence, credibility, and authority.Why?What happened to the joke?Did the profession suddenly become honorable because one of its members walked into the room?Or have we developed the extraordinary habit of ridiculing a profession while simultaneously rewarding its members with the very respect and authority our ridicule calls into question?Perhaps the greatest joke about attorneys is not the one we tell about them. It is the one we play upon ourselves by continuing to presume that professional credentials establish personal integrity.And that brings us to the real scandal.We have allowed a professional class to become the gatekeeper of justice in a republic supposedly founded upon the inherent rights of the people.Think about the contradiction.We are told our rights are inalienable. That they do not originate with government. That government exists to secure them.Yet when government threatens those rights, the ordinary American is frequently compelled, as a practical matter, to hire a licensed attorney to defend what was never government’s to take.And that attorney earns his living within the very system whose authority he is expected to challenge.Does anyone recognize the fundamental conflict?Attorneys are trained to manipulate language, to parse, qualify, distinguish, and reinterpret words until a simple question of right and wrong becomes an exhausting contest of procedure.They can argue one proposition today and its opposite tomorrow.They can transform a question of inherent rights into a dispute over technicalities, deadlines, jurisdiction, standing, precedent, and procedural compliance.Some of those distinctions are essential to justice. But others can become instruments for avoiding the very truth the proceeding is supposed to establish.And when procedure becomes more important than truth, the judicial system ceases to be an instrument of justice and becomes an instrument of institutional self-preservation.Now consider the financial incentives.Law firms must generate revenue. Attorneys must manage their time. Prosecutors face enormous caseloads. Public defenders are frequently overwhelmed. Courts are pressured to dispose of matters efficiently.And what is the predictable result?Settlement. Negotiation. Plea bargaining.The overwhelming majority of federal criminal convictions result from guilty pleas rather than jury verdicts.The right to trial by jury remains celebrated as a cornerstone of American liberty, yet comparatively few federal criminal defendants exercise that right through a completed trial.Why?Because the system rewards negotiated dispositions, while the risks and costs of proceeding to trial can be extraordinary.Justice is not supposed to be a production line.Yet we have developed a system in which efficiency can become more important than examining the government’s accusations.And the attorney class is indispensable to keeping that machinery operating.I experienced this firsthand.During my own confrontation with the federal government, I was represented by public defenders with impressive credentials.One had graduated second in his class at West Point.Yet when I sought to present arguments concerning my understanding of the federal income tax laws, arguments I believed were supported by Cheek v. United States, I was told that counsel could be sanctioned for raising them.Understand the significance.In Cheek, the Supreme Court recognized that a genuinely held misunderstanding of federal tax law can negate the willfulness required for certain criminal tax offenses, even if that misunderstanding is unreasonable.The Court also distinguished such misunderstandings from claims that the tax laws themselves are unconstitutional.But my central concern was that arguments I believed relevant to my state of mind were being excluded from the defense I wanted presented.And that raises a fundamental question:When a man faces imprisonment, should his ability to present a legitimate defense depend upon an attorney’s fear of professional consequences?The answer should be obvious.I also know of an individual who paid approximately $65,000 to a private attorney associated with the tax-honesty movement, only to be advised ultimately to accept a plea agreement.It ...
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    14 mins
  • The Vicious Cycle

    The Vicious Cycle
    Nov 8 2026
    THE VICIOUS CYCLEHow Our Own Ignorance Destroys Our Freedom—and How We Can Break the CycleWhat if the greatest threat to your freedom is not the government—but your own ignorance?And what if the very people you elect to protect your freedom are the ones who take it away, with your consent at the ballot box?I believe there is a fundamental truth about human nature that is nearly inescapable.Often, the greatest harm we suffer is the harm we inflict upon ourselves. And tragically, that harm seldom ends with us.Examine your own life.Think about the decisions you have made out of ignorance, anger, resentment, greed, jealousy, or spite.Think about a time when you reached a conclusion without knowing the facts. You presumed something was true, acted upon that presumption, and later discovered that what you believed was entirely false.What were the consequences?Did you damage a relationship? Lose an opportunity? Hurt someone you loved? Destroy something valuable that you could never recover?And did you learn from it?Most of us like to believe we are reasonable people. That our judgments are sound. That our opinions are informed.But how often do we confuse our emotions with the truth? How often do we refuse to examine evidence because discovering the truth might require acknowledging that we were wrong?That is willful ignorance. And willful ignorance is particularly destructive because it is a condition we choose to maintain.Now consider what happens when we take this same human weakness and apply it to the American political system.Millions of Americans go to the polls without a meaningful understanding of their rights, their freedoms, or the constitutional limitations upon governmental power.And whom do they elect?People drawn from that very same population.If the electorate is generally ignorant of constitutional constraints, why should we presume that those elected from it possess some extraordinary understanding of those constraints?We elect representatives who may be just as ignorant as we are, entrust them with governmental authority, and watch as they enact legislation, expand regulations, and exercise increasing control over our lives.And who suffers the consequences?We do.Then, rather than examine our responsibility for creating this condition, we blame the politicians, the opposing party, or the government itself.But who placed these people in office?Who voted based upon emotion, personality, promises, fear, or political allegiance rather than an informed understanding of constitutional authority?We did.And therein lies the vicious cycle.An uninformed population elects uninformed representatives who exceed their constitutional authority, producing increasingly expansive and controlling legislation over the generally ignorant people who elected them.Consider the enormous problems confronting America today.Government spending. Public debt. Immigration. Economic instability. Governmental intrusion into the lives of peaceful Americans.People argue endlessly about these issues.But how many begin with the most fundamental question of all?BY WHAT CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY?Not whether a policy is popular.Not whether it makes us feel good.Not whether our favorite politician supports it.But whether the government possesses the authority to do what it proposes.We proclaim our love of liberty while voting for greater governmental control. We condemn governmental overreach while demanding that government solve problems we have failed to address within ourselves, our families, and our communities.We talk about freedom. But do we walk in freedom?An individual who refuses to examine his own thinking may destroy a marriage.A population that refuses to examine its own thinking may destroy a republic.The underlying failure is remarkably similar.We substitute presumption for knowledge, emotion for reason, and allegiance for principle.But how do we break this vicious cycle?We begin where we live.Not in Washington, D.C.Not with another national election.But in our own counties, among our neighbors, within our communities, and with the public servants whose authority we can examine most directly.This is the fundamental value of ConstitutionalCounty.org.The Constitutional County concept offers a direct path toward overcoming the ignorance that perpetuates governmental overreach.Imagine a county in which the people understand their fundamental rights, study their state and federal constitutions, and recognize the limitations upon every public office.Imagine a sheriff who understands his oath of office and is committed to protecting the life, liberty, and property of the people, exercising his lawful authority without violating the rights of anyone.And imagine citizens and local officials working together to examine governmental actions, demand evidence of authority, challenge unconstitutional conduct, and pursue accountability through lawful constitutional processes.Not based upon political allegiance.Not based upon ...
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