Taxcheat Stamps! Strike back at tax cheat Tim Geithner

6 Responses to “Taxcheat Stamps! Strike back at tax cheat Tim Geithner”

1. Mark T on February 9th, 2009 7:39 am

   We are seeing the results of America’s transition into the deepest straits of decay. It is a result of years of violating the foundations that this country is based on. The people have let themselves down by seeking others to lead and provide for them and taking no action when things go so terribly wrong. Comments by many in many different venues all speak of the bad things that are going on but words are cheap. Where are the actions to remove those who have proven themselves to be self serving and not servants? Why do most not hold their representatives accountable for their inactions? In years past the comments by our leadership would cause outcrys of rage and disgust. Today there is only apathy and silence. We have become slaves to our government, wall street, and now the foreign countries who are loaning America into the trap of destruction. The actions taken by Americans in this time will determine the course of our country, not the actions of government. I encourage each who cares and wants a return to our foundations to speak and act. Collectively the people have no equal. Divided we shall fail and be conquered by the few.

2. brooke on February 9th, 2009 8:58 am

   Brilliant! passive-aggressive but brilliant.

3. L on February 9th, 2009 9:30 am

   the only criminal statute regulating the
   destruction or defacement of U.S. currency requires fraudulent intent.
   The statute itself is broader than simply banning the fraudulent
   modification or attempt to pass defaced currency:

   ———————————-
   Title 18 United States Code, Section 331

   Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, diminishes,
   falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints of
   the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made current
   or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United States;
   or

   Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells,
   or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the
   United States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced,
   mutilated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened -

   Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five
   years, or both
   ———————————-

   This statute can be found online on Cornell Law School’s Legal
   Information Institute website:
   http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/331.html

   The statute is also available on the website of the United States Mint
   (where they emphasize the word “fraudulently”.
   http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/18USC331.cfm

   There are, however, intellectual property factors which must also be
   considered, if the currency is modified instead of being destroyed.
   The United States Mint owns, by assignment, the design of several
   commemorative designs. The statute authorizing this ownership by
   assignment, 17 USC 105, is also found on Cornell Law School’s Legal
   Information Institute website:
   http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/105.html

   An official summary of the law governing the alteration, destruction,
   or use of United States currency in advertising, may be found on the
   United States Mint website’s Business Awareness section:
   http://www.usmint.gov/consumer/index.cfm?flash=yes&action=busguide&sub=Altered

   Research strategy:

   I started by looking up the statute on Cornell Law School’s Legal
   Information Institute website, Title 18 (Crimes and Criminal
   Procedure), search term “mutilated coins”:
   http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/

   I then searched Google for the specific statute, “18 USC 331″ (“USC”
   being the standard abbreviation of “United States Code”):
   ://www.google.com/search?q=%2218+USC+331%22

   I verified the results through a subscription service, Westlaw, using
   the United States Code library (This is a paid site. You can purchase
   a subscription, or access its databases on a fee per search basis):
   http://www.westlaw.com/

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6. Linda on March 9th, 2009 12:59 pm

   Wow…now the guy who started taxcheatstamps.com is being audited! Are we surprised.

   http://www.mwilliams.info/archive/2009/03/political-persecution-audited-for-taxcheatstampscom.php

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