Or, you can Up the Ante by mail. Send to the Sacto.com business address.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does A. Tax Bill mean by "Up the Ante"?

Upping the Ante, means that you 'gift' money to Gerald Klaas, who will then increase the CASH. The bigger the CASH, the larger the number of people who will try to earn it. How big do you think the CASH has to be before every college student in the country is trying to earn it? On TV these days you see people doing all sorts of nutty things trying to earn 50,000 bucks, what do you think it takes to motivate a college student to write a letter to his congressman? Remember, it's obvious that the 16th Amendment was lawfully ratified, it is the law of the land isn't it? Sounds like easy money to me.

Basically, it comes down to making a "sexy" news story. The media has been ignoring what I believe is an absolutely provable case of fraud since 1913. Some people believe it's a grand conspiracy of the "industrial media controlling elites". Personally, I think it's because technicalities of the Constitutional Amendment process don't make a good 30 second sound bite. But hey, some nut wanting to give CASH to anyone who can prove what is "obviously" true...... now that's a 30 second sound bite. And the bigger the CASH the better the story. How big does the CASH have to be before it's a local news story? How big until it's a national news story? I'm pretty sure that if I was offering a million dollars, that congress would be flooded with letters from people trying to exercise their First Amendment right. ... well, that and trying to earn the money.

No. But maybe it won't take a million dollars. Maybe it'll take a thousand dollars, maybe ten-thousand. Who knows? What I do know, is that ten-thousand dollars is only one hundred thousand dimes, and to most Americans, that's a nice piece of change. (Pun intended.) Are you willing to throw in a dime? Hey, I started with twenty bucks, every bit helps. It's gotta be worth something just in entertainment value. "Hey guys, let's watch the Libertarian guy roll dimes!" "Huh, uh, OK."

None. I make no guarantee that can be even remotely construed as a legally binding verbal contract. As far as I'm concerned, you are gifting to me a housewarming present. I plan to use it to fight the good fight and to "Up the Ante". I may use it to buy ads in print or broadcast media, or hire a good tax attorney when I get audited, or I *might* use it to buy new carpeting, I don't guarantee anything. I'll just tell you that I *plan* to "Up the Ante". It is my intention that your gift fall under the definition of "gifts" in the IRS code section on Estate and Gift Taxes. For this reason, I will not accept gifts over $10,000. I'll let you determine if you think I'm sincere. Go find out about me, then make your judgement. You see, I'm just a little bit afraid that if I make any claim that could be in any way even slightly construed as a verbal contract, that the feds would find a way to prosecute me for some kind of financial crime. I don't know, running a lottery, running a Ponzi scheme, not paying quarterly income tax estimates, processing banking transactions across state lines, I don't know, they'd come up with something. Personally, I'd rather not spend 20 years in Levenworth.

Wouldn't you be? Who's butt's on the line here? Which one of us do you think is more likely to get audited this year? Which one of us is more likely to suffer some freak accident in the next six months? I want to make it perfectly clear right now, I do not own any illegal substances or plants, modified firearms, bloody gloves, brass knuckles or other items prohibited from citizen possession and are capable of being planted on a person, in their vehicle, or in their domicile. I do not have any porn, child porn, unlicensed software, or electronic copies of bomb-making instruction manuals, or other "subversive" materials on my computer hard drive. I am not mentally unstable, emotionally distraught, or contemplating suicide. I am very happy with my life. I love my wife, I love my job, I just bought a house on the Pacific coast highway and a BMW convertible to get there. I have a great life.

I'm afraid I don't have a choice. I've been inspired by Bob Schulz of the We The People Foundation. Last summer I watched as he put his life on the line during a hunger strike on Capitol Hill, protesting what he knows to be true about the 16th Amendment, relenting only when the IRS promised to address his questions in a public forum, only to renege when the meeting time came. I feel a moral duty to join in the good fight, to do what I believe my heroes would do. To pledge my life, liberty and sacred honor to the cause of protecting the unalienable rights granted by my Creator. Rights that I believe are enumerated in the 1st, 4th, 5th, 7th and 13th amendments yet currently being trampled for me and all other Americans under justification of the 16th, i.e. The law that never was. So if the feds are going to trample the rights protected by the other amendments, they better be able to prove to me the legal authority, and so far they can't.

Thanks for asking. I need all the help I can get. You can even stay anonymous if you'd like. The way I see it, the only way for this to work, is if this site becomes a "genie out of the bottle" before I suffer some tragic freak accident, and my Internet Service Provider suffers a sudden hard drive failure with mysteriously unrecoverable backup tapes. So I ask you, I implore you, I beg you, to help me out in any of the following ways that fit within your tolerance for risk. I really do believe my life depends on it. There are a lot of very powerful people who may not like it if the "Up the Ante" movement takes off, and Congress starts getting flooded with letters. So even if you think I'm a little nutty, please just humor me, do at least item 1 and item 2 below. If you can tolerate the risk, do more:

1. Print out the mirrors.txt document and hold onto it until you see two national news stories about this issue or this site, or until December 31, 2004, whichever comes first.
2. Tell 2 friends about this site. You can tell more, but please tell at least 2.
3. Send a gift. Even if it's just a dime taped to a postcard. Congress is not going to do anything until they are flooded with constituent mail. Joe Citizen may not normally write to his congressman, but hey, money talks, especially free money just for proving the obvious.
4. Use the Spread the Word Tools to help spread the word.
5. Send a letter to the editor of your local newspaper mentioning the website address http://sacto.com/taxes If you don't have time to write your own, use this one. Just print, sign your name and mail it in.
6. Contact your congressman. Ask for the answers to the We The People Foundation questions. Explain that it's your 1st Amendment right to get a straight answer. If you don't have time to write your own letter, use this one. Just print, sign and mail a copy to your congressman, your two senators, and the president.
7. Become a mirror auditor.
8. Author new "Spread the Word Tools". Whip them up, send them in. ( tools@sacto.com )
9. If you are a webmaster, and already understand the process of mirroring a website, follow the instructions on the copyright page to mirror this site. Please do so only on computers on which you have the right to do so. If you are located in a foreign country, outside the jurisdiction of the US government, I have a special plea for you to mirror the site.

Yes, but not more than $100. Mail whatever you like to the Sacto.com business address, but I intend to exercise due dilligence to make sure that no giver sends me more than the limits defined by the IRS codes dealing with Estate and Gift Taxes. If you send me more than $100 dollars anonymously, I will immediately donate it to a 501(c)(3) charitable organization of my choice.

First, I am right. But Congress won't admit it until they have a new revenue stream in place, and they won't act until there is a "critical mass" of constituents demanding it. The transition may be a little painful, but I predict that Congress will come up with either a National Sales Tax, employer and dividend payer withheld flat tax, tax apportioned to States, or collection of excise and tariffs that will fill the revenue stream. Maybe this time they'll come up with something that doesn't violate so many of the other amendments in order to enforce it.