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Snow Knows Fraud NCPs demand "No
taxation by misrepresentation" |
Jim Untershine, GZS of LB, 01-28-03
John Snow is expected to be appointed by President Bush to fill the Secretary of Treasury Cabinet post. Allegations of a misdemeanor traffic violation and a frivolous family law proceeding may be the only thing standing in Snow's way. \1 More than 12 million noncustodial parents (NCP) across the nation are on the edge of their seat in anticipation of the events that may follow.
"No taxation by misrepresentation" may be the credo of this new family law tea party. Provoked by this new age of accountability, John Snow may immediately take action to stop the extermination of taxpayers paying child support and identify the various forms of fraud used against them. Snow is an NCP and father of 2 children involving the state of Maryland. This family law insight may motivate his attempt to snatch heterosexual taxpayers, who dare to raise children, from the jaws of family law genocide. \2
John Snow may have the clarity to identify the ways and means by which implements of our own creation are being used as a weapon of mass destruction against us. John Snow may identify the fraudulent reporting of the financial demands forced on NCPs to the US House Ways and Means Committee and invoke a form of legal dogma by demanding that our legislators "Make it accurate, or make it law". John Snow may demand that states enforce federal laws that protect taxpayers who pay child support from unscrupulous employers, thereby insuring the president's new welfare reform package is a "saving grace" rather than a "coup de grâce".
Every NCP, who is Secretary of the Treasury Department, controls the following agencies
The Internal Revenue Service \3 provides American taxpayers with top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all.
The U.S. Secret Service \4 protects our nation's leaders, visiting world leaders, national special security events, and the integrity of the nation's currency and financial systems.
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) \5 supports law enforcement investigative efforts and fosters interagency and global cooperation against domestic and international financial crimes; and to provide U.S. policy makers with strategic analyses of domestic and worldwide money laundering developments, trends and patterns.
Every NCP, who pays child support, is a victim of consumer fraud, \6
Every CP who receives child support is guilty of tax evasion. NCPs must pay income tax on the money they earn to pay child support. The children have no legal right to the money paid for their support. The money that is paid to the CP for child support, which is not used to support the children, becomes tax-free income to the CP.
Every NCP, who pays child support, pays the same taxes as any other taxpayer.
These taxes are used to pay for families on welfare (TANF) and the operating costs of Child Support Enforcement (CSE). NCPs are not only required to pay the TANF benefit amount to keep the family off of the welfare roles, they are forced to pay more. The amount of child support that exceeds the TANF benefits paid to a family on welfare should be recognized as a new version of alimony. Alimony is income received by the CP and must be tax deductible by the NCP.
The following alimony data is the result of subtracting the AllLaw.com interstate child support guidelines from the interstate TANF benefits ($4,400/mo NCP net income). \7 \8
The average alimony across states is $240/mo for 1 child, $421/mo for 2, and $529/mo for 3.
Georgia leads the nation demanding $776/mo alimony regarding 1 child.
California leads the nation demanding $947/mo alimony regarding 2 children.
California leads the nation demanding $1,212/mo alimony regarding 3 children.
Every NCP, who doesn't pay child support, doesn't pay taxes.
The taxpayers must foot the bill for supporting this NCP's family. The financial demands that are imposed on a NCP depend on that state's child support guideline. The data provided above might lead one to believe that Georgia and California are leading the nation in eliminating taxpayers by driving NCPs into financial insolvency. Many taxpayers may agree that a state's child support guideline should equal the TANF benefits to give the NCP every chance to continue to pay taxes as well as keep their family off of the welfare roles. Believe it or not, that is exactly what our lawmakers are being told by the Institute for Family and Social Responsibility (FASR). \9
The following alimony data is the result of subtracting the FASR interstate child support guidelines from the interstate TANF benefits (regarding 2 children). \7 \10
The average alimony across states is $-42/mo (negative alimony reflects child support demanded is less than TANF benefits)
Indiana leads the nation demanding $323/mo alimony (FASR is based out of the University of Indiana at Bloomington).
California ranks 25th in the nation demanding $-43/mo alimony
Alaska is last in the nation demanding $-555/mo alimony
Every NCP, who doesn't pay child support, is unemployed.
Garnishing NCP unemployment benefits will not keep the CP off of the welfare roles. Some states may be guilty of eliminating taxpayers by denying the NCP federal protection regarding employer discrimination due to the existence of child support garnishments \11 that is padded with this new version of alimony. NCPs can have as much as 65% of their gross income garnished by an employer regarding child support obligations. \12 An NCP who suffers a 65% pay cut may not maintain the same level of productivity. The employer may "see the writing on the wall" regarding this unfortunate employee, who was thrown to the family law wolves, and expedite this NCP's termination. Upon termination of employment, the NCP's income now becomes imputed with regard to child support obligations, and the arrearage plus interest continues to grow which exiles this NCP to self-employment. NCPs take great comfort in the fact that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does not do the same.
Citations:
Jim Untershine, 824 E Pass Rd #3, Gulfport, MS 39507, gzs@gndzerosrv.com, www.gndzerosrv.com
Jim Untershine holds a BSEE from Mississippi State University and has 13 years experience in feedback control system design. Mr. Untershine is currently using the teachings of Werner Heisenberg and Henry David Thoreau to expose Family Law in California as the exploitation of children for money and the indentured servitude of heterosexual taxpayers who dare to raise children in this country.
MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer, 01-22-03
WASHINGTON - The White House says revelations that John Snow was arrested for drunken driving in 1982 and was involved in a child-support dispute with his ex-wife should not disqualify him from joining President George W. Bush's Cabinet as Treasury secretary.
The Bush administration learned about both issues as part of its vetting process of Snow's nomination, presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters late Tuesday "It's not relevant to his duties. We support him," Fleischer said.
Fleischer spoke after the Senate Finance Committee released a questionnaire Snow filled out in which he was asked, among other things, whether he had ever been charged with a criminal offense.
"In 1982 I was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol in West Valley City, Utah," Snow said. "I was never convicted of that charge and the prosecuting attorney voluntarily dismissed the charge before trial."
Snow said that in connection with the incident he paid a $334 fine "for making an unauthorized left turn with my automobile. I have never been charged with or convicted of any other offense."
In an addendum to the questionnaire, Snow disclosed that his ex-wife, Frederica Wheeler, sued him in Montgomery County, Maryland, in March 1988, alleging that he failed to pay child support and other costs associated with the care of his two sons.
Snow said he denied the charges, but the court found he failed to pay child support for his son Ian over a 19-month period and failed to pay Ian's transportation and allowance costs at college.
Snow told the committee that he and his ex-wife settled the dispute in January 1991 "to spare the family the difficulty of a trial."
Reached late Tuesday night, Snow spokesman Dan Murphy said Snow would not have any further comment.
"This is a personal issue and the White House is the best place for comment," Murphy said.
Fleischer noted that the DUI charges had been dismissed. He said in the child-support dispute, the ex-wife's claim was made even though the son had lived with Snow and Snow believed he had fulfilled his obligations under the agreement.
Bush picked Snow, chairman of the CSX Corp. railroad company, last month to replace his first Treasury secretary, Paul O'Neill, who was ousted in a Cabinet shake-up of the administration's economic team.
Snow, who is scheduled to appear for a one-day Senate hearing Jan. 28, had been expected to face tough questioning about Bush's new $674 billion economic stimulus program, which Democrats contend is weighted too heavily toward tax breaks for the wealthy and provides too little immediate support for the struggling economy.
It was unclear how the new revelations might affect the nomination, which had been expected to encounter little opposition.
Snow has announced that he would forgo a lucrative severance package estimated to total up to $15 million that the CSX board could have awarded him.
Given last year's revelations about corporate accounting scandals, Snow was also expected to face questions next week about his management decisions as the head of CSX, the Richmond, Virginia-based railroad that he built into the largest freight line in the Eastern United States.
Snow, who held several top jobs in the Ford administration, has won widespread praise from business groups and lawmakers for his consensus-building abilities and his skill at dealing with Congress.
Supporters say he will be a capable salesman for the administration's economic program, in contrast to the sharp-spoken O'Neill.