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What if you had to make a business trip overseas tomorrow only to find
out that, even though the IRS does not issue your passport, the IRS
has revoked your passport? This is a possible reality if Senate Bill
1813 passes through Congress.
SB 1813 is titled, Transportation Research and Innovative Technology
Act of 2012. But, just like the NDAA, this bill has become a Trojan
horse for an assault on the constitutionally protected rights of the
people of this nation. Inserted deep within this bill, in section
40304, is a provision that gives the IRS the power to revoke your
passport for a "seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess
of $50,000." There appears to be no requirement for a judgment by a
court; no conviction for fraud or evasion is required, only a
"certification by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue". This is a
violation of your right to due process. There is also no provision
for Congressional review or approval, therefore this removal of your
passport is facilitated by an unelected official who is completely
immune from political control of the people. This is a prime example
of Legislation without representation. Sure the Senate and House must
pass it, but after that the people's representation is completely
removed and a regulatory agency becomes the dictator of the common
born rights of Americans.
What does the IRS have to do with your passport? How can non-payment
of taxes be the impetus to remove your proof of citizenship or your
right to freely travel? Doesn't the removal of your passport
practically affect the status of your citizenship? Are we now forced
to believe that common rights of Americans, inherited from our Creator
and the blood of our forefathers, are bought by our taxes? If this is
true, we have been truly removed from the character of freemen to the
state of tributary slaves.
For if our Trade may be taxed why not our Lands? Why not the Produce
of our Lands & every thing [sic] we possess or make use of? This we
apprehend annihilates our Charter Right to govern & tax ourselves-- If
Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal
Representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the
Character of free Subjects to the miserable State of tributary
Slaves? [Samuel Adams, May 15, 1764, Boston Record Commissioners'
Report, vol. 16, pp. 120-122, emphasis added]
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