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Show The Paper rtiat Dares To Take A Stand Page 4 The Utah Independent July 1, 1976 IRS AGENTS SUED Mr. John E. Grandbouche is proceeding in court with his suit against three IRS agents. This case filed February 25, 1975 is in the U.S. District Court, Denver, Colorado. It is being presided over by Judge Winner, who has overruled the government's motion to dismiss" on their stand of sovereign immunity". Judge Winner dismissed the ' United States government in the case, but ruled the agents must stand trial. He also ruled that the evidence must be heard by a jury and that it appeared to be a definite violation of the plaintiffs 4th Amentment rights. Mr. Gary Mason, who was hearing, present at the pre-tricommented that this is the first time that agents have had to stand trial on these charges; where it was not first dismissed by the court, forcing the tax protestor into the appellate court in order to proceed. This, as many already know, is a long drawn out process. The trial will be held sometime after September 1st of this year, according to Judge Winner. Mr. Grandbouche is acting in his own behalf. Fifty local attorneys turned down the opportunity to defend him. Only twelve responded to his al and against the IRS. Mr. Grandbouche has joined other tax strikers in presenting k three classes a year on procedures for the tax fight. This action has resulted in hundreds in Denver filing 5th Amendment returns. The IRS in a countermove against him, has him- under criminal investigation for failure to file. The IRS proceeded him last November by against coming to his place of business on the 5th and reading him his rights and advising him that he was under criminal investigation. Mr. Grandbouche was on a five-hotalk show the night before that reached 32 to 34 states. The subject being discussed was income tax. He proceeded about his business undisturbed. On January 6, 1976 the IRS demanded his records through his bank. The bank, being forewarned that Mr. Grandbouche would bring suit against them, denied the IRS access. On April 7th two carloads nine-wee- - Coin-cident- ly ur of agents descended on his business and gave him a summons to appear at the IRS downtown office with his books and records. Mr. Grandbouche called the IRS the next day and advised them he would be happy to honor the summons but would produce no records. The District Manager, and business affairs. Arid how many Americans believe Americanism is worth preserving, the Constitution worth . that are the only effective displacement for the empty promises of socialism. Labor Is not a commodity. ANTI-POLLUTI- by the bank Mr. BLAMED and bank attorney and Mr. Grandbouche to file their answers. Mr. Eason of the bank filed a very complete answer to the judge's request and the U.S. Attorneys answer sighting the various court references of law on both sides. Mr. Grandbouche filed an answer giving the arguments that the latest Supreme Court decision did not address. The judge's attitude in this decision seems most favorable to the tax protestor because it was proven in court that the intent of the government was a criminal indictment, prior to their request for bank records (Donaldson vs. U.S.) and therefore sustains one under the 5th Amendment. Regardless of the outcome of the judges decision, Mr. Grandbouche is going to take this all the way, as khe sees the vacillating Supreme Court decisions as an extreme, weak, and defensive rationalizing situation and about to collapse in the taxpayers favor. The timing is right. Latest happening Notice has just been received from Judge Matches court that the hearing with the IRS and 1st National Bank with John Grandbouche as intervener will be July 13, 8:00 AM, 20th Stout, Denver, Colo. Judge Matche said in his letter: Be prepared to argue Fisher Vs. U.S. 74-18- ." Jli Independent Salt Lake City, Utah The Utah Independent is published by the Utah Independent each Tuesday at 57 East Oakland Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah 84115. Yearly subscription rate is $10.00 by surface mail in the United States, $15.00 foreign. cnd 2 . The Second Class Postage Continued from page of private When a property, free market, limited government principles states his position, he is inevitably confronted with a barrage of socialistic cliches. Failure to answer these has effectively silenced many a spokesman for freedom. Here are suggested answers to some of the most persistent of the "Cliches of Socialism." These are not the only answers or even the best possible answers; but they may help you or others to develop better, explanations of the ideas on liberty restoring, America and its ideals worth defending and Patriotism the highest calling of politicians? And that while we shouldn't be the worlds policeman", neither should we stand aside or even It Grandbouches objections. worse give assistance to the world's is cosIRS that snooping appears criminals who make nations capting the bank thousands of dollars tive and destroy life and liberty a year and they are fed up with it. beyond all the tyrants, plagues and They advised Mr. Grandbouche wars that have gone before. that this is the first time a depositor In short, how many people has ever fought this issue. Mr. want to be Americans again? Grandbouche filed a' motion to Sincerely, intervene and went to court right after dozens of phone calls from J. Kesner Kahn other tax fighters had advised him Chicago, 111. 60649 the supreme court had just ruled that the IRS can get bank records. This was challenged in court MOB Grandbouche. The judge severely the IRS for reprimanded proceeding civilly on a criminal charge under 7602 of the IRS Code and ruled it an abuse of process. He demanded the U.S. Attorney file. an answer to his proceeding their erroneously and allowed both the indicated fear of proceeding or disagreement letters- - Mr. Richard Gark, agreed that he was within his rights and advised him that it was the only way he could proceed against him and excused him from the sessions. This was confirmed by letter. The following week the IRS filed a motion to show cause" with the bank and the bank attorney so advised Mr. Grandbouche. The bank has chosen to fight the IRS jf possible and has welcomed Mr. READERS CLICHES OF OUTLOOK SOCIALISIM devotee Paid at Salt Lake City change of addreti forma and correspondence lo 57 East Oakland Avenue. Salt Lake City, Utah 84115 FOR ENERGY CRISIS Dear Editor: Nobody is as dependent upon Arab oil as are the Arabs themselves. What else have they gpt? The Arabs didnt make us dependent upon them for oil, and there's little they could do to now make us less dependent unless it would be to raise their prices. The villains, those who must cariy the blame, are those who have barred coal from the U.S. mob market, the and the ecology nuts. And also the unthinking politicians who allowed themselves to be pressured anti-polluti- into on passing coal-banni- ng regulations without first giving consideration to the economic and social consequences. Together they gave us the energy crisis. Now Americans need not be penalized by either taxes, tariffs or rationing to end the energy crisis; because all that needs to be done is to remove the bans against coalburning and Then, after the economy gets going again, we will have the resources to make real constructive progress against the problems of excessive pollution. Sincerely, coal-minin- g. . BUT WHAT ARE THE COM- MUNISTS UP TO? Throughout most of recorded world history, and even today iir some of the more primitive societies, human beings have been and are treated as animals fit only to serve as slaves under the lash of a master. No civilized person wishes to condone such savagery. A person is not a commodity; each individual is priceless his worth not to be measured or expressed in dollars, or gold, or things. The laborer as such is not a chattel to be sold and bought, owned and controlled by others. Yet, one frequently hears serious debate as to whether labor is a commodity whether the services a laborer renders should be priced in market fashion according to the forces of supply and demand. Apparently, many persons still believe in the old iron law of wages propounded in error by some of the earlier economists. It seemed to them, at the dawn of the industrial revolution, that wages in general could never rise above that bare level at which wage earners could subsist and reproduce their kind. On the basis of that fallacy, Karl Marx advocated political revolution and compulsory communism as the only chance for workers to receive the full produce of their labor. Marx was intelligent enough to recognize that human labor is a scarce factor of production, but he could not or would not see that labor is only one of the costs of production. He seemed to take for granted that somehow someone would accumulate savings and make them available in the form of tools and other capital for use by workers, whether or not a return were allowed on such investment. Nor would Marx recognize that what attracted workers into the factory system was the opportunity they found there to improve their level of living an opportunity for lashing out against Theres nothing new in progress by their own free will and choice. All he could sec was that Communism opposing poverty still existed at the middle of the nineteenth century and he What would be news, because revolution. we havent heard much about it urged In reality, though, a free lately, is what our intelligence market and is, the only escape was, agencies - the CIA and FBI. our internal security institutions from of workers from feudal poverty and serfdom, their only opthe committees of congress to our local police - have been finding out portunity for progress. Yet Marx about the activities of our enemies. and his followers, by confiscating Who is involved and what their private property, would destroy the market mechanism for price interlocking connections are. and voluntary What their goals, actions and determination And most im- exchange, and with it all hope for progress are. portantly, why we need defend ourselves. Should we expect less from Americas free press?.,.. Monopolies, postal, social This lashing out against America's intelligence and internal security agencies is nothing new. The press is treating it as news, but it's the same old Communist security, Utahs Largest and Fastest- - Growing Subscription Weekly union, business, whatever, all alike only serve to When buying a used car. get keep out those who would give us taken for a ride before you buy. consumers more for less. relief of poverty. It is the free market and competition among employers for the services of wage earners that make workers independent of arbitrary discretion on the part of the employer. Within broad limits set by what consumers are willing to pay for finished products, a wage earner is free to shop around for the job opportunity of his choice. What makes the worker a free man is precisely the fact that the employer, under the pressure of the markets price structure, considers labor a commodity, an instrument of earning profits Labor is appraised like a commodity not because the entrepreneurs and capitalists are hardhearted and callous, but because they are unconditionally subject to the supremacy of the pitiless consumers1. It is the prospect of profit from employing laborers of given skills that drives businessmen to compete and bid wage rates up to the limit consumers will allow. If present entrepreneurs ignore such profit opportunities, then others will enter the business perhaps some of the wage earners themselves. To say that labor is a commodity in this situation simply means that the individual wage earner is free to shop around and sell his services to the highest bidder or free to be selfpem-ploye- d or unemployed if no bid suits him. In this connection, it should be clear that the worth of every mans service is similarly determined; whether he be a strictly unskilled laborer or the most skilled, artist, teacher, minister, butcher, baker, lawyer, engineer, business executive, or whatever. If he offers a service for sale, its value depends upon the highest bid acceptable to him in the free market. The seller of. services, of course, is not free to compel consumers to pay prices high enough to cover every conceivable wage demand. But, short of government compulsion in such forms as minimum wage laws, unemployment conpensation, and the like, no one has such power over consumers. So, the wage earners alternatives are to sell his services at market rates, as other scarce factors of production are priced in a market economy, or to work under the decree of a dictator of one kind or another. The wage earner himself is no more a commodity than is the farmer whose labor results in a bag of potatoes. But the farmer should be free to sell either his labor or bis potatoes; and so should every wage earner be free to offer his services as a commodity. Laborers or others who argue that labor is not ar commodity would thus deny freedom of exchange, which is the economic method and the only one that assures the laborer true and full value for his services Ludwig von Miscs, Human Action (New Haven, Conn.: Yale highly 1 University Press, 1949), pp. 605-2- 9- Paul L Poirot It is better identified with I o be a small that seems to be minority losing now but will ultimately win. than with a gigantic throng which seems to he winning now. but will ultimately lose. Woodrow Wilson |