Publicani

Here are my comments on Jacob Hornberger’s article The Ultimate Tax Cut published on LewRockwell.com.

First, let me list the points, as I understood them, with which I wholeheartedly agree.

AGREE:

Income tax kills freedom.

People cannot be free in a society in which the government has the power to levy taxes on income. To put it another way, people are free only when they have the ability to keep everything they earn and decide for themselves what to do with their own money. [Read more →]

“I am just a private citizen who is sick and tired of other people coming to me and taking something from me and explaining to me that’s it’s done in my own interest.”

From the “MaryAnne Show” on WGCH (1490am) on Friday 4/11.

Q. Once again, we are speaking to Zak Maymin. He wrote a book “Publicani.” He came over here with his family from Russia in 1980. He is here about 28 years now and we are happy you do. So, Mr. Maymin, you are not happy with the government of the United States, or you were not?

A. I was happy, I am not happy right now.

Q. You are not happy right now?

A. And it’s not just the government, I am not happy with the people. [Read more →]

My son, Phil Maymin, wrote an article in Fairfield Weekly about me, Publicani, and the income tax.
Here it is:

“You never hear people badmouth the income tax anymore. Not even this week, when each of our three hundred thousand Fairfield County households will on average fork over twenty thousand dollars, hundreds of pieces of private and personal information, dozens of otherwise enjoyable hours, and all of our self-respect.

Maybe it’s the Helsinki Syndrome in action, where, as hostages, we begin to sympathize with our captors who punish and rape us. Whatever the reason, it’s nearly impossible to say the income tax is evil. You’re either labeled a nut, an insurgent, or a greedy bastard. But is it really crazy to observe that an income tax penalizes effort? Is it really unpatriotic to want your country to be free? Is it greedy to want to keep what’s yours? [Read more →]

Here is a link to Zak Maymin’s interview about Publicani and the Income Tax on the “MaryAnne Show” on WGCH (1490am), Friday 4/11 5:30pm EST.

Zak Maymin, author of Publicani, will be featured on the “Live! with Lisa” show on WYBC(1340 AM) on Saturday 4/12 at 10:30 am EST.

http://www.livewithlisaradio.com/

Zak Maymin, Author of Publicani, will be featured on the “MaryAnne Show” on WGCH (1490am) on Friday 4/11 5:30-5:45pm EST.

You can listen online by clicking here just before 5:30pm.
http://www.warpradio.com/player/stream.asp?id=1675

 Iraq… world’s highest percentage of people in prison… warrantless phone and email searches… Fed printing money as if there’s no tomorrow… state prevention of medical use of marijuana and other drugs… suspension of  habeas corpus… searching your shoes at the airports… government’s new authority for taking private property from one citizen to selling it to another for profit because of the “public benefit” in higher tax revenue…

…these are examples of the modern state of the USA. 

Those are just some examples: not necessarily the best examples, just indicators pointing to a rotten state.

Before we discuss what is the root of these problems, who do you think the enemy is?  The lobbyists? Potential terrorists? The rich?

It feels like a seven-headed dragon is conducting a full-scale assault on our life, property, and liberty, attacking us from the left and right - both Republicans and Democrats voted for the Iraq war and the Patriot Act.  Attacking us from above and below - both the government makes laws assaulting our liberties and the people keep voting for such a government. [Read more →]

This was published on OpEdNews.

Two remarkable events happened during this presidential cycle that went underreported by big media but produced huge splashes on the internet. The first was the song sung by John McCain answering a question about the Middle East. The other was the whisper, probably coming from a hidden wire worn by Romney during a debate.

Yesterday, the Song “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran” was officially endorsed by the Whisper “He raised taxes, I am not gonna.”

“This is a man capable of leading our country at a dangerous hour,” said Mitt the Whisper about John the Song. “Senator McCain understands the war we are in, the necessity of victory, and the consequences of surrender.” [Read more →]

 Finally, the book is out. I could not secure financing to make the movie, so I wrote the book in the hope that one day it’ll lead to the movie.

I am nervous. I feel like I am letting my child go to the world, to be judged by strangers. I don’t know whether it’ll be a success or a failure, it’s out of my control now, but I know I did the best I could. [Read more →]

Annoying someone via the Internet is now a federal crime

DIEBOLD MISCOUNTS REPORTED ACROSS MANY CANDIDATES, WARDS, IN FIRST DAY OF ELECTION CONTEST HAND COUNTS

ACLU Sues Law Enforcement for Shielding President Bush From Protestors [Read more →]