Copy --
Karen Kline
Santa Fe, NM 87505
7/10/96
The Honorable Robert Rubin
Secretary of the Treasury
15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Dear Mr. Rubin,
Yesterday I received the last check I can expect to receive from my
tenant, who is moving. It was only for $320. With the three hundred
and twenty-nine dollars that I have, that gives me a total of six hundred
forty-nine dollars. I tell you this because without a phone I cannot rent
the unit. I say this because I have not been able to rent the other unit I
have, under similar circumstances. Our local newspaper will not take
ads from people who do not have phones. Well, actually, they
originally took my ad, only they didn't run it. My ad had said that I
would hold the rental open and had given the times; I went to the unit
every day for a week, but no one came. Only when I called the paper
to change the word Open, to View, thinking that perhaps people were
thinking my rental ad was a misplaced Home for Sale ad, did I learn
that my ad hadn't run. I said that I was upset they had pulled the ad
and never told me. The newspaper employee with whom I was talking
said, well, I didn't have a phone, in a rather snippy tone. I replied that
she could have written to me. She said she was much too busy to do
that, that she had hundreds of ads like mine to deal with every week.
Oh really, I pressed, she had hundreds of ads from people whose
phones were disconnected and who were therefore running times in
their ads, instead of phone numbers. Well, no, she conceded.
Now, many people have told me to lie about having a phone, to use
some other number. But, you know what, I don't think I should have
to do that. I don't think IRS should have put me out of business, I
don't think IRS should have levied me for a year I had long since paid,
I don't think IRS should have levied me for the wrong amount of
money when they put me out of business, and I don't think I should
have to have a phone or use a phone to get an ad run. (As an aside, it
is also the case that my dentist refuses to give me dental care unless I
use a phone, which, again, I find disturbing.)
Since I have stated, because I mean it, that I will kill myself when
either my home or the properties I was relying on taking care of me in
my old age are foreclosed, or I have no money left, the little amount of
money that I have reflects the little amount of time that I have. That is
why I began this letter as I did.
It is the case that I have a letter from IRS which I received the day
before I received the final check from my tenant. In this letter, a
typical letter, copy enclosed, it says, "We will mail a final response to
you by July 30, 1996.'' Also, I have no idea what the name of the
person is, who signed the letter, since it is unreadable, for me, and
"For" Mark D. Cox. Nor, do I believe, is it the same name as the
printed name given in the text of the third paragraph. Don't you think,
really, that anyone in IRS, dealing with me, in circumstances as serious
as this, should give their name, clearly? Perhaps a basic reason IRS has
begun to treat people as it does, is the namelessness it encourages
within itself. For instance, where does Mr. Cox go to work of a day?
I've previously written him in Albuquerque, but perhaps he really
works in Phoenix. Would you trust a Realtor who behaved like this in
terms of accepting responsibility? Would you want to buy a house
from someone who wouldn't give you clear answers, starting with their
name and the location of their office. Let me tell you, I don't think you
could sell a house if you behaved like this.
Previously I have taken exception at an IRS woman from
Albuquerque, Linda Martinez, telling me that she is my advocate,
clearly meaning to influence me to trust her. I take exception because if
I were to attempt to mislead someone in a similar way, when I was a
Realtor, and if I were successful in getting them to believe that I had
their interests first in my mind rather than the interests of the person
who was paying me and for whom I was an agent, I could be sued. So
that it seems wrong for IRS to do exactly what it is wrong for me to
do. And, I agree that it would be wrong for me to mislead someone in
this manner. Don't you agree?
When I look at this new IRS letter, saying that a final pronouncement
will be made on July 30, 1996, I am struck by two facts: first, I have
been told I would be given a "final" response before, and second, the
words indicate that IRS feels confident about making a unilateral
pronouncement, one which it fully expects me to take as gospel.
Since IRS has been vastly wrong in dealing with me, for years, I do
not look forward to their "final" word as anything more than the same
thing they've already been saying for years: we're right and we have
the power to make you agree.
Well, that's not true. I don't agree. I will kill myself rather than agree
with something that is patently wrong when it is a wrongness that is
affecting many, many people in the most deleterious way. And, if I run
out of money prior to the 30th, I will kill myself then, not waiting for
some ridiculous "final" letter.
I am enclosing for you a copy of my 7/7/96 letter to IRS
Commissioner Richardson, as well as one of its enclosures: 2. a letter
to the American Association of Suicidology; 3. a copy of a letter to
Donald Skadden in which I talk about a letter I wrote to Ralph Castillo,
Treasury Inspector, a copy of my letter to Mr. Castillo I already sent
to Ms. Richardson with my May 9th letter.
Besides the fact that my letter to Mr. Skadden discusses the serious
problems existent with IRS, it is important for me to enclose it because
of its list of enclosures: you will see that I wrote a number of letters to
Valerie Lau, Inspector General Treasury. I did this because I felt that
someone should look into the fact that three independent people told
me the IRS agent who spoke to them about me was behaving as if she
had "a personal vendetta". These people told me this, I didn't apply the
words to them, they gave me the words. I felt that IRS should know
this, and look into it. I foolishly felt, in the beginning, that IRS would
be interested in looking into it. When Mr. Castillo came here from
Phoenix, I was certain he had to be responding to my letters to Ms.
Lau. I kept asking to see the letters he had with him, because I kept
expecting the letters to be to Ms. Lau. But, they were not. It was hard
for me to comprehend who it was to whom I had written that had
caused these inspectors to come, if not someone within IRS. Finally, I
was able to accept the names on the letters he had with him, Skadden
and Rivlin. I had sent a copy of my letter to Alice Rivlin, to Donald
Skadden, because the Rivlin letter was a clear statement of what I
meant.
Look at the enclosed copy of my letter to Donald Skadden following
that visit. Also, read my letter to Ralph Castillo, a copy of which was
made a part of my May 9th set of letters to IRS, which I sent to you as
a bound copy.
I am also enclosing: 4, my letter to Lawrence H. Tribe because it
discusses some of the questions I have, which seem to be the questions
of many Americans, about how IRS can be doing the things it is doing
to Americans, if our constitution has any meaning for us in terms of
giving us certain rights.
Since my printer just ran out of ink I am going to take fifty dollars and
go buy two more cartridges, right this minute. Then I am going to buy
another hundred dollars worth of stamps. Tomorrow, when I am
certain that I have covered all the salient points I meant to cover, I will
add a copy of this letter, and its enclosures, to the bound copy I have
been sending out, and have ten copies of it printed for mailing in the
next few days.
Who am I mailing to? All different people, from well known people I
see on Charlie Rose and The News Hour/to people in businesses
whose products I like, to people who may never ever be on telly, but
who, I think, will find the issues I am raising to be of interest, that is,
people whom I have met and liked and who have understood, when I
have mentioned it, the problem with IRS.
I will also enclose for you, 5. a copy of Merrill McLoughlin's letter
saying my letter to David Gergen, 6. and its enclosures, 7. and 8, my
letters to Montel Williams and to Secretary Cisneros, "have been read
with interest."
7/12/96 I was unable to finish this letter yesterday, partially because I
feel as if you will ignore it, and partially because I feel as if none of the
copies I send out will do any substantial good. I feel as if no one will
credit what I am saying until I am dead. Certainly one of our local
television reporters told me that, that I wasn't news, when I wanted to
have a moment on April 15th to tell viewers to start thinking about the
options they will have when it comes to changing our system of
taxation, and that I wouldn't be news until I was dead. While I was
unable to finish this letter yesterday, I wrote some final letters, to be
mailed on my final trip to the post boxes. I have decided to enclose in
my final letters, a photo of me, so that I don't just throw away the
photos I have of me as I continue to empty my home,and, so that
people to whom I've written for help, can see what I looked like.
The thing is, I have said that I am willing to die for this cause, and that
is true. I believe that when I am dead, what I am saying will no longer
be ignored. Or, maybe it will be, since all the Congressional people to
whom I've written, and been ignored by, will not be interested in
calling for their own resignations as they called for Janet Reno's in
relation to Waco, or Secretary Perry's in relation to the bombing in
Saudi Arabia... Yes, I have written to Arlen Specter.
You know what I think, that it is not the copies of these letters that I
send to members of Congress, or to famous people, that will make the
difference, but rather, the copies I send to people like me, ordinary
people who believe in what is right. This is not to say that I am not
thankful to U.S. News & World Report, because I am. I am also
thankful to the one, most unlikely, person who saw the April 8th U.S.
News article and responded to me, even though he said he couldn't
help.
Because there is a tremendous fear of IRS, I will have printed, in a few
moments, ten covers for this, added to the other sets of letters included
in my bound copies. Each of the covers will be to a friend, not by
name, but simply to: A Friend,Someone Whom I Have Met and
Grown to Like.
I hope that bound copies are passed around, without recipients fearing
to be associated with me; I have been told, often, how much people
fear IRS.
Sincerely,
Karen Kline
Karen Kline
P.S. Printing the ten copies cost $50 -- Tabs cost
$5.00, and binding will cost another $3.00 or so, per copy --
Page 28 (Preceding), Page 32 (Following)
Karen Kline
Santa Fe, NM 87505
7/10/96
The Honorable Robert Rubin
Secretary of the Treasury
15th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, D.C. 20220
Dear Mr. Rubin,
Yesterday I received the last check I can expect to receive from my
tenant, who is moving. It was only for $320. With the three hundred
and twenty-nine dollars that I have, that gives me a total of six hundred
forty-nine dollars. I tell you this because without a phone I cannot rent
the unit. I say this because I have not been able to rent the other unit I
have, under similar circumstances. Our local newspaper will not take
ads from people who do not have phones. Well, actually, they
originally took my ad, only they didn't run it. My ad had said that I
would hold the rental open and had given the times; I went to the unit
every day for a week, but no one came. Only when I called the paper
to change the word Open, to View, thinking that perhaps people were
thinking my rental ad was a misplaced Home for Sale ad, did I learn
that my ad hadn't run. I said that I was upset they had pulled the ad
and never told me. The newspaper employee with whom I was talking
said, well, I didn't have a phone, in a rather snippy tone. I replied that
she could have written to me. She said she was much too busy to do
that, that she had hundreds of ads like mine to deal with every week.
Oh really, I pressed, she had hundreds of ads from people whose
phones were disconnected and who were therefore running times in
their ads, instead of phone numbers. Well, no, she conceded.
Now, many people have told me to lie about having a phone, to use
some other number. But, you know what, I don't think I should have
to do that. I don't think IRS should have put me out of business, I
don't think IRS should have levied me for a year I had long since paid,
I don't think IRS should have levied me for the wrong amount of
money when they put me out of business, and I don't think I should
have to have a phone or use a phone to get an ad run. (As an aside, it
is also the case that my dentist refuses to give me dental care unless I
use a phone, which, again, I find disturbing.)
Since I have stated, because I mean it, that I will kill myself when
either my home or the properties I was relying on taking care of me in
my old age are foreclosed, or I have no money left, the little amount of
money that I have reflects the little amount of time that I have. That is
why I began this letter as I did.
It is the case that I have a letter from IRS which I received the day
before I received the final check from my tenant. In this letter, a
typical letter, copy enclosed, it says, "We will mail a final response to
you by July 30, 1996.'' Also, I have no idea what the name of the
person is, who signed the letter, since it is unreadable, for me, and
"For" Mark D. Cox. Nor, do I believe, is it the same name as the
printed name given in the text of the third paragraph. Don't you think,
really, that anyone in IRS, dealing with me, in circumstances as serious
as this, should give their name, clearly? Perhaps a basic reason IRS has
begun to treat people as it does, is the namelessness it encourages
within itself. For instance, where does Mr. Cox go to work of a day?
I've previously written him in Albuquerque, but perhaps he really
works in Phoenix. Would you trust a Realtor who behaved like this in
terms of accepting responsibility? Would you want to buy a house
from someone who wouldn't give you clear answers, starting with their
name and the location of their office. Let me tell you, I don't think you
could sell a house if you behaved like this.
Previously I have taken exception at an IRS woman from
Albuquerque, Linda Martinez, telling me that she is my advocate,
clearly meaning to influence me to trust her. I take exception because if
I were to attempt to mislead someone in a similar way, when I was a
Realtor, and if I were successful in getting them to believe that I had
their interests first in my mind rather than the interests of the person
who was paying me and for whom I was an agent, I could be sued. So
that it seems wrong for IRS to do exactly what it is wrong for me to
do. And, I agree that it would be wrong for me to mislead someone in
this manner. Don't you agree?
When I look at this new IRS letter, saying that a final pronouncement
will be made on July 30, 1996, I am struck by two facts: first, I have
been told I would be given a "final" response before, and second, the
words indicate that IRS feels confident about making a unilateral
pronouncement, one which it fully expects me to take as gospel.
Since IRS has been vastly wrong in dealing with me, for years, I do
not look forward to their "final" word as anything more than the same
thing they've already been saying for years: we're right and we have
the power to make you agree.
Well, that's not true. I don't agree. I will kill myself rather than agree
with something that is patently wrong when it is a wrongness that is
affecting many, many people in the most deleterious way. And, if I run
out of money prior to the 30th, I will kill myself then, not waiting for
some ridiculous "final" letter.
I am enclosing for you a copy of my 7/7/96 letter to IRS
Commissioner Richardson, as well as one of its enclosures: 2. a letter
to the American Association of Suicidology; 3. a copy of a letter to
Donald Skadden in which I talk about a letter I wrote to Ralph Castillo,
Treasury Inspector, a copy of my letter to Mr. Castillo I already sent
to Ms. Richardson with my May 9th letter.
Besides the fact that my letter to Mr. Skadden discusses the serious
problems existent with IRS, it is important for me to enclose it because
of its list of enclosures: you will see that I wrote a number of letters to
Valerie Lau, Inspector General Treasury. I did this because I felt that
someone should look into the fact that three independent people told
me the IRS agent who spoke to them about me was behaving as if she
had "a personal vendetta". These people told me this, I didn't apply the
words to them, they gave me the words. I felt that IRS should know
this, and look into it. I foolishly felt, in the beginning, that IRS would
be interested in looking into it. When Mr. Castillo came here from
Phoenix, I was certain he had to be responding to my letters to Ms.
Lau. I kept asking to see the letters he had with him, because I kept
expecting the letters to be to Ms. Lau. But, they were not. It was hard
for me to comprehend who it was to whom I had written that had
caused these inspectors to come, if not someone within IRS. Finally, I
was able to accept the names on the letters he had with him, Skadden
and Rivlin. I had sent a copy of my letter to Alice Rivlin, to Donald
Skadden, because the Rivlin letter was a clear statement of what I
meant.
Look at the enclosed copy of my letter to Donald Skadden following
that visit. Also, read my letter to Ralph Castillo, a copy of which was
made a part of my May 9th set of letters to IRS, which I sent to you as
a bound copy.
I am also enclosing: 4, my letter to Lawrence H. Tribe because it
discusses some of the questions I have, which seem to be the questions
of many Americans, about how IRS can be doing the things it is doing
to Americans, if our constitution has any meaning for us in terms of
giving us certain rights.
Since my printer just ran out of ink I am going to take fifty dollars and
go buy two more cartridges, right this minute. Then I am going to buy
another hundred dollars worth of stamps. Tomorrow, when I am
certain that I have covered all the salient points I meant to cover, I will
add a copy of this letter, and its enclosures, to the bound copy I have
been sending out, and have ten copies of it printed for mailing in the
next few days.
Who am I mailing to? All different people, from well known people I
see on Charlie Rose and The News Hour/to people in businesses
whose products I like, to people who may never ever be on telly, but
who, I think, will find the issues I am raising to be of interest, that is,
people whom I have met and liked and who have understood, when I
have mentioned it, the problem with IRS.
I will also enclose for you, 5. a copy of Merrill McLoughlin's letter
saying my letter to David Gergen, 6. and its enclosures, 7. and 8, my
letters to Montel Williams and to Secretary Cisneros, "have been read
with interest."
7/12/96 I was unable to finish this letter yesterday, partially because I
feel as if you will ignore it, and partially because I feel as if none of the
copies I send out will do any substantial good. I feel as if no one will
credit what I am saying until I am dead. Certainly one of our local
television reporters told me that, that I wasn't news, when I wanted to
have a moment on April 15th to tell viewers to start thinking about the
options they will have when it comes to changing our system of
taxation, and that I wouldn't be news until I was dead. While I was
unable to finish this letter yesterday, I wrote some final letters, to be
mailed on my final trip to the post boxes. I have decided to enclose in
my final letters, a photo of me, so that I don't just throw away the
photos I have of me as I continue to empty my home,and, so that
people to whom I've written for help, can see what I looked like.
The thing is, I have said that I am willing to die for this cause, and that
is true. I believe that when I am dead, what I am saying will no longer
be ignored. Or, maybe it will be, since all the Congressional people to
whom I've written, and been ignored by, will not be interested in
calling for their own resignations as they called for Janet Reno's in
relation to Waco, or Secretary Perry's in relation to the bombing in
Saudi Arabia... Yes, I have written to Arlen Specter.
You know what I think, that it is not the copies of these letters that I
send to members of Congress, or to famous people, that will make the
difference, but rather, the copies I send to people like me, ordinary
people who believe in what is right. This is not to say that I am not
thankful to U.S. News & World Report, because I am. I am also
thankful to the one, most unlikely, person who saw the April 8th U.S.
News article and responded to me, even though he said he couldn't
help.
Because there is a tremendous fear of IRS, I will have printed, in a few
moments, ten covers for this, added to the other sets of letters included
in my bound copies. Each of the covers will be to a friend, not by
name, but simply to: A Friend,Someone Whom I Have Met and
Grown to Like.
I hope that bound copies are passed around, without recipients fearing
to be associated with me; I have been told, often, how much people
fear IRS.
Sincerely,
Karen Kline
Karen Kline
P.S. Printing the ten copies cost $50 -- Tabs cost
$5.00, and binding will cost another $3.00 or so, per copy --
Page 28 (Preceding), Page 32 (Following)
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