Upping the Ante!

[Brian Rookard]

I used to think that the good people here at Quatloos had some cajones ... boy, was I wrong!

Just looking at this link ... http://www.quatloos.com/hereisthelaw.htm ... and seeing the challenge at the bottom. Why in $#@^%& is the offer for only $10,000,000 to the first person who can prove to the satisfaction of the Appellate and Supreme Court that there is no law requiring the average citizen to pay income taxes?!?

Do you not have the courage of your convictions!

Oh ye of little faith!

You need to up that thing to like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 or something (whatever that number is I just typed).

[webhick]

How about one whole Quibby? A genetically perfect death-proof llama would be priceless...if it weren't for the fact that I put a price on it.

[Famspear]

Brian wrote:

You need to up that thing to like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 or something (whatever that number is I just typed).

I think that's a thousand quadrillion quadrillion.

[Imalawman]

How about one whole Quibby? A genetically perfect death-proof llama would be priceless...if it weren't for the fact that I put a price on it.

One whole quibby? That's unimaginable sum, all I can do is sit back and imagine how big it is.

[webhick]

all I can do is sit back and imagine how big it is.

KEYBOARD ALERT!

[Famspear]

Brian wrote:

You need to up that thing to like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 or something (whatever that number is I just typed).

If I were offered that much money (e.g., winning the lottery, etc.), I could never accept it anyway. You see, it would be taxable, and I could never fit that long number on the teeny space on Form 1040 for "other income." I'd have to attach a manual schedule.

Too much trouble, forget it, keep the money.

[Mr. Mephistopheles]

Brian wrote:

You need to up that thing to like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 or something (whatever that number is I just typed).

I think that's a thousand quadrillion quadrillion.

Consequently this is the same amount that the TP's claim the Grace Commission noted in proclaiming that none of the income tax receipts go to anything other than paying for the debt.

[Cobalt Shiva]

Try $10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

(A googol of dollars.)

Or how about a googolplex of dollars? (That's 1 followed by a googol of zeros.)

[Judge Roy Bean]

A date with Demo?

[Mr. Mephistopheles]

Try $10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00

(A googol of dollars.)

Or how about a googolplex of dollars? (That's 1 followed by a googol of zeros.)

Speaking of "googol"; anyone else here know how Google came to be spelled that way?

[The Observer]

A date with Demo?

No, just offer a free copy of Demo's book on tax protestors. If, by some freak chance, the TP actually wins the challenge nothing is really lost since the book doesn't technically exist.

[Cobalt Shiva]

Speaking of "googol"; anyone else here know how Google came to be spelled that way?

The founders (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) misspelled "googol."

[Imalawman]

A date with Demo?

No, just offer a free copy of Demo's book on tax protestors. If, by some freak chance, the TP actually wins the challenge nothing is really lost since the book doesn't technically exist.

Key word, "technically". It exists in the mind of Demo, it is very real to her.

[Mr. Mephistopheles]

Speaking of "googol"; anyone else here know how Google came to be spelled that way?

The founders (Larry Page and Sergey Brin) misspelled "googol."

The story I've heard is that they intended to call it "Googol". However, they attracted a "major" investor who gave them something like $150,000 seed money. When the investor asked for the payee on the check they replied "Googol", but didn't spell it out. The investor spelled it "google" and they didn't want to point out that he didn't know how to spell "googol". So, they changed the name to "Google", cashed the check and the rest is history.

[RyanMcC]

Brian wrote:

You need to up that thing to like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 or something (whatever that number is I just typed).

If I were offered that much money (e.g., winning the lottery, etc.), I could never accept it anyway. You see, it would be taxable, and I could never fit that long number on the teeny space on Form 1040 for "other income." I'd have to attach a manual schedule.

Too much trouble, forget it, keep the money.

If you won, it would be tax-free. Unless as a $10 million prize recipient, you would no longer be considered an "average American".

Financial & Tax Fraud Education Associates, Inc., the publishers of Quatloos.com, will pay the sum of $10 million in cash to the first person who can prove to the satisfaction of any U.S. Court of Appeals or the U.S. Supreme Court that there is no law that makes the average American liable to pay the income tax.

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You need to up that thing to like 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.00 or something (whatever that number is I just typed).

One Undecillion dollars.