New Revenue Ruling?

[Dr. Caligari]

3. No, no civil or criminal penalty has ever been sustained for following the law (as explained in CtC) to my knowledge.

So all those people who post on Lost Horizons about being assessed frivolous return penalties are lying?

[grixit]

Personally, I think my side of the family is way more cool. I've got Christopher Reeve, Benjamin Spock, and Edward Gorey as distant cousins on the plus side.

Oooh, imagine tps getting the Gorey treatment! I can just see it-- a gaunt eyed figure furtively approaching a ramshackle house. After glancing around to make sure the coast is clear, the figure approaches the front door. A neatly engraved sign says "No Solicitors or Feds". The figure knocks. "What's the password?" demands a voice from inside. "Render unto God the things that are God's. And render unto Caesar nothing!" the figure answers. "Enter, Friend John" comes the respionse.

We then see John's hightop sneakers descending a creaking starway into a dark and cobwebby basement. A bare 40 watt bulb picks out a threadbare Don't Tread on Me flag and a group of seedy looking individuals sitting around a spool table.

They look up expectantly as John enters, but then all glower when they see his hands are empty. Everyone is thirsty, but somehow, it is always someone else's turn to bring the beer.

(I would have included the fantad, but it was out walking the dog.)

[grixit]

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."

Did he say this before or after Shay's Rebellion?

[Demosthenes]

Personally, I think my side of the family is way more cool. I've got Christopher Reeve, Benjamin Spock, and Edward Gorey as distant cousins on the plus side.

Oooh, imagine tps getting the Gorey treatment! I can just see it-- a gaunt eyed figure furtively approaching a ramshackle house. After glancing around to make sure the coast is clear, the figure approaches the front door. A neatly engraved sign says "No Solicitors or Feds". The figure knocks. "What's the password?" demands a voice from inside. "Render unto God the things that are God's. And render unto Caesar nothing!" the figure answers. "Enter, Friend John" comes the respionse.

We then see John's hightop sneakers descending a creaking starway into a dark and cobwebby basement. A bare 40 watt bulb picks out a threadbare Don't Tread on Me flag and a group of seedy looking individuals sitting around a spool table.

They look up expectantly as John enters, but then all glower when they see his hands are empty. Everyone is thirsty, but somehow, it is always someone else's turn to bring the beer.

(I would have included the fantad, but it was out walking the dog.)

Gold star for Grixit.

[Dr. Caligari]

Did he say this before or after Shay's Rebellion?

Or, more to the point, the Whiskey Rebellion?