IRS-Stress led to the writing of Bound Letters

When IRS was threatening me daily in the early 90s, I tried every
way I could imagine to get them to see and correct their error. I truly
believed they would correct it. But they did not.

I also thought it was possible to reform IRS.

Believing - as I still do - that the Pen is Mightier than the Sword, I
wrote letters to people asking them to support the change or
influence someone to effect the change.

For example, I found an article naming Robert Rubin's favorite
professor when Rubin was at Harvard. I found the professor's son's
address in Who's Who and wrote him. Believing the truth to be
earthy, I wrote about John Henry, my kitty, whom I feared would
hurt Chrysanthemum, the turtle, in whom he showed great interest.
My perception completely changed one day when John Henry went
to her, rolled over on his back in front of her, either submissive or
relaxed, but in either case friendly. Hoping that with this I had the
son's attention, I begged him to call Robert Rubin because, I said, I
was sure that the Secretary of the Treasury would take a call from
his favorite professor's son; and IRS's abuse of people could be
stopped.

"Bound Letters"began with a group of letters I sent on May 9, 1996,
to then IRS Commissioner, Margaret Milner Richardson. See the tab
below that looks like this:

When, some months later, I had not had a helpful response from the
Commissioner or anyone in IRS or the Treasury, I began binding the
letters and sending them to Congress, etc. to show the spectrum of
authorities to whom I had written for help in correcting an IRS error.

I concluded that if it was effectively impossible to correct an IRS
error, that in fact the behavior that created the problems I was
suffering was not an error, it was abuse.

Basically, I paid my 1984 taxes in 1985 , n evertheless, IRS charged
me penalties and interest for 1984 and levied me for my 1984 taxes
in 1991. And, IRS documents show this.

In 1994, IRS put me out of business as a Realtor, throwing
me into such poverty that I lived without my furnace in winter.

Worse even than being put out of business was the
constant fear IRS caused by calling and threatening me - "We can
take your house. We will take your house."

So, I thought, I will work as hard to reform IRS (I already admitted
to being foolish) as I did at being a Realtor; I won't worry about the
threats or lack of money, because when my house is foreclosed or I
run out of money, I will kill myself. So what can IRS threaten me
with now? Also, I felt sure more people would read my letters if
there was a "life or death" quality to them.

But, the fact is that I felt a vast relief when I took the decision to kill
myself in the event a certain point was reached.

To give you an idea of the vastness, there was a day when I was
driving to Albuquerque in the middle lane, with both the fast and
slow lanes open next to me; a lumbering sixteen wheeler came up
behind me and blew its horn, rather than itself change lanes. I
laughed out loud. I thought, "I'm fighting the IRS, I'm sure not
frightened of a truck."

In that fight, I sent out dozens of "Bound Letters," to the media,
judges, Congressional Committees, a Constitutional Scholar,
members of the Cabinet, former bosses, etc. And after each volley, I
added what had come of the previous mailing.

Because I added to the top, the oldest/earliest letters are at the end.

In terms of IRS correcting their error, nothing came of my letters. In
fact, in 1997 after I filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where you pay
people back, IRS filed a proof of claim for over sixty-six thousand
dollars for the time I had been without heat and eating from my
garden.

Nevertheless, it could be that the sun is setting for the IRS.

I have a page about the Angel of Divine Love's place in this.

Here are some links:
www.GiveMeLiberty.org for We The People, predominantly
Christians addressing the fact government has not answered
significant questions about the legality of the income tax; and
www.ntu.org/ for the National Taxpayers' Union, which, if you pay
taxes, you owe it to yourself to join.

Here is a "Table of Contents" for the Bound Letters:

Page
Cover "Bound Letters"
1         Card I gave to hundreds of people, registering dozens to vote.
2-3      Letter to Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary, 8/21/96
4-7      IRS Tax Accounts with weird bits highlighted
8-9      Letter to Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary, 9/26/96
10-11   Letter to Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary, 8/5/96
12-14   Refund, IRS Style
15-16   1984 IRS Tax Account, printed in 1994
17-18   1984 IRS Tax Account, printed in 1996 (fewer entries)
19-21   IRS Run Around: three Treasury Letters
22-24   Letter to Donald Skadden, Am. Tax Policy Institute
25        Letter to Ralph Castillo, Treasury Inspector from Phoenix

26       My response to Leaf (Leaf's letter: see pages 19-21)
27       Letter to Valerie Lau, Inspector General
28       Return Receipts: Taxpayer Ombudsman
29-31 Letter to Robert Rubin, Treasury Secretary, 7/10/96
32       Letter to Margaret M. Richardson, IRS Commissioner
33       Letter to Am. Association of Suicidology
34-36 Letter to Donald Skadden, Am. Tax Policy Institute
37-39 Letter to Constitutional Scholar, Lawrence Tribe
40       Letter from U.S. News & World Report Editor
41       Letter to David Gergen at U.S. News & World Report
42       Letter to Montel
43-45 Letter to HUD Secretary, Henry Cisneros
46       IRS letter
47-48 Letter to Margaret M. Richardson, IRS Commissioner
49-51 1984 Tax Return, payment check, 1991 Levy for 1984
52-54 Letter to Don Boroughs, U.S. News World Report
55       Letter to F. Whitaker, Chief, IRS Collection Division
56       Letter from Linda Martinez, IRS

57-65 Letter to Margaret M. Richardson, IRS Commissioner
66       Letter to Senator Dole (relating to Card, above)
67-68 U.S.News & World Report uses my IRS experience
69-70 Letter to Bill Meyers, U.S. News & World Report
71-72 Letter to Alice Rivlin, Budget Director for Bill Clinton
73       Letter to Donald Skadden,
74-76 Letter to Ralph Castillo, Treasury Agent
77
78
etc.

There are several more pages to scan and add.